"Madeline L' Engle - Time Quartet 04 - Many Waters" - читать интересную книгу автора (L'Engle Madeleine)

and Dad argue about at dinnerтАФpolymers, virtual parti-
cles, quasars, all that stuff."

Sandy looked at his twin. "You mean, you listen?"

"Sure. Why not? You never know when a little useless
knowledge is going to come in handy. Hey, what's this
book? It's about bubonic plague. I'm the one who wants to
be a doctor."

Sandy glanced over. "It's history, not medicine, stupe."

"Hey, why are lawyers never bitten by snakes?" Dennys
asked.

"I don't know. And don't care."

"Well, you're the one who wants to be the lawyer. Come
on. Why do lawyers never get bitten by snakes?"

"I give up. Why do lawyers never get bitten by snakes?"

"Profession-il courtesy."

Sandy groaned. "Very funny. Ha- Ha."

Dennys slathered mustard over a thick slice of ham.
"When I think about the amount of schooling still ahead
of us, I almost lose my appetite."

"Almost."

"Well, not quite."

Sandy opened the refrigerator door, looking for some-
thing else to pile on his sandwich. "We seem to eat more
than the rest of the family put together. Charles Wallace
eaEs like a bird. Well, judging by the amount we spend on

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bird feed, birds are terrible gluttons. But you know what
I mean."

"At least he's settling down in school, and the other kids
aren't picking on him the way they used to."

"He still doesn't look more than six, but half the time
I think he knows more than we do. We're certainly the
ordinary, run-of-the-mill ones in the family."