"Clark, Brian - The Man Who Walked On The Ceiling" - читать интересную книгу автора (Clark Brian)

dropped in on a church picnic."
"Good god."
"Exactly what the priest said."

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Saturday. 11.33 pm.
It was dark, and George was sprawled face down on
something hard and rough. His head and body ached, his nose
hurt. He sniffed and tasted blood. George moaned, struggled
to his knees and rose unsteadily to his feet. He wanted
something to wipe his nose, but his shorts had no pockets.
Again he sniffed.
"Whad happerd? Where ab I--?"
As his eyes adjusted, he saw a pale, horizontal sliver
of light low to his right. Closer, was something shiny on
the floor. He knelt down and ran his hand over a round,
smooth object which had a small knurled projection at the
top. He stood again. There was a wall, and what he thought
was a picture hung very low on the wall. He shuffled toward
the picture, stooped, and made out the faint grid of a
calendar. But why was the picture below the calendar instead
of above it, as it should be? He peered closer. Of course.
Some idiot had hung it upside down.
Upside--?
George whimpered as he turned around and then forced
himself to look up. Unmistakable, even in the faint light,
his bed clung incongruously to the ceiling.
"No," he said. "Can't be--"
He fell.
He was lucky. He tucked his head down as he fell, or he
would probably have broken his neck as he landed on the edge
of the mattress and bounced to the floor.
"Can't be," he muttered, numbly repeating himself like
a broken record as he pulled himself to his feet, staggered
across the room and thumbed the light switch. Above him, a
crack which extended across half the ceiling. It started
near the light fixture above his bed and ended just above
the window. There was an ugly dark spot where the crack
started. George grabbed a tissue from the bedside table and
dabbed it against his nose. It came away touched with
scarlet.
Now he remembered.
He did it.
He had walked on the ceiling!

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"He was already dead when he hit? So if it wasn't the
sudden stop at the end, what the hell did kill him?