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1. The Man of To-morrow’s Lament (Жалобная песнь Супермена)

Сайт: http://nabokov-lit.ru Размер: 22кб.

1. The Man of To-morrow’s Lament (Жалобная песнь Супермена)

Сайт: http://nabokov-lit.ru Размер: 22кб.

Часть текста: part, an earthquake, wrecking on the night of nights a woman’s life, some palmtrees, all the lights, the big hotel, a smaller one next door and half a dozen army trucks — or more.   But even if that blast of love should spare her fragile frame — what children would she bear? What monstrous babe, knocking the surgeon down, would waddle out into the awestruck town? When two years old he’d break the strongest chairs, fall through the floor and terrorize the stairs; at four, he’d dive into a well; at five, explore a roaring furnace — and survive; at eight, he’d ruin the longest railway line by playing trains with real ones; and at nine, release all my old enemies from jail, and then I’d try to break his head — and fail.   So this is why, no matter where I fly, red-cloaked, blue-hosed, across the yellow sky, I feel no thrill in chasing thugs and thieves — and gloomily broad-shouldered Kent retrieves his coat and trousers from the garbage can and tucks away the cloak of Superman; and when she sighs — somewhere in Central Park where my immense bronze statue looms — “Oh, Clark… Isn’t he...