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Название книги: Song of Kali
Автор(ы): Dan Simmons
Жанр: Мистика
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For HARLAN ELLISON, who has heard the song,And for KAREN and JANE,who are my other voices.
". . . there is a darkness. Itis for everyone . . . Only some Greeksand admirers of theirs, in theirliquid noon, where the friendshipof beauty to human things was perfect,thought they were clearly dividedfrom this darkness. And theseGreeks too were in it. But stillthey are the admiration of therest of the mud-sprung, famine-knifed, street-pounding, war-rattled, difficult, painstaking,kicked in the belly, grief andcartilage mankind, the multitude,some under a coal-sucking Vesuviusof chaos smoke, some inside aheaving Calcutta midnight, whovery well know where they are."— Saul Bellow"Why, this is Hell; nor am Iout of it."— Christopher Marlowe
Some places are too evil to be allowed to exist. Some cities are too wicked to be suffered. Calcutta is such a place. Before Calcutta I would have laughed at such an idea. Before Calcutta I did not believe in evil — certainly not as a force separate from the actions of men. Before Calcutta I wa
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