"Stephen Lawhead - Dream Thief" - читать интересную книгу автора (Lawhead Stephen)

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stephen R. Lawhead
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for Harold
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"The center of every man's existence is a dream."
G.K. Chesterton




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. . . . DREAM THIEF . . . .
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. GOTHAM. .
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1


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THE MAN IS SLEEPING. The huddled mass of nerves and sinews rests easily on the bed; outwardly
there is no move-ment. Inwardly, the brain hums with random activity. A mainte-nance force
continually monitors the man's internal activity by way of a vast trunkline of nerves.
At rest the network is dark. Momentary sparks of electrical impulses shunt their messages to and
fro along the axons. At the outer fringes, the individual beads of light link up and begin their
journey up the spinal column like midnight trains heading for the city. Eventually they arrive and
send their impulses off into the tangled circuitry of the brain where each flash, briefly noted,
dies out. Except for these momentary pinpoint flares, the system is dark and quiet.
Gradually, the sparks increase their activity; more messages are coming in, flooding the circuits.
The lines begin to hum, glowing with energy. Impulses of light speed to their destination deep
within the labyrinth, illuminating their passage. Soon the darkened webwork is alive with light-
arcing, tingling, pulsing, throbbing with electricity. The man is waking.