"Vonnegut, Kurt - Galapagos" - читать интересную книгу автора (Vonnegut Kurt)

_Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!_
_I know whose love would follow me still,_
_Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!_
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)


and


_In the dark womb where I began_
_My mother's life made me a man._
_Through all the months of human birth_
_Her beauty fed my common earth._
_I cannot see, nor breathe, nor stir,_
_But through the death of some of her._
John Masefield (1878-1967)


and


_Lord, who ordainest for mankind_
_Benignant toils and tender cares!_
_We thank Thee for the ties that bind_
_The mother to the child she bears._
William Cullen Bryant
(1794-1878)


and


_Honor thy father and thy mother; that thy days_
_may be long upon the land which the Lord thy_
_God giveth thee._
The Bible


The father of Akiko's daughter was the oldest of the Captain's children, Kamikaze, only thirteen years old.









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