"Brin, David - Uplift 5 - Infinity's Shore" - читать интересную книгу автора (Brin David)

Emerson cannot help himself. It is his nature to seize any possible excuse for hope. As the horses pound Jijo's ancient turf, their cadence draws him down a thread of familiarity, recalling rhythmic music quite apart from the persistent dirge of woe.

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tarantara, tarantara

tarantara, tarantara

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Under insistent stroking by that throbbing sound, something abruptly clicks inside. His body reacts involuntarily as unexpected words surge from some dammed-up corner of his brain, attended by a melody that stirs the heart. Lyrics pour reflexively, an undivided stream, through lungs and throat before he even knows 'that he is singing.

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"Though in body and in mind,

We are timidly inclined,

And anything but blind,

To the danger that's behind-

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{tarantara, tarantara]

{tarantara!]

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{tarantara, tarantara]

{tarantara!]"

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While his steed bounds ahead, new aches join the background music of his life-raw, chafed thighs and a bruised spine that jars with each pounding hoofbeat.

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taranta, taranta, taranta-tara

taranta, taranta, taranta-tara

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Guilt nags him with a sense of duties unfulfilled, and he grieves over the likely fate of his new friends on Jijo, now that their hidden colony has been discovered. And yet . . .

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