"Charles de Lint - Sign Here" - читать интересную книгу автора (De Lint Charles)

"The point is, how stupid can you be?"

"Hey, he's going to teach me other stuff. I'm going to be his protege."

"Until you die and he gets your soul."

"Something like that. If I even have a soul."

"The more I think about it, the more I'm betting we do. I mean, why else would the guy ask you to sign it
over to him? But the difference between you and me is, I still own mine."

"I am so screwed."

"Maybe, maybe not. We're smart guys. Maybe we can figure a way out of this. Hell, maybe we can even
come out ahead."

"I'd settle for having my soul back."

"It's not gone yet."

"You know what I mean."

"Let me think on this."

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"So did you ask him how to live forever?"

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"Yeah. He said, if I can't figure it out for myself, then I don't deserve to know. But he showed me
another good trick. All I have to do is concentrate, sort of like you do with the air molecules, except this
is with molecules of time."

"I don't get it."

"It lets you predict the future."

"Get out of here."

"No, really. But it's a bitch. I can only look ten seconds or so ahead and it gives me a headache that
makes a hangover feel good. But it's like the other thing, he said. The more I practice, the easier it'll get
and the farther ahead I can see."

"So you could predict lotteries and horse races and all kinds of crap."