"Sheri S. Tepper - After Long Silence" - читать интересную книгу автора (Tepper Sherri)

"How do you explain it?"

"I can't, sir. I really can't."

"But the score was effective, a real Password."

"Yes, sir. I think so, sir."
"Well. Thank you for bringing this to my attention, Tasmin. I'm sincerely sorry for your loss."

"Thank you, sir."

And then home again. Sick leave. Dizziness and nausea and a constant gray feeling. Jamieson dropping
in each evening to fill him in on what was going on. A Jamieson oddly tentative and uncharacteristically
kind.

"James dropped out of Tripsinging. He's going to specialize in orchestrals."

"Good."

"Refnic's moving to the Jut. They've still got a shortage of Tripsingers there, even afterтАФwhat is it now,
six years? I guess most singers are still afraid of the Crystallite fanatics. Anyhow, Refnic's going."

"Good for him."

"Clarin's staying in Deepsoil Five. When I finish my acolyte's year, I thought you might like to have her.
She'd like to work with you. You know, Master Ferrence, there's a lot to her."

It was as though Jamieson was offering him something he could not quite see. Tasmin tried to respond
but couldn't. Jamieson left it at that.

The synthesizer lay on the table in his study where the medical team had dropped it off. There were
prints of the satellite pictures, too. The Master General had known he would want to see them even
though they showed nothing at all except tumbled crystal.

The synthesizer was the best one Tasmin had ever seen, if not an Explorer model, something close. It
had some kind of transposition circuits in it that Tasmin wasn't familiar with. He fooled with it for over an
hour before he was able to get it into play, and then what emerged was a mishmash that must have
accumulated over weeks or months. Lim's voice. Rehearsals. Lim's voice again, cursing at a technician.
"Damn you, I've told you twenty times I want тАж " Then again, "Get it right this time or get off the job тАж
"

Fragments of music. Real Tripsinging, as pure as air. Lim's improvisations. The Enigma score. Celcy's
voice. " тАж Tasmin will be so proud! Everyone will know who we are, won't they? You, and Tasmin, and
even me."

Then back to the recording session, Lim's voice again. "You'd think after all this time they could say
something meaningful тАж that was petulant of you тАж pisses me off when they don't know who I am тАж "

And finally great swaths of music, a full concert of it, uninterrupted hours of Lim's music, indomitable and