"Levy, Robert J - Jack Stacey ASBR" - читать интересную книгу автора (Levy Robert J)

"No," I said, perhaps as much to myself as to her. "My work is done. There are
books out there, sweetheart, thousands of them-- hardbound, soft-cover,
mass-market, trade -- and they're waiting for you. And there are other poor saps
who've lost the love of literature. They need me."

"You're. . . such a lonely man, Jack."

"It goes with the territory."

She stood abruptly, a single tear brimming her eyelid. She gave me a final,
lingering glance -- one that spoke, well, volumes. Then she turned on her heels
and walked out of my life forever.