"Samuel R. Delany - Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" - читать интересную книгу автора (Delaney Samuel R)

Half the people we passed in Times Square recognized him. With his youth, funereal garb, black feet and
ash pale hair, he was easily the most colorful of Singers. Smiles; narrowed eyes; very few actually
pointed or stared.

тАЬJust exactly who is going to be there who might be able to take this stuff off my hands?тАЭ

тАЬWell, Alexis prides himself on being something of an adventurer. They might just take his fancy. And he
can give you more than you can get peddling them in the street.тАЭ

тАЬYouтАЩll tell him theyтАЩre all hot?тАЭ

тАЬIt will probably make the idea that much more intriguing. HeтАЩs a creep.тАЭ

тАЬYou say so, friend.тАЭ

We went down into the sub-sub. The man at the change booth started to take HawkтАЩs coin, then looked
up. He began three or four words that were unintelligible through his grin, then just gestured us through.

тАЬOh,тАЭ Hawk said, тАЬthank you,тАЭ with ingenuous surprise, as though this were the first, delightful time such
a thing had happened. (Two years ago he had told me sagely, тАЬAs soon as I start looking like I expect it,
itтАЩll stop happening.тАЭ I was still impressed by the way he wore his notoriety. The time IтАЩd met Edna
Silem, and IтАЩd mentioned this, she said with the same ingenuousness, тАЬBut thatтАЩs what weтАЩre chosen
for.тАЭ)

In the bright car we sat on the long seat; HawkтАЩs hands were beside him, one foot rested on the other.
Down from us a gaggle of bright-bloused goo-chewers giggled and pointed and tried not to be noticed at
it. Hawk didnтАЩt look at all, and I tried not to be noticed looking.

Dark patterns rushed the window.
Things below the gray floor hummed.

Once a lurch.

Leaning once; we came out of the ground.

Outside, the city tried on its thousand sequins, then threw them away behind the trees of Ft. Tryon.
Suddenly the windows across from us grew bright scales. Behind them the girders of a station reeled by.
We got out on the platform under a light rain. The sign said TWELVE TOWERS STATION.

By the time we reached the street, however, the shower had stopped. Leaves above the wall shed water
down the brick. тАЬIf IтАЩd known I was bringing someone IтАЩd have had Alex send a car for us. I told him it
was fifty-fifty IтАЩd come.тАЭ

тАЬAre you sure itтАЩs all right for me to tag along, then?тАЭ

тАЬDidnтАЩt you come up here with me once before?тАЭ

тАЬIтАЩve even been up here once before that,тАЭ I said. тАЬDo you still think itтАЩsтАжтАЭ

He gave me a withering look. Well; Spinnel would be delighted to have Hawk even if he dragged along a