"L'Engle, Madeleine - Many Waters" - читать интересную книгу автора (L'Engle Madeleine)

1 ^ Virtual particles
and virtual unicorns

A sudden snow shower put an end to hockey practice.

"We can't even see the puck," Sandy Murry shouted
across the wind. "Let's go home." He skated over to the
side of the frozen pond, sitting on an already snow-covered
rock to take off his skates.

There were calls of agreement from the other skaters.
Dennys, Sandy's twin brother, followed him, snow gather-
ing in his lashes, so that he had to blink in order to see
the rock. "Why do we have to live in the highest, coldest,
windiest spot in the state?"

Hoots of laughter and shouted goodbyes came from the
other boys. "Where else would you want to live?" Dennys
was asked.

Snow was sliding icily down the inside of his collar.
"Baki. Fiji. Someplace warm."

One of the boys knotted his skate laces and slung his
skates around his neck. "Would you really? With all those
tourists?"

"Yeah, and jet-setters crowding the beach."

"And beautiful people."

4 -^s MANY WATERS

"Andlitterbugs."

One by one the other boys drifted off, leaving the twins.
"I thought you liked winter," Sandy said.

"By mid-March, I'm getting tired of it."

"But you wouldn't really want to go to some tourists^
paradise, would you?"

"Oh, probably not. Maybe I would have, in the olden
days, before the population explosion. I'm famished. Race
you home."

By the time they reached their house, an old white farm-
house about a mile from the village, the snow was begin-
ning to let up, though the wind was still strong. They went