"Suzette Haden Elgin - What The EPA Don't Know Won't Hurt Them" - читать интересную книгу автора (Elgin Suzette Haden)

"It's got an interesting shape to it, Johnny Beau," she answered, and
she
gave him a sharp look over the top of her glasses. "You think it's
interesting enough to call me out here in the street to admire it?"
"Granny," Johnny Beau said solemnly, "what if Lee Wommack would just
move
one of those junk cars in his yard over a couple of feet - say that red
Rambler that he's got lying up against the garage? If he'd just move
that
one over and lay this piece beside it, aimed toward town? You take a
good
look now, and see if you don't agree with me!"
The old woman went over to the truck and poked at the pickup with one
crookedy finger, and said hmmmmmmph. She walked around to the other
side
and poked it again, and said hmmmph some more. And then she backed way
off
and climbed up onto a fence to get a better look at what she'd been
poking, and she began nodding her head.
"Ah yes," she said. "I see, boys. I do see. And I do believe you're
right."
"Granny," Delmer offered, "you realize that's damned near the last
piece
we need?" It made him feel strange, saying that. When something has
been
more than a hundred years in the building, the idea that it's just
about
finished doesn't lie easy in the mind.
"Yes," she said. "I can see that it is."
"And you'll tell Mr. Wommack?"
Granny nodded. "I'll speak to Lee Wommack," she said. "Be happy to.
However - there's something that's got to be done first."
Johnny Beau and Delmer sighed; they were used to that, too. There was
always something else to be done, any day you had to bring the Granny
into
a matter. They'd been expecting it. They said only, "Yes, ma'am,
Granny,"
and looked attentive.
"It's the right shape," she told them. "Just exactly the right shape.
But
it's mightily ugly, you know. It's full of ugly and running over with
it."

"Well...." Delmer jammed his hands deep into the pockets of his jeans.
"There was a couple of people inside when the train hit it."
"Uh-huh. And a little child?"
"Might could be."
"You didn't ask?"
"No ma'am."
"Next time, ask."