"Simon Ings - The Wedding Party" - читать интересную книгу автора (Ings Simon)

So I am careful, and I resist the temptation to carry too much at one
go, and within about fif-teen muddy minutes I have found what I am looking
for.

Two more trips and IтАЩm done. In they go, one after another, and the
colors released, as the oily sheen closes over each bag, are the same as
you find on those maps, which pick out countries in different pastel colors.

Is the hole deep enough?

The risk is in running, if you can call it running.

The risk is in moving, and in being moved.

Each moonless night, hulks registered in Cam-bodia ply the seaways
from Lebanon to Syria to Cyprus. Fishing boats from Somalia run aground
on the beaches of Mocha; they run aground, or they sink.

Snakeheads throw women into the sea after their children, a mile from
the Spanish shore. Then they torch their own ship.

Dozens of would-be migrants drown off the coasts of Italy and Spain
each year as they attempt the crossing from the Balkans or North Africa.

So much horror, so much desireтАФsooner or later it stalls,
bottlenecked at the Red Cross camp at Sangatte.

One hundred and fifty people a night are caught trying to travel
illegally through the Channel Tun-nel. Some hide inside goods wagons,
breathing through hosepipes in a hopeless attempt to evade the carbon
dioxide detectors. Others ride on the outside of the trains, wrapped in foil to
keep them warm. Still others cram themselves into tiny com-partments
beneath the floors of passenger coaches, barely inches above the live
rails.

February this year. An Iraqi Kurd dies after leaping twenty feet from a
bridge onto the roof of a goods trainтАФonly to slip and fall across an
elec-trified rail.

19th June 2001. Six Russians steal a speedboat in Calais, discover
that the engineтАЩs missing, and elect to set out anyway, paddling it across
one of the worldтАЩs busiest shipping lanes.

31st July 2001. Two Lithuanian refugees cross the Channel on
childrenтАЩs air mattresses. More than ten hours pass before theyтАЩre picked
up. They even have luggage.

The gates are swinging shut around Europe. The nets are
tighteningтАФmeshes of infrared and ultrasound. Dogs. Carbon dioxide
wands.