"Ursula K. LeGuin - The Visionary" - читать интересную книгу автора (Le Guin Ursula K)

turned to tears. She said. "You were always ahead of me, going ahead of me!"
I had never known that she envied me. It made me sad to know it, and yet I wanted to laugh at the
way we waste our feelings. "Somebody has to open the door!" I said. I showed her the people who were
coming into the room, the kind of people I used to see when I was a young child. I knew they were
indeed my kin, but I did not know who they were. I asked Milk, "Who are they?"
She was bewildered at first and could not see well, and complained. The people began to speak, and
after a while she answered them. Sometimes they spoke this language, and sometimes I did not

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understand what they said; but she answered them eagerly.
When she grew tired, they went away quietly, and I helped her to bed. As she began to go to sleep, I
saw a little child come and lie down beside her. She put her arms around it. Every night after that until
Milk died in the winter, the child came to her bed to sleep.
Once I spoke of it, saying, "your daughter." Milk looked at me with that whipping look in her one
good eye. She said, "Not my daughter. Yours."
So I keep that house now, with the daughter I never bore, the child of my first love, and with others of
my family. Sometimes when I sweep the floor of that house, I see the dust in a shaft of sunlight, dancing
in curves and spirals, flickering.




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