"Gordon R. Dickson - Dragon Knight 02 - The Dragon Knight" - читать интересную книгу автора (Dickson Gordon R)

imagine a curved sheet of darkness, as available as a blackboard to write upon.

тАЬGot it?тАЭ demanded Carolinus.

тАЬI think so,тАЭ answered Jim. тАЬAt least IтАЩve got a feel for the inside of my forehead.тАЭ

тАЬGood!тАЭ said Carolinus. тАЬNow bring up the index.тАЭ

Jim concentrated on his imaginary blackboard; and with another imaginative effort he discovered that
large golden letters were forming against that dark surface; and that they read:

INDEX

тАЬI think IтАЩve got that, too,тАЭ said Jim, squinting at the scene around him, as if that would help focus his
mind on what he was trying to envision.

тАЬVery well,тАЭ said Carolinus, тАЬnow bring up the following, one at a time. Ready?тАЭ

тАЬReady,тАЭ said Jim.
тАЬNotshape,тАЭ said Carolinus.

Jim made some kind of intellectual effort-there was no way he could describe it, but it was somewhat as
if he was trying to remember something that he knew very well. The word INDEX disappeared; and was
replaced by a list of words that scrolled past from the bottom of his forehead up out of sight at the top.
They seemed to keep on zipping past endlessly. He caught a flash of occasional ones-тАЬfat.тАЭ тАЬthin.тАЭ
тАЬelsewhereтАЭ... but none of them made any sense. He assumed that these were somehow attributes of
shape he was looking at. But how to slow down the scrolling, or find what he wanted among them-even
if he knew what he wanted-was a problem that right now teemed absolutely insoluble.

тАЬDragon,тАЭ he heard CarolinusтАЩs voice barking at him. Jim envisioned it.

It was immediately replaced by more words scrolling, now different. Jim picked out тАЬlarge,тАЭ British.тАЭ

тАЬsavageтАЭ...

тАЬArrow,тАЭ Carolinus was commanding.

Jim struggled to obey. After a moment he got a straight line with what looked like the literal broad point
of a clothyard arrow, on the right end of the line he was looking at. The image on the inside of his
forehead now read:

NOTSHAPE DRAGON?

тАЬGot it,тАЭ said Jim beginning to feel a first tendril of pleasure at his own accomplishments. тАЬGot it all so
far. тАШNOT-SHAPE-DRAGON-ARROW-.тАЩ тАЬ

тАЬMe!тАЭ said Carolinus.

тАЬMe,тАЭ echoed Jim, summoning up the word just beyond the point of the arrow on the
forehead-blackboard of his mind.