Стивен Кинг & Питер Страуб — Black house

Талисман (Талисман—1)

  “RIGHT HERE AND NOW, as an old friend used to say, we are in the fluid present, where clear-sightedness never guarantees perfect vision. ...

&  — Case closed, game over, zip your fly.

&  One secondary definition of slippage is: the feeling that things in general have just gotten, or very shortly will get, worse.

&  — If people were not supposed to buy eggs, why would refrigerators come with egg holders?

&  — Peolpe tell you this can happen — in the blink of an eye, they say, before you know it, they say — but you don't believe it. Then a wind comes.

&  — I'm a gentleman, I agree with everybody.

&  Cops see differently than people who aren't cops. When a cop looks at someone, he wonders what he's guilty of. The possibility of innocence never enters his mind. To a longtime cop, a guy who's put in ten years or more, everyone who isn't a cop is guilty.
    Only most of them haven't been caught yet. That's the way policeman approach the world.

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&  Every day is important, especially those filled with warmth and sunlight and no particular responsibilities.

&  The best way to get cooperation is to give it.

&  If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

&  — It's always the past. That's where the hurt is, all you can't get over.

&  — Give that boy a flyswatter and he'd try to catch dinner with it.

&  Diagnosing a problem is not the same as fixing it.

&  — Look closely, because in a moment your heart will stop.

&  What you love, you must love all the harder because someday it will be gone.

&  Some things are meant to be, that's all. Meant.
/ В жизни бывает такое, чего избежать невозможно. События, которые обязательно должны произойти.

&  — EVEN A BLIND MAN CAN SEE THAT...!

&  Few things in life are more annoying than a noisy traveling companion.

&  — It's vital that you remember the three little words that lead to most acquittals in criminal trials. And what are those words? — "I can't remember."
/    — А потом вы должны говорить только три коротких слова, которые чаще всего приводят к оправданию обвиняемых.
    — И что это за слова?
    — Я не помню.

&  When in doubt, tell 'em you can't remember. / Если сомневаешься, говори, что не помнишь.

&  — Why must that be? Why must life always demand so much and give so little?
    — Ka.
/     — Почему так устроена жизнь? Почему она требует так много отдавать, а взамен предлагает самую малость?
    — Ка.

  ... "Welcome back," she says. "My heart, my life, and my love: welcome back."”

# Elicitation

• Волк за рулем и Creedence Clearwater Revival: Run Through The Jungle
• Zoot Sims – Zoot's Theme
• Fairfield Porter
• Slobberbone – Gimme Back My Dog
• Hoagy Carmichael, Stardust (Henry's best)
• Patsy Cline, Crazy Arms (Jack's best)
• &  ...воображаемый город Стэтлер на дороге к Роксбергу, в котором жили и работали персонажи замечательных романов К. К. Константина о начальнике полиции маленького городка Марио Бальзике. Если вы никогда не читали этих романов, доставьте себе удовольствие.