"Geoff Ryman - Everywhere" - читать интересную книгу автора (Ryman Geoff)

No one was paying any attention to the likes of me, were they? So I
just take off. ThereтАЩs this old bridge youтАЩre not allowed on. ItтАЩs got trees
growing out of it. The floorтАЩs gone, and you have to walk along the top of the
barricades. You fall off, you go straight into the river, but itтАЩs a good dodge
into Newcastle.

So I just went and stood there for a bit, looking down on the river. Me
Granddad used to take me sailing. WeтАЩd push off from the Haughs, and
shoot out under this bridge, I could see where we were practically. And
weтАЩd go all the way down the Tyne and out to sea. He used to take me out
to where the dolphins were. YouтАЩd see Liam come up. He was still wearing
his computer, Liam, like a crown.

So IтАЩm standing on the bridge, and me watch says: go down to the
swimming pool, and go and tell Liam that GranddadтАЩs dead.

ItтАЩs a bit like a dog I guess. You got to show one dog the dead body
of the other or it will pine.

So I went down to the pool, but itтАЩs late and raining and thereтАЩs
nobody there, and I start to call him, like: Liam! Li-am! But he wasnтАЩt there.

So me watch says: heтАЩs wearing his computer: give him a call on his
mobile.

So me watch goes bleep bleep bleep, and thereтАЩs a crackle and
suddenly I hear a whoosh and crickle, and thereтАЩs all these cold green
waves on the face of my watch, and I say Liam? Liam, this is me,
remember me, Liam? My GranddadтАЩs dead Liam. I thought you might need
to know.
 But what is he, just a dolphin right, I donтАЩt know what it meant. HowтАЩs
he supposed to know who I am. You all right then, Liam? Catching lots of
fish are you? So I hung up.

And I stand there, and the rainтАЩs really bucketing down, and I donтАЩt
want to go home. Talking to yourself. ItтАЩs the first sign, you know.

And suddenly me watch starts up again, and itтАЩs talking to me with
GranddadтАЩs voice. You wanna hear what it said? Here. Hear.

Hello there, Landlubber. How are ya? This is your old Granddad. ItтАЩs
a dead clever world we live in, isnтАЩt it? TheyтАЩve rigged this thing up
here, so that I can put this in your watch for when you need it.

Listen, me old son. You mustnтАЩt grieve, you know. Things are
different now. They know how it works. We used to think we had a
little man in our heads who watched everything on a screen and
when you died he went to heaven not you. Now, they know, thereтАЩs
no little man, thereтАЩs no screen. ThereтАЩs just a brain putting