"Wayne Wightman - The Attack Of The Ignoroids" - читать интересную книгу автора (Wightman Wayne)

the end of the world."

"Vera, although you have amazing legs, you're making the world seem very complex
right now."

"I know, dear. Keep your random access memory alive a minute longer." She
recrossed her legs. I'd never seen past her knees before. She had great muscles
in there. "As soon as the old guy told them that it was sexually
transmitted--and I gather he did this with some kind of Laotian hand gestures --
Zick went ape and did a lot of yelling. Now this last part I don't know what to
make of, but it was enough to cause Zick to evacuate his class and to call the
police. Are you hyperventilating?"

"He did what in his class?"

"He evacuated his class, he didn't evacuate in class."

I was relieved, although the post-digestive image remained in my mind.

"But what evidently drove Zick over the edge was that the old man kept saying,
`reality fucks generators.' Over and over. Zick couldn't shut him up, so he
called the police."

One of her unrestrained breasts, I suddenly realized, was resting on the back of
my hand. Heavily resting on the back of my hand. With only an eighth of a
millimeter of fabric between me and her actual warm breasticular flesh.

"Vera," I said, "My concentration isn't what it was two minutes ago. Before I
pass out, I want you to tell me what this crazy old man has to do with me? Why
are you tormenting me with this story?"

"I must've got too much nitrous in your glass." She moved closer and rested one
hand on the back of my neck. The breast remained on my hand. "I'm telling you
this," she said soothingly, "because when the police came, he said his head hurt
and asked for `the nurse.' And when he saw me, he smiled, bowed politely, said
he felt fine, and asked if he could rent your house. Also, five or six times, he
said `Mr. Ramden come see me, get to keep money.' His name is Khamphang
LaNuit-Gomez."

That brought me around. I even forgot what was on my hand. "Keep my money? And
he knew my name? And asked to rent my house? It's got to be the Internal Revenue
Service. They found out somehow. Vreedon squealed -- it has to be Vreedon. The
way the IRS manipulate these foreigners is despicable. They probably offered
this Fang person a job at a taco stand if he'd pull this stunt." My vision began
going grainy around the edges.

For the first month in four years I didn't have to eat macaroni and beans six
times a week, and now, whatever else all this meant, it meant I was involved,
and I didn't want to be involved with anything where people burned up and talked
about my money and the police asked questions.