"Thomas M. Disch - In Xanadu" - читать интересную книгу автора (Disch Thomas M)

which she returned to her contracted afterlife and her service as a damsel with a dulcimer. Twang! Twang! O ciel! O
belle nuit! Not that she had any notion of some higher destiny for herself, or sweeter pleasuresтАФexcept the one that
all the poets
agreed on: Lethe, darkness, death, and by death to say we end the humdrum daily continuation of all our
yesterdays into all our tomorrows.
The thought of it filled her with a holy dread, and she took up the silver hammers of her dulcimer and
began, once again, to play such music as never mortal knew before.