"Barry N. Malzberg and Jack Dann - The Starry Night" - читать интересную книгу автора (Malzberg Barry N)

what is happening outside. It is just like the painting. The stars nit."

"You can draw this, child?"

"Oh yes," Rachel says. "I have it at home. I tried to make it just like this. The stars
are exploding. They look like little puffs of fire. If I had my sketchpad I could show
you."

"Transubstantiation," the man says again; the word is very long:
trans-sub-stanch-ee-ation. "That I would live to see this. To see this and all that it
was."

Rachel thinks very hard. If she thinks hard enough, she knows that she will be able
to leave this place; but maybe not; she is not sure тАж she is not sure of anything. She
is truly scared now. The stars are leaping like wild animals. There is a big star ringed
in white fire that is getting larger, moving closer.

The space car is shaking.

"I want to go home," Rachel cries. "I want to go home right now."



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In Arles

Vincent had known even at this tranquil time that it would end in the asylum, in holy
entrapment, in the midst of fires he could not see. Torn aside, that curtain of the
heavens. But it was too late, too late for anything now but to transcribe what he saw
so that they would know, so that he would know how the fire would come.

In his sleep a small solemn angel holding a sketchpad drifts through his perception,
but he is unable to reach her тАж unable to touch her.


The End



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