"Robin Hobb & Steven Brust - The Gypsy" - читать интересную книгу автора (Hobb Robin)

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PROLOGUE

LATE AUTUMN, HALF MOON, WAXING

/ hope you don't mind

If I rest inside your door

Please forgive the snowy footprints

I'm tracking on your floor.

"RED LIGHTS AND NEON"

Doom teka teka teka doom teka tek.
Doom teka teka teka doom teka tek.
Doom teka teka teka doom teka tek..
Doom teka teka teka doom teka tek.
There is something about the sound of the tambou-
rine.

The zils rattle or ring in the same tones and pitches
as the kettles in which you heat the water or stew the
meat, and the calfskin head that is as old as Nagy-
papa will predict the rain by saying dum or the dry-
ness by saying doooooom. When the tambourine is
played well, the feet move on wings of their own, and
the heart leaps with them, while the lips/ distant ob-
servers above, cannot help but smile a little/ no mat-
ter how somber the mood. This is why the dance and
the laughter are one, and whoever says different is
either deluded or in the service of You Know Who.
And You Know Who has many servants.
Some are weak, some are strong. Some need guid-

2 THE OYPSY

ance day by day; others, well/ others can work their
evil on their own, and bring more souls into the sway.
For example, there is the Fair Lady, Luci, who—

No. We will not dwell on that now, there is plenty

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