"Mirror Mirror" - читать интересную книгу автора (Maguire Gregory)

I am a farmer who stole something sacred
I am a monster who let the child go
I am a dog with an unlikely past
I am a hunter who followed the coffin
I am a girl who did something wrong
I am the other side of snow
I am a mirror a mirror am I
Mirror mirror on the wall
Who is the fairest one of all
DO PEOPLEsay that I am both your father and your lover? Let the world, that heap of vermin as ridiculous as they are feeble-minded, believe the most absurd tales about the mighty! You must know that for those destined to dominate others, the ordinary rules of life are turned upside down and duty acquires an entirely new meaning. Good and evil are carried off to a higher, different plane. . . .
Remember this. Walk straight ahead. Do only what you like, as long as it is of some use to you. Leave hesitation and scruples to small minds, to plebeians and subordinates. One consideration alone is worthy of youЧthe elevation of the House of Borgia, the elevation of yourself.

ЧAlexander VIТs speech to Lucrezia Borgia, from Arthur de GobineauТsScшnes historiques de la Renaissance (1877), as quoted inThe Borgias by Ivan Cloulas (1989)
ONE DAYsome Lombard masons working near the cloister of Sta. Maria Nuova just off the Via Appia had opened a sarcophagus and found the body of a young Roman woman of about fifteen, so well preserved that it seemed alive. A crowd had gathered around and admired the girlТs rosy skin, her half-open lips revealing very white teeth, her ears, her black lashes, dark, wide-open eyes, and beautiful hair, done in a knot . . .

ЧThe Borgias, ibid.
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Mirror mirror on the wall...
Epigraphs
The roofs of Montefiore
1502
The name of the world
Lago Verde
What they told her, what she saw
DonТt leave, donТt follow
A pack of dirty thieves
Trouble and his sister
I am a girl who did no wrong
Cesare
Lucrezia
I am a woman who slept with my father the Pope
What I saw then
I am a rock whose hands have appetites
A moment ago
A stroll in the country
Under the twists of thornbank
What lies in the mirrorPrince DschemТs secret
The three eyes of God
The vision in San Francesco
1506
Bianca awake
Shades of rock
I am a gooseboy or am I a goose
Mirrormirror
I am a hunter who cannot kill
Bring me her heart carved from her chest
Interview with an assassin