（外文电子版资料）King, Stephen - The Dark Tower 4 - Wizard and Glass.doc

? Составление и оформление -el` Poison-, 2002.http://el-poison.narod.ru ТЕМНАЯ БАШНЯ IV: КОЛДУН И КРИСТАЛ THE DARK TOWER IV: WIZARD GLASS 1997 Стивен КИНГ Отрывок из книги. 1 и 2 главы. Chapter 1 BENEATH THE DEMON MOON The town of Candleton was a poisoned and irradiated ruin, but not dead; after all the decades and centuries, it still twitched, still pulsed with its own tenebrous life--trundling beetles the size of turtles, birds that looked like small, misshapen dragonlets, a few stumbling robots that passed in and out of the rotten buildings like stainless-steel zombies, their joints squalling, their nuclear eyes flickering. Show your pass, pard! cried the one that had been stuck in a corner of the lobby of the Candleton Travellers Hotel for the last two hundred and thirty-four years. Embossed on the rusty lozenge of its head was a six-pointed star. It had over the years managed to dig a shallow concavity in the steel-sheathed wall blocking its way, but that was all. Show your pass, pard! Elevated radiation levels possible south and east of town! Show your pass, pard! Elevated radiation levels possible south and east of town! A bloated rat-thing, blind and dragging most of its guts behind it in a sac like a rotten placenta, struggled over the posse robots feet. The posse robot took no notice, just went on butting its steel head into the steel wall. Show your pass, pard! Elevated radiation levels possible, dad rattit and gods cuss it! Caution advised! Behind it, in the hotel bar, the skulls of men and women who had come in here for one last drink before the cataclysm caught up with them grinned as if they had died laughing. Perhaps some of them had. When Blaine the Mono blammed overhead, running up the night like a bullet running up the barrel of a gun, windows broke, dust sifted down, and several of the skulls disintegrated like ancient pottery vases. Outside, a brief hurricane of radioactive dust blew up the street, and the hitching-post in front of the Ele