"Nancy Kress - Sex and Violence" - читать интересную книгу автора (Kress Nancy)

тАЬDunno.тАЭ

тАЬWe should study togetherтАФyour notes are better than mine.тАЭ She
smiled at him and tossed her hair. One strand fell into her coffee cup.
Neither of them noticed.

He said, тАЬYeah, letтАЩs study together ... you taking Bio 102 next
semester?тАЭ

тАЬNo, IтАЩm a business major. But I have to pass this or IтАЩm toast.тАЭ

тАЬIтАЩll help you pass.тАЭ Their eyes locked. Pheromones shot out
energetically. [Notes] were [recorded]. The college cafeteria grew warmer.

She said huskily, тАЬWhatтАЩs an amino acid?тАЭ

****

Jim and Emily lay in bed, smiling at each other. Her long hair spread
in silky tentacles across the pillow. She didnтАЩt yet know it, but one of JimтАЩs
sperm had just found one of her eggs and was burrowing inward with
ferocious violence.

тАЬWeтАЩll miss the exam,тАЭ she said.

тАЬScrew the exam.тАЭ

They smiled at each other. This post-coital glow, so strong, must be
love. The attraction between them grew even more intense. [Notes] were
[recorded] at an even more furious pace. Energy from the [recording
process], unprecedented in this star system, reached a critical mass and
flowed outward through all seventeen dimensions of space-time, forward
and backward, at the speed of light. Through space, through time.

Sol grew .00001 degree hotter (Kelvin). The Van Allen Belt shivered.
Thirteen tiny flop transitions occurred in the blink of an eye.

And in the early Precambrian, thirty-two molecules jolted and joined.