"Philip Jose Farmer - The Image Of The Beast" - читать интересную книгу автора (Farmer Phillip Jose)

was garish with beauty patches, rouge, powder, green and red and
black and azure
paint around the eyes and a curl of powder-blue down her cheeks,
artificial
eyelashes, and a tiny golden nose-ring. A green robe, tied at her
neck and
waist, was so thin that she might as well have been naked. Despite
which, she
untied the cords about the neck and waist and slid the robe off and
showed that
she could be even more naked.
The camera moved downward and closer. The hollow at the base of
the neck was
deep and the bones beneath hinted at exquisiteness. The breasts were
full but
not large, slightly conical and up-tilted, with narrow and long,
almost sharp,
nipples. The breasts were hung upon a large rib cage. The belly sank
inward; she
was skinny about the hips, the bones stuck out just a little. The
camera went
round, and she pivoted--Childe could not tell which because the
camera was so
close to her and he had no reference point. Her buttocks were like
huge
unshelled soft-boiled eggs.
The camera traveled around her, showing the narrow waist and
ovoid hips and
then turned so that it was looking up toward the ceiling--which was
covered with
a drape-like material the color of a broken blood-vessel in a
drunkard's eye.
The camera glanced up her white thigh; light was cast into the hollow
between
the legs--she must have spread her legs then--and there was the
little brown eye
of the anus and the edge of the mouth of her vagina. The hairs were
yellow,
which meant that the woman had either dyed her head hairs or her
pubic hairs.
The camera, still pointing upward, passed between her legs--which
looked
like the colossal limbs of a statue now--and then traveled slowly
upward. It
straightened out as it rose and was looking directly at her pubes.
These were
partly covered by a triangular cloth which was taped on. Childe did
not know
why. Modesty certainly was not the reason.
He had seen this shot before, but he braced himself. The first