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



Toward certain death.

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Until the phuvnthus snatched us up.

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So, here I am, swallowed by a metal whale, ruled by cryptic silent beings, ignorant whether my friends still live or if I am alone. Merely crippled, or dying.

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Do my captors have anything to do with starship landings in the mountains?

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Are they a different enigma, rising out of Jijo's ancient past? Relics of the vanished Buy ur perhaps? Or ghosts even older still?

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Answers seem scarce, and since I've finished recounting the plummet and demise of Wuphon's Dream, I daren't waste more precious paper on speculation. I must put my pencil down, even if it robs my last shield against loneliness.

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All my life I've been inspired by human-style books, picturing myself as hero in some uttergloss tale. Now my sanity depends on learning to savor patience.

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To let time pass without concern.

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To live and think, at last, just like a hoon.

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ASX

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YOU MAY CALL ME ASX.

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You, manicolored rings, piled in a high tapered heap, venting fragrant stinks, sharing the victual sap that climbs our common core, or partaking in memory wax, trickling back down from our sensory peak.

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