"Greg Egan - Worthless (2)" - читать интересную книгу автора (Egan Greg)

map, walked out to the highway, and hitch-hiked all the way home.
That was your last song -- before the Azciak people fixed the glitch, corrected
the aberration. The official story (from the PR release, to the torrent of
instant "biographies", to the sleeve notes of the tasteful, black-lined,
Memorial Collected Works boxed set): the lead singer of Worthless had overdosed
on vodka and Nembutal, victim of a broken heart. I still have photos from the
magazines of crowds of sobbing fans, carrying "your" picture aloft.
I never joined those tearful mobs. I never even mourned you in private. I don't
know if you're still in there, somewhere; concealed, transformed,
unrecognisable. It's not impossible, is it? (After all, would you recognise me?)
And if you're not? If you really have gone forever?
Then here I am again. Caring about the wrong things, again.
And talking to myself.



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┬й Greg Egan 1992, 1998
This story first appeared in the anthology In Dreams, edited by Kim Newman and
Paul J McAuley, Gollancz, 1992.




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