"Madeline L' Engle - A Ring Of Endless Light" - читать интересную книгу автора (L'Engle Madeleine)

A Ring of Endless Light
i
ii Madeleine L'Engle
A RING OF
ENDLESS
LIGHT
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
NEW YORK
iii Copyright© 1980 by Crosswicks, Ltd.
All rights reserved
Second printing, 1980
Printed in the United States of America
Published simultaneously in Canada by
McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd., Toronto
Designed by Cynthia Krupat
Excerpts from Messengers of God: Biblical Portraits and Legends,by Elie
Wiesel,
translated
by Marion Wiesel, copyright ©1976 by Elie Wiesel. Reprinted by permission of
Random
House, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
L'Engle, Madeleine./ A ring of endless light.
[1. Death-Fiction. 2. Dolphins-Fiction]
I. Title.
PZ7.L5385Ri/ [Fie] / 79-27679 ISBN 0-374-36299-8
iv For Sandra Jordan
v
vi A Ring of Endless Light
1
«*§I saw him for the first time at the funeral.
He stood beside my elder brother, John, and they both had closed, clenched
jaws
and angry eyes. He was as tall as John, and I could see that he was as full
of
grief over
Commander Rodney's death as the rest of us.
I didn't know who he was, but I liked him.
Because he was standing with John, I assumed that he, too, had a summer job
at
the Marine Biology Station, which was housed in half of the Coast Guard
headquarters.
It was a strange place and a strange time to see somebody and know that I
wanted
to meet him, to call him by name. But there was something about him that
struck
me as-to use an old-fashioned word-trustworthy; and that's important in an
untrustworthy world where death can strike when you aren't looking.
This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first
time that I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying