"Daniel Keys Moran - The Ring" - читать интересную книгу автора (Moran Daniel Keys)

All of the characters in this book are fictitious,
and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead,
is purely coincidental.


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ISBN 0-385-24816-4


Copyright ┬й 1988 by William Stewart and Joanne Stewart
 All song lyrics copyright ┬й 1988 by Daniel Keys Moran
The ken Selvren race of humans previously appeared in
The Armageddon Blues, copyright ┬й 1988 by Daniel Keys Moran.
The excerpts which appear on pages 84, 85 from The Armageddon Blues
copyright ┬й 1988 by Daniel Keys Moran, reprinted by permission.


Designed by Ann Gold


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Printed in the United States of America
October 1988
First Edition




For Amy Stout, who is basically a doll.




тАж the rush and roar soon took musical shape within my brain as the chord of E
flat major, surging incessantly in broken chords: these declared themselves as
melodic figurations of increasing motion, yet the pure triad of E flat major never
changed, but seemed by its steady persistence to impart infinite significance to the
element in which I was sinking. I awoke from my half-sleep in terror, feeling as
though the waves were rushing high above my head. I at once recognized that the
orchestral prelude to The Rhinegold, which for a long time I must have carried