Carthage. Joyce Carol Oates
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Название: Carthage
Автор: Joyce Carol Oates
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Книги о войне
isbn: 9780007485765
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For once her eyes were opened, she could not close them again until nighttime.
Once the thoughts of her lost daughter were unleashed, like a landslide, like a flash flood, they could not be curtailed. They could not be contained.
Oh God. Cressida! Tell us where you are, honey.
If we can come to you—tell us . . .
Nor could Arlette avoid acknowledging her husband lying exhausted in sleep beside her like a winded, wounded beast that groaned and muttered in its sleep; or, worse, lay awake; having been awake for hours, thoughts churning in his head like laundry in a washer.
It had long been their custom to kiss in the morning—casually aimed kisses like greetings. But now, Arlette lay very still not wanting to move in the hope that Zeno wouldn’t know she’d wakened.
Yet, Zeno always knew. His brooding monologue, that had rumbled through the night inaudibly, now surfaced:
“God damn I’m going out to see McManus this morning. Bastard never returned my call yesterday and I think—I’ve been thinking—there is something they know, they’re hiding from us. Some reason they haven’t arrested Kincaid yet.”
Or: “I’m going over to the Meyers’ this morning. I think—I’ve been thinking—there is something more Marcy knows, she hasn’t told anyone. But maybe I can prevail upon her to tell me.”
Wordless Arlette moved to kiss her husband on his mouth, that had so little to do with her, only with the continual monologue, the argument.
A kiss is a way of not-speaking. A way of cowardice.
Arlette was thinking of Cressida’s pen-and-ink drawing—Metamorphoses.
White humanoid figures that evolved by degrees into abstract shapes and became “black”—then evolved back to their original shapes, and their original “whiteness”—but profoundly altered.
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