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作品:The Dead Father 作者:唐纳德·巴塞尔姆 字数: 下载本书  举报本章节错误/更新太慢

    Let him make his speech, Julie said.

    Yesterday you said no.

    I erday. today I am in a fairer mood.

    ts interesting, t?

    I ignore sense data, s him make his speech.

    turned to ther.

    ould you like to make your speech now?

    I   pertinency.

    togethe men and Emma.

    tood in a ragged een. Edmund , ip of t, Julie at ther.

    tepped forward and assumed ion, a kind of forwardly lean.

    All ted cigarettes. Julie ligte as did Emma.

    tips of ther.

    In considering, ionally arriving ionally arriving s ained and some discarded -- All t doalking to eacemplating I say tionally arrived  provided for by anticipatory design ical,  reliably extend a set of ever-advancing speeding poised lingering or dtern be unto te until t time. Given tence of t time, anticipatory design neurosis designs for integration of til-tening non-self-requested experience of life and s, s variable stresses and floo carry inornadoes do not occur as predicted but look out of trees, ational tiles not provided for by anticipatory design fury preallotted to tinuance of consciousness kno us pray. tensionally cooday and gone tomorroy iny outicles in y and progressive conceptioning and Faterface ic beed by parts suc. tatic or quot;at restquot; analysis to super series of unpredictable matical frequencies composed of complementary and reciprocal numbers found in cyclic bundling of experience not necessarily compromised by variable geograpations, but sometimes, as in t tly come and go, to multidynamically blossom or burst forty or pain and pre- and postnatal . . . disappointments . . . next appropriate trial balance struck. . . as to rue experience of tively-evolving compre against fire flood pestilence violent atmospurbance and providing seventeen cubic feet of air per minute per person free of toxic or disagreeable odors or dust, or malice,  metals broadly speaking and syntics narroerlink into continuously improving ra-corporeal nets  island of pinuity sad to say, sad to say, pinuity and torpor, total velocities of o solve. Given ory design despair suco you and knoo me, and freakiness, and bearing in mind puso and above all, and disregarding ttern security is cened by tematically pulsing alternations,  your existence olerable olerances of .01, .02, and .03, given up-tooling of social engineering extra-genetic razzle post-partum reprepositioning and I spy. thank you.

    ted for the applause.

    A storm of applause from the men!

    thank you.

    Prolonged and fervent applause. les. Stamping of feet. aving of he women).

    thank you.

    A wonderful speechomas.

    A marvelous speecograph my program.

    ther, of course.

    Quite extraordinary, said Emma,  mean?

    t meant I made a speech.

    Beautifully done, said thomas, are you free for lunch?

    think so.

    Julie h her handkerchief.

    A long time since Ive , sime, not since my student days in fact.

    ther.

    t, said thomas.

    Yes, said ther.

    Positively on tively speaking.

    t .

    Enough! said Julie.

    , asked t alone among ty I am not alloo be filthed?

    Because you are an old fart, ss must be notably clean of mouto mitigate tingness of being old farts.

    t his cable.

    Look o op, Emma observed.

    t off dorailing.

    o do it again, said thomas.

    t a rapid pace.

    tanding in a   cleaving it in teater and ty numbats and t blade round and round rio of ouakaris and a spider monkey and a common squid. tc canding idly by c slauged standing  of uck in taken by a fit set about tter and a  and a tapir and a piglet. ter   got t rees of to sep ated farusting s and a marmoset and t ticky corpses drenco a group of staring pelicans slicing t tern and a pair of ducks and a sing peacock and a dancing crane and a bustard and a lily-trotter and,  from rimmed sleeve, sleoo and a ta  in one draug of t a small iguana melted in terror against tree. tossed to titious cupbearer sousing tical unic  to ts a fis slaying diverse small animals of every kind, so t ted steaming to t and to t of e step. A toad escaped.

    her said, looking pleased. See how many!

    ting the edible.

    See her said again.

    truly formidable, Julie said, to please y  been seen since t, Paracelsus, Rogero, Artegal, Otuel, Ogier the Chevalier Bayard.

    Rather, for an old man.

    he green grass.

    Emmas gaze (admiring).

    See  is, ther said, and how limber.

    a fe: quinte, sixte, septime.

    And now, lunch, Julie said.

    Sablecloting plan.

    I ed, in ts! ther exclaimed.

    temporary her.

    And I, relegated, traight look.

    Julie returned traight look.

    toe.

    Please release my toe.

    tinued to grasp toe.

    toe, eresting oe. toe. toe. toe. toe. A veiny toe. Red lines on toe. Succulent toe. Succulent, succulent toe. Succulent succulent succulent --

    toe in h.

    th.

    toe fell from tched his forehead.

    You  not rap t rap triking t nature. Striking ther is --

    More grebe? Julie asked.

    Is tard? thomas asked.

    In t.

    roops fed themselves? Julie asked.

    the road. Cooking fires were visible.

    ting y,  is ahead.

    is aher.

    thomas said.

    t are they?

    t is ahead.

    is peculiar about ther asked.

    t like us.

    ed ated it languidly, representing negligence and of-no-consequence.

    Dont like us? ?

    First, because s, a gigantic and strange and a.

    I do inspire ater time of it. Did I not once rule the ends?

    You did, you did, said th an iron hand.

    I rule them no longer?

    It is because you are slipping into tarry starry nigogetaken away from you in 1936.

    It ouch and go.

    here?

    Near to a million, at t census.

    here?

    ty-ting Edmund.

    Groan from Julie.

    t us c. e can talk about someteresting, giraffes for example. Or you can explain yourself. It is aleresting to hear someone explaining himself.

    Let us talk about giraffes, said tend to stutter. Of course I dont kno deal about giraffes. to be very intelligent. tiful eyes. tiful eyelasongues extend to ty inc mucerrific base of ttering voice. Faster travel longer distances at speed. Can beat lion in figs lucky. y to ty are not uncommon eacaining several males but many more females.

    thomas paused.

    Only old males are excluded and live in isolation, he said.

    I am offended, said ther. Again.

    t talk about giraffes any more, tead explain myself.

    I  form, tatata. I y-less-one years ago in a great city ty in fact from ed you. As a neure on t to sc o keep in step  to keep in step o ion as it is called and ed upon by a team of masked gos, top performers every one. It  I ed up to t of ters and t, my convalescence ary service cs and strange climes, learning to salute and stamp my foot at time in t o me ever since. Also a certain amount of truckling, a skill t o me ever since. Also o make friends , a skill t et cetera et cetera. Also o dig a latrine  Burton. Next, I returned to tional arena and studied one of t-of sciences, sociology to be precise, but quickly learned t I alent for it. Nnnnnnext, o be true to tions and prefabrications of my generation to be precise, I married. Oo farce to burlesque some . Oered and t I  only once, nota bene nota bene. t I can only describ as vacancy. During t mucime c practicing stalls and  an engine  I could see ter to reenter ticular, I fitted myself into t quot;Nava; but t I am not a Navary. Pity. I  cing. t of poacrout from government cly, sorry disestimable eem in ed, in loeem. I t some several years in a monastery, but ed for consuming too muc, a very fine cognac. to read philosophy.

    And w did peacher.

    It taug I alent for p --

    But w?

    But I ttle p tle. It  is good. It is about half as good as music.