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Isle Of The Dead :: Zelazny Roger
Страница: 106 из 110"She lies in the Asylum of Fallon in Cobacho, on Driscoll, where she is registered as Rita Lawrence. Her face has been altered, and her mind. You must remove her and hire doctors."
"Why is she there?"
"It was easier than bringing her to Illyria."
"All this pain which you caused meant nothing to you, did it?"
"No. Perhaps I had worked with the stuff of life too long ..."
"... And poorly. I am inclined to think it was Belion within you."
"I did not wish to say it, because I did not want to offer excuses, but I feel this way also. This is why I tried to kill Shimbo. It was this part of me that you faced, and I wished to strike at it, too. After he left me for Shandon, I felt remorse for many of the things I had done. He had to be sent away, which is why Shimbo of Darktree came. Belion could not be permitted to create more worlds of cruelty and ugliness. Shimbo, who cast them like jewels into the darkness, sparkling with the colors of life, had to confront him once again. Now that he has won, there will be more such as these."
"No," I said. "We can't operate without each other, and I've resigned."
"You are bitter oven all that has happened, and perhaps justly so. But one does not easily abandon a calling such as yours, _Dra_. Perhaps with the passage of time ..."
I did not answer him for my thoughts had turned inward again.
The way that we walked was the way of death. However pleasant it seemed, this was a _glitten_ experience; and while ordinary people may become addicted to _glitten_ because of the euphoria and the brain-bending, telepaths use _glitten_ in special ways.
Used by a single individual, it serves to heighten his powers.
Used by two persons, a common dream will be dreamed. It, also, is always a very pleasant dream--and among Strantrians it is always the same dream, because this form of religious training conditions the subconscious to produce it by reflex. It is a tradition.
... And two dream it and only one awakens.
It is, therefore, used in the death rite, so that one need not go alone to the place I've spent over a thousand years avoiding.
Also, it is used for dueling purposes. For, unless agreed upon and bound by ritual, it is only the stronger who comes back. It is the nature of the drug that some sleeping parts of the two minds are set in conflict, though the conscious portions be all unaware of this.
Green Green had been so bound, so I did not fear a last-ditch trick for the gaining of Pei'an vengeance.
"Why is she there?"
"It was easier than bringing her to Illyria."
"All this pain which you caused meant nothing to you, did it?"
"No. Perhaps I had worked with the stuff of life too long ..."
"... And poorly. I am inclined to think it was Belion within you."
"I did not wish to say it, because I did not want to offer excuses, but I feel this way also. This is why I tried to kill Shimbo. It was this part of me that you faced, and I wished to strike at it, too. After he left me for Shandon, I felt remorse for many of the things I had done. He had to be sent away, which is why Shimbo of Darktree came. Belion could not be permitted to create more worlds of cruelty and ugliness. Shimbo, who cast them like jewels into the darkness, sparkling with the colors of life, had to confront him once again. Now that he has won, there will be more such as these."
"No," I said. "We can't operate without each other, and I've resigned."
"You are bitter oven all that has happened, and perhaps justly so. But one does not easily abandon a calling such as yours, _Dra_. Perhaps with the passage of time ..."
I did not answer him for my thoughts had turned inward again.
The way that we walked was the way of death. However pleasant it seemed, this was a _glitten_ experience; and while ordinary people may become addicted to _glitten_ because of the euphoria and the brain-bending, telepaths use _glitten_ in special ways.
Used by a single individual, it serves to heighten his powers.
Used by two persons, a common dream will be dreamed. It, also, is always a very pleasant dream--and among Strantrians it is always the same dream, because this form of religious training conditions the subconscious to produce it by reflex. It is a tradition.
... And two dream it and only one awakens.
It is, therefore, used in the death rite, so that one need not go alone to the place I've spent over a thousand years avoiding.
Also, it is used for dueling purposes. For, unless agreed upon and bound by ritual, it is only the stronger who comes back. It is the nature of the drug that some sleeping parts of the two minds are set in conflict, though the conscious portions be all unaware of this.
Green Green had been so bound, so I did not fear a last-ditch trick for the gaining of Pei'an vengeance.