"Terry Dowling - La Profonde" - читать интересную книгу автора (Dowling Terry)

Finally Jay did look across at the man trudging with him between the
two sets of tracks. тАЬWhoтАЩs we?тАЭ

тАЬAw, hell, Jay. What does it matter? It was just something that came
along, you know? Never thought about it too much.тАЭ

тАЬEnough to get away with it for a while. Ruin the company. I trusted
you.тАЭ

тАЬYeah, well, some of us arenтАЩt as trusting as you, okay? We donтАЩt light
up as bright. We try, but it doesnтАЩt always happen. You made it easy.тАЭ

тАЬThere was Cally. Who else?тАЭ

тАЬHell, Jay. ItтАЩs been three years! Why this now?тАЭ

тАЬBrian had to be in on it. Those emails make that pretty clear. And
Mark, doing the accounts. You needed him. Barbara, Ashley and Hiro were
mentioned.тАЭ
 тАЬChristine knows where I am, Jay.тАЭ

тАЬI grew up on a railway line, did you know that, Dee?тАЭ

тАЬHow the hell would I know that?тАЭ Derwent said, thrown by the change
of subject and forgetting for a moment how this had to be played.

тАЬThat was out in Leederville. As kids, friends and I would walk the
tracks between Leederville and Quinton, just exploring, you know. Always
loved what you found along railway lines.тАЭ

тАЬIs that right?тАЭ

тАЬNothing forces patterns on a landscape more than a railway. All
those lines and curves. No barriers. Hills cut away, fields divided. Rivers
hardly stand a chance. ItтАЩs all so precise, so artificial. Then it changes. It
doesnтАЩt stay like that. ItтАЩs almost as if the intrusion is resented, worn away.тАЭ

тАЬResented? ThatтАЩs a bit much.тАЭ

тАЬNot at all. ItтАЩs the elevator effect. People get in an elevator. ItтАЩs really
just a little room that moves up and down over a tremendous drop and
takes them to where theyтАЩre going. Most people donтАЩt think of using an
elevator in terms of shafts and counterweights and terrible drops. ItтАЩs just a
room that moves and does a job. Same with railways. People notice the
trains, sure, maybe the tracks while a train is on them, but what about when
a train isnтАЩt passing? The tracks are overlooked, forgotten. All that
precision, that regimentation gets blurred, roughed up. Pretty soon those
railside corridors become wilderness, bits of a rogue landscape. People
looking out train windows always look beyond the corridor, have you
noticed?тАЭ