"William Goldman - The Ghost and The Darkness" - читать интересную книгу автора (Goldman William)

Patterson and Starling, filthy, sit together. Starling has nodded off.
Patterson has a book open in his lap-

-we can tell there are drawings of African animals- not all that
accurate.

Now Patterson's eyes close and he sleeps.

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THE TRAIN POUNDING THROUGH THE NIGHT.

Stokers shovel coal. They are exhausted but they keep at it.

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PATTERSON. WAKING IN THE CAR, RUBBING HIS EYES. IT'S DAWN.

He stares out-

-and from his face it's clear something special has happened. And now,
at last-

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SOMETHING SPECIAL- and what it is, of course, is Patterson's first view
of the Africa of his imagination.

Because the desert has ended, and now there are grasses and trees and
one more thing-

-bursts of animals. On both sides of the train.

A flock of birds materializes here, a cluster of gazelles doing there
amazing leap there.

Patterson is like a kid in a candy store.

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PATTERSON AND STARLING, back outside in the engine seat again. Starling
points-

STARLING
Aren't they amazing?

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WHAT HE'S POINTING AT: Some giraffes running along, their absurd shape
suddenly graceful as they eat up the ground in incredibly long strides.