"C. L. Moore - Miracle in Three Dimensions" - читать интересную книгу автора (Moore C. L)

Then came full, rich human voices ringing through the wood. Phoebe Templeton in HermiaтАЩs rustling
satin came radiantly into the glade, brushing so close by the watching Silvers that he caught a whiff of her
perfume, felt the touch of her satin skirts. And he knewтАФalmost he knewтАФthat he could put out a hand
and stop her, so warmly real was she at that close range. Her lovely throaty voice called to Lysander
behind her.
And then somehow the forest was slipping away past Abe SilversтАЩ faceтАФsomehow he had the
illusion of walking as if in a dream down an enchanted forest aisle, the dim air quivering with starlight, and
Helena came running and weeping through the trees, stumbling, sobbing the name of Demetrius.
She passed. Silvers started involuntarily as from a swaying branch above him pealed the wild,
half-human laughter of Puck, delicate as the chatter of a squirrel, and down through the air over his very
shoulder, the breeze of his passing fanning SilversтАЩ face, the lithe little goblin sprang.
The scene clouded over as if a mist had been drawn across the moon. Silvers blinked involuntarily,
and when he looked again Titania lay exquisitely asleep on the dew-spangled bank where the wild thyme
grew.
Then through the magic-haunted wood suddenly shrilled a bell. Insistently, metallically it rang. Silvers
glanced about the glades of the forest, trying to locate among the dew-shimmering leaves the source of
that irritating noise. And suddenly the Athenian woods melted like smoke about him. Incredulously he
stared around a big bare studio. It was like waking in bewilderment from a dream so vivid that reality
itself paled beside its memory.
тАЬThe studio wants you on the telephone, Abe,тАЭ said OтАЩByrneтАЩs voice. тАЬHere, wake up! DidnтАЩt you
hear the bell?тАЭ


SILVERS shook himself, laughed sheepishly. тАЬIтАЩm still in Athens,тАЭ he admitted, blinking. тАЬThatтАЩs the
damnedest thing I everтАФstudio, did you say? WhereтАЩs the phone?тАЭ
Thinly over the wire came a worried voice.
тАЬHate to bother you, chief, but I think you ought to know. Anne ActonтАЩs been mumbling around in a
sort of daze for half an hour. The doctor canтАЩt do a thing with her. And Philip Graves passed out on set
and is just kind of whispering to himselfтАФpoetry, it sounds like.тАЭ
Silvers blinked. тАЬD-donтАЩt let the papers get it. IтАЩll be right over.тАЭ
He slammed the telephone back on its cradle and turned blankly to OтАЩByrne.
 тАЬSomethingтАЩs gone wrong with a couple of our actors you stole,тАЭ he said. тАЬIтАЩve got to get back right
away. But listen, BlairтАФyouтАЩve got something! How long will it take you to have some more of these bar
and platform arrangements rigged up? Say a dozen for a starter. IтАЩd like to have our board see it as soon
as possible. This is going to be the most tremendous thing that ever happened in motion pictures. When
can you have things ready to show the board?тАЭ
тАЬIтАФI donтАЩt know, Abe. SomehowтАФIтАЩm a little afraid of it.тАЭ
тАЬAfraid? Good God, man, what do you mean?тАЭ
тАЬI donтАЩt know, exactlyтАФbut did you have a feeling, as you watched the action, that somehow it
cameтАФtoo nearтАФto life?тАЭ
тАЬBlairтАФIтАЩm afraid youтАЩve been working too hard on this. Let me handle it from now on, will you?
And stop thinking about it. IтАЩve got to get back to the studio now and see whatтАЩs happened to my
actorsтАФattack of temperament, probablyтАФbut IтАЩll see you tonight about quantity production. Until then,
you wonтАЩt let anyone else in on this, will you?тАЭ
тАЬYou know I wonтАЩt, Abe. ItтАЩs yours if you want it.тАЭ
All the way back to the studio SilversтАЩ mind was spinning with the magnitude of what lay before him.
He had dared to let the inventor know how enormously impressed he was, how anxious to have the new
process, because he knew OтАЩByrne so well. The man was wealthy in his own right, indifferent to fame, to
everything but the deep need to create which had driven him so hard for so many years toward the
completion of his miracle. Miracle in three dimension! It seemed like a dream, what he had just seen, but