"R. A. Lafferty - Stories 1" - читать интересную книгу автора (Lafferty R A)

139a. Funnyfingers
139b. Cabrito
140. Horns On Their Heads
143. Berryhill
*145. Thou Whited Wall
*150. Fall of Pebble Stones
151. Quiz Ship Loose
152. Bequest of Wings

file E

*153. Bright Coins In Never-Ending Stream
*154. Selenium Ghosts of the Eighteen-Seventies
155. Splinters
165. Lord Torpedo, Lord Gyroscope
170. The Only Tune That He Could Play
*175. You Can't Go Back
179. Square and Above Board
180. Ifrit
184. Thieving Bear Planet
185. Golden Gate
*186. This Boding Itch
187. Tongues of the Madagora
*188. Make Sure the Eyes Are Big Enough
189. Marsilia V.
*190. One-Eyed Mocking-Bird
227. Magazine Section
240. Grey Ghost: A Reminiscence
245. Le Hot Spot

THE SIX FINGERS OF TIME

He began by breaking things that morning. He broke the glass of
water on his night stand. He knocked it crazily against the opposite wall
and shattered it. Yet it shattered slowly. This would have surprised him if
he had been fully awake, for he had only reached out weakly for it.
Nor had he wakened regularly to his alarm; he had wakened to a
weird, slow, low booming, yet the clock said six, time for the alarm. And
the low boom, when it came again, seemed to come from the clock.
He reached out and touched it gently, but it floated off the stand
at his touch and bounced around slowly on the floor. And when he picked it
up again it had stopped, nor would shaking start it.
He checked the electric clock in the kitchen. This also said six
o'clock, but the sweep hand did not move. In his living room the radio clock
said six, but the second hand seemed stationary.
"But the lights in both rooms work," said Vincent "How are the
clocks both stopped? Are the receptacles on a separate circuit?"
He went back to his bedroom and got his wristwatch. It also said
six; and its sweep hand did not sweep.
"Now this could get silly. What is it that would stop both