"Allen Steele - The Tranquillity Alternative" - читать интересную книгу автора (Steele Allen)

Mr. Grid's response: LOL! u sure are cranky tonight. Wh
your problem?
Pizza is late, Thor200 replies, his fingers flying across
keyboard. Ordered it 30 mins. ago. Getting pissed off.
Pepperoni/olives/extra. cheese?
He sighs, smiling despite himself. She knows him all
well. Sometimes he wonders, if he were to ever walk int
room where she was sitting, whether she would reco
him immediately. How many visual clues has he revea
about himself during the last eighteen months of their r
tionship? His age? His wire-rim glasses? The slight pau
around his middle, due in part to an addiction to one parti
lar kind of pizza?
How did you possibly guess? he says.
King Charles arrived today in Washington, D.C., where
was warmly greeted at the White House by President

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ton. While the two men sat down to discuss the propo
Anglo-American Free Trade Agreement, Hillary Rodh
Clinton escorted Princess Diana on a tour of the Library
Congress, where the Magna Carta is currently on display.
There's many things I know about you, m1ord. All y
particular likes and dislikes.
He raises an eyebrow. Indeed, she does; although they mi
not recognize one another if they were in the same room
gether, he was aware of precisely how she would respond
the darkened bedroom of his ancestral manor, beneath s
sheets with a fire crackling in the hearth nearby. He kno
the touch of her hands, the taste of her lips, the athletic m
cles of her body ...
A TV commercial interrupts this train of thought: a harri
housewife with a throbbing headache, screaming for fast f
relief. He glances at Mister Mom; the security man inten
watches this bit of Madison Avenue insipidity, apparen
checking out the actress's boobs. To each his own, even if i
banal beyond belief. .

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THE TRANQUILLITY ALTERNATIVE

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