"Ursula K. LeGuin - Ekumen 07 - Four Ways to Forgiveness" - читать интересную книгу автора (Le Guin Ursula K)

denial that the war is going on, a shadow of the

shadow, a doubled unbelief.
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So as the cloud-shadows swept over the marshes

and the page of the book open on her lap, she

sighed and closed her eyes, thinking, "I am a liar."

Then she opened her eyes and read more about the

other worlds, the far realities.



Tikuli, sleeping curled up around his tail in the

weak sunshine, sighed as if imitating her, and

scratched a dreamflea. Gubu was out in the reeds,

hunting; she could not see him, but now and then

the plume of a reed quivered, and once a marsh hen

flew up cackling in indignation.



Absorbed in a description of the peculiar social

customs of the Ithsh, she did not see Wada till he

was at the gate letting himself in. "Oh, you're here

already," she said, taken by surprise and feeling

unready, incompetent, old, as she always felt with

other people. Alone, she only felt old when she was

overtired or ill. Maybe living alone was the right

thing for her after all. "Come on in," she said, get-