Abarat. Clive Barker
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Название: Abarat
Автор: Clive Barker
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Приключения: прочее
isbn: 9780007301690
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“I don’t know,” she replied. “This is my first visit.”
The Sea-Skippers looked at the Johns for an answer.
It was John Drowze who replied. “I say we go to the Yebba Dim Day, in the Straits of Dusk.”
There was a general consensus from the brothers.
“The Yebba Dim Day it is,” Kocono announced.
“Wait,” Candy said. “Don’t forget your table.”
“Oh, Mizza will find her own way home,” Kocono said. “Mizza!”
A head with large, rather woebegone features—and a square cranium almost as flat as the shell on which the Sea-Skippers’ cards and liquor glass still stood—appeared from the water.
“You want me to wait for you at Tazmagor?” the creature said.
“Yes, please,” said Kocono.
“It was nice playing on you,” Deaux-Deaux said. “As always.”
“Oh, think nothing of it,” the Card Table replied, and paddled off through the swell.
Candy shook her head. For some reason, out of the back of her skull came the memory of her beloved uncle Fred, her mother’s elder brother, who’d worked in a zoo in Chicago, cleaning up after the animals. Once, he’d been taking her around the place, pointing out his favorite animals, who were all oddities. The two-toed sloths, the anteaters, the mules.
“If you ever doubted that God had a sense of humor, all you’d have to do is look at some of these guys,” he’d remarked.
Candy smiled to herself, picturing Uncle Fred’s round, bald face as he looked fondly down at her. No doubt the sight of Mizza the Floating Card Table would have had him laughing until the tears trickled down his face.
“What are you smiling at, lady?” Mischief asked Candy.
But before she had a chance to explain, the Sea-Skippers took off at a breath-snatching speed, and they were on their way to the Yebba Dim Day.
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