"Thomas M. Disch - The Prisoner" - читать интересную книгу автора (Disch Thomas M)

“Oh, I know just what it will look like–all the cottages built out of marzipan, and an abbey church from
the 14th century, the rustics brawling in the pub, fishing boats, sunsets. You’ll live in somebody’s
converted toolshed.”

“A gatehouse, actually. I leased it through Chandler &Carr.”

“Who showed you photographs.”

“And a floor plan.”

“Though smallish, it possesses every convenience.”

“A majority, at least.”

“I don’t believe it. It isn’t you. What about yourwork ?”

He paused at this, the first point scored in the game.

“I’ve retired.”

“Idon’t believe it. You? Though, of course, if that’s what you’re supposed tosay . . .”

“It’s been my impression that it’s not at all what I was supposed to say. But I do say it, I have done it, I
am retired.”

“Why, in God’s name?”

“That’s a secret I’ve tucked away in a dresser drawer, behind my stockings.”

Which tied it, one all.

“And the dresser? Off in the rural, implausible solitudes of Pembroke?”

“Still in London, most likely. I only bought it today. That’s why we met here. I’ve been up and down

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Bond Street all day, furnishing the place.”

“Andnot because we’re so convenient to Grosvenor Square?”

“I thought that might make it handier for you.”

“They won’t buy it, you know. You can’t just go and tell them you’ve lost interest in the whole thing,
for heaven’s sake!”

“On the contrary, Liora–youcan .”

“You called me Liora. That was nice of you.”