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Anna Kavan

  • Alejandra Espinoцитируетв прошлом году
    There is nothing else like it … This ice is not psychological ice or metaphysical ice; here the loneliness of childhood has been magicked into a physical reality as hallucinatory as the Ancient Mariner’s.’
  • Alejandra Espinoцитируетв прошлом году
    Reality had always been something of an unknown quantity to me. At times this could be disturbing
  • Alejandra Espinoцитируетв прошлом году
    I watched the ice climb higher, covering knees and thighs, saw her mouth open, a black hole in the white face, heard her thin, agonized scream. I felt no pity for her
  • Alejandra Espinoцитируетв прошлом году
    Her hair was astonishing, silver-white, an albino’s, sparkling like moonlight, like moonlit venetian glass. I treated her like a glass girl; at times she hardly seemed real.
  • Alejandra Espinoцитируетв прошлом году
    My old suspicions revived; here was someone who was cashing in on the emergency before it had even arrived
  • Alejandra Espinoцитируетв прошлом году
    Instead of the darkness, she faced a stupendous sky-conflagration, an incredible glacial dream-scene. Cold coruscations of rainbow fire pulsed overhead, shot through by shafts of pure incandescence thrown out by mountains of solid ice towering all around.
  • Alejandra Espinoцитируетв прошлом году
    The world had become an arctic prison from which no escape was possible, all its creatures trapped as securely as were the trees, already lifeless inside their deadly resplendent armour
  • Alejandra Espinoцитируетв прошлом году
    Despairingly she looked all around. She was completely encircled by the tremendous ice walls, which were made fluid by explosions of blinding light, so that they moved and changed with a continuous liquid motion, advancing in torrents of ice, avalanches as big as oceans, flooding everywhere over the doomed world.
  • Alejandra Espinoцитируетв прошлом году
    was informed privately of a steep rise in radioactive pollution, pointing to the explosion of a nuclear device, but of an unknown type, the consequences of which could not be accurately predicted. It was possible that polar modifications had resulted, and would lead to a substantial climatic change due to the refraction of solar heat.
  • Alejandra Espinoцитируетв прошлом году
    The one thing that would have clarified the position was an overall picture of world events; but this was prohibited by the determination of the politicians to ban all foreign news
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