"Leo Frankowski - Copernicks Rebellion" - читать интересную книгу автора (Frankowski Leo)

his company. But screaming 'patricide' when he got a few orders
canceled ... Well, that's just not how the game's played."
"Well, in any event, Heinrich Copernick is retiring. He doesn't even
own any stock in the company anymore."
"Yeah? Well, you mention that around and you won't hit so many
snags. But don't do it until tomorrow, Lou."
"Why not?"
"So I can sell my Copernicus stock before the bottom falls out of it!"
The senator stood. "Well, I got to git. But you take yourself over to
Daisey's tomorrow."
"I'll do that. Better still, how about if I pick you up at your house and
drive you over there? You could show me those college photos."
"Sure. See you at five thirty." The senator hobbled away cautiously.


Von Bork arrived at 5:29:59 in a nine-hundred-dollar casual suit.
"Good afternoon, Moe."
"Lou, boy! Come in." The senator looked down at his own
housecoat and slippers. "Been taking it a bit easy today."
"Yes, sir. I understand."
"Quit 'sirring' me. And what the hell do you mean, you 'understand'?"
"I-I went out with a nurse last night. One of Dr. Cranford's."
"Good man, Cranford. Go to him myself occasionally. You don't
mean that pretty little redhead he's got running around his front office?"
The senator was adept at getting people off unpleasant subjects.
"Yes, Moe. She told me. About you."
"What! She has no business talking about other people's lives!"
"She has been a fan of yours all her life. She was so broken up, she
had to tell somebody."
 "Listen, boy. She didn't tell you nothing. And you didn't hear nothing.
And you ain't going to say nothing, either! You hear me, boy?"
"Anything you say, sir. I'm not your enemy."
"I know that, boy. And old Lou is my best friend. It's just that if
word of this got around, my effectiveness in the Senate would be over."
"I understand, Moe."
"I doubt that. I'm afraid of dying... But it isn't really that. Life hasn't
been worth much since my wife died. It's just that I hate leaving when
there's so much to do."
"No chance of an organ transplant?"
"Would be if it was only one organ. But Cranford says that just
about every organ in my body is shot. Replacing any one of them would
be too much of a strain on the rest. I guess that some people just grow
old faster than other people."
"It doesn't have to be that way, Moe."
"Growing old and dying is a natural part of life." The senator was
staring at the floor.
"So is shitting in the woods. But that doesn't mean that we have to
do it."
"What are you talking about?"
"Rejuvenation, Moe."