"Alex Irvine - Akhenaten" - читать интересную книгу автора (Irvine Alexander C)

The last time, she shuffled slowly along the route she had long since learned by touch of fingertip and
echo of breath. She found him leaning against a statue of himself, and she imagined sculpture and subject
training their gazes over Egypt and what lay beyond. "Once," she said, "you told me that every star is a
sun."

She felt him nod.

"Which one is your home?"

He laughed softly, and his breath wheezed in his throat. "Aten is my home," he said.

Tiye jabbed him with a horny fingernail. "Which?"

"This one," Akhenaten said. "All the stars are the same star, and all the rivers are the same river, and all
the directions are the same direction. But none of them lead home."

She was thinking about that the next year, a year in which Moses Miryam's brother killed a man and fled
east to Midian, the year in which she died in Akhetaten with her Pharaoh, who had been her lover, who
had once staggered her with a gaze that spoke of infinity.

ILLUSTRATION (BLACK & WHITE)
Alex Irvine's previous stories for us include the dark fantasy "Rosetti Song" and the near-future s/story
"Intimations of Immortality." His latest story is a very different proposition entirely. Mr. Irvine reports that
his first novel, A Scattering of Jades, is due to be published next year and he is busily working on a
variety of projects, both academic and literary.