"Frank Herbert - Destination Void 2 The Jesus Incident" - читать интересную книгу автора (Herbert Brian & Frank)

1. Destination Void
-> 2. The Jesus Incident
3. The Lazarus Effect
4. The Ascension Factor




The Jesus Incident

Frank Herbert
Bill Ransom

1979 (16th printing 1987)




There is a gateway to the imagination you must enter before you are conscious
and the keys to the gate are symbols. You can carry ideas through the gate . .
. but you must carry the ideas in symbols.

-- Raja Flattery, Chaplain/Psychiatrist


SOMETHING WENT "Tick."

He heard it quite distinctly -- a metallic sound. There it went again: "Tick."

He opened his eyes and was rewarded with darkness, an absolute lack of radiant
energy . . . or of receptors to detect energy.

Am I blind?

"Tick."

He could not place the source, but it was out there -- wherever out there was.
The air felt cold in his throat and lungs. But his body was warm. He realized
that he lay very lightly on a soft surface. He was breathing. Something
tickled his nose, a faint odor of . . . pepper?

"Tick."

He cleared his throat. "Anybody there?"

No answer. Speaking hurt his throat.

What am I doing here?

The soft surface beneath him curved up around his shoulders to support his neck