"Paul J. McAuley & Kim Newman - In Dreams" - читать интересную книгу автора (Mcauley Paul J)

Blue Monday
Sambada por mujeros.

Everything is crucially dependent on the T and A zones. Yah, you got
it. Tits and Ass.

The T Zone. You got a mirror? Then get a mirror. Strip off. Yes,
everything. All you going to be wearing come Fat Tuesday is gloves and
boots and black velvet G-string. The Five of Spades look. Cellulite? No
worries, there will always be someone worse off than you. Roll your
shoulders; left, then right. The idea is to get each breast to describe its own
separate, complementary orbit.

The A Zone. As above, but with hips rather than shoulders, and - here
is the bit that marks the true street sambadera from the exhibitionists in
from the suburbs or up from the projects - the A zone has to work in
contra-rotation to the T Zone. They reckon it takes half a year just to get
the basic rhythm. When you can give the impression you are having an
orgasm sitting on top of a thousand-speed spin washing machine, you are
close. It helps if you smile. Anything that makes you feel more confident
wiggling your T and A in front of several million spectators and eleven
satellite channels while dressed in a postage stamp on a piece of elastic
has got to help.

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Her name is Ros’a’Jericho.

She is an apostle of the Tucurombé.

They are members of a kairis.

A kairis is a group of (usually) four individuals who may, or may not,
previously know each other, called together by the Tucurombé to achieve
some divinely ordained purpose.

The purpose of this kairis is to find a guitarristo to lead the Tres
Milagros parade, the theme of which this year is the New Gods.

The Tucurombé, of whom this La Miranda who saved Annunciate
from the Lobos is a member, are the new gods.

Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. Kid Annunciato’s head is spinning. He
is only a malnourished undereducated favela boy, after all.

Ros’a’Jericho lives with the old black man, who is known as El
Batador, in a house on Tres Milagros Hill. They do not sleep with each
other. Annunciato has heard of Tres Mila-gros Hill. Most people in this city
have heard of Tres Milagros Hill, the one with the big white letters on top of
it that no one can understand, the one where all the weirds, and freaks, and