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

Granny Motley cleared her throat.
"Come on, Granny," he said urgently, "tell me what it looks like, and
I'll
go find it, if I have to hit every junkyard and ditch dump and sinkhole
from here to Little Rock! Come on!"
Her lips thinned, and she got That Look, but she made no objection.
Just
started describing the missing piece to him, like he'd asked her to.
It went on and on, while he fidgeted, and the time came when he risked
interrupting her.
"Dammit, Granny!" he protested. "How am I supposed to keep all that in
my
head?"
"I keep it all in mine," she pointed out.
"Well, I can't do it. Can you draw it for me?"
Granny Motley made an exasperated noise.
"Granny," he insisted, "it's important. Don't be ornery at me."
"You're a lot of trouble, Johnny Beau," she said.
"There's a lot at stake," he told her. "I do the best I can."
"You serious?"
"Yes, ma'am. Dead serious."
"Wait a minute, then."
And she reached into her pocket and pulled out a crochet hook and a
hank
of brown yarn. "You watch," she said. "I can't draw the fool thing, but
I
can crochet it." And her fingers went flying, while he waited.
"There," she said finally. "That's it. That's how the last piece would
look."
She held it out to him, and he took it and turned it over and over in
his
hands, marveling.
"Granny," he said slowly, "there isn't anything in this blessed world
that
looks like that!"
"Maybe not before," she said. "But now there is. And you're holding
it."
"But it's got to be metal. And glass. Stuff like that."
"Yes."
"Well, there isn't anything like this made of metal and glass and wire,
Granny. I've been looking since I was just a little ol' kid, day and
night. I never go anywhere that I don't keep my eye peeled, all the
time,
just in case I'll see a piece that goes to the grid. And I know there's
no
piece like that one to be had."
"You've done well, Johnny Beau," she said.
"It's taken me all my life."
"All twenty years of it."
"That's all the life I've got, so far," he said stubbornly. "And I've