* Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree. There is the constant desire to find out where, where is the point where it all began?
!! Терри Пратчетт с первых же слов. Уммммм. У них получилось!
* Susan: ...and then Jack chops down what's the world's last beanstalk adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the Giant's children didn't have a daddy anymore.
But he got away with it and lived happily ever after without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done. Which proves that you can be excused just about anything if you're a hero because no one asks inconvenient questions.
And now, it's time for bed.
* Lord Downey: Mr. Teatime, are you telling me you have actually sat down and given thought into how to inhume Death?
Teatime: Everyone has a weakness sir.
* Mr. Gaiter: Dashed convincing, the way she bent the poker like that.
* Death: ALBERT. SOMETHING HERE IS NOT RIGHT.
Albert: Awk! Too right. This is the mythological persons' room. How come one of them die?
* Susan: Grandfather, this is Hogswatch. It is supposed to be jolly, with mistletoe and holly. And other things... ending in -olly. It's a time when people are meant to feel good about things and eat until they explode. A time when they want to see all their... relatives. I mean it's a time when humans are really human.
And they don't want... a skeleton at the feast. Especially one, I might add, who is wearing a false beard, and has got a damn cushion shoved up his robe.
I mean, why?
Death: ALBERT SAID IT WOULD HELP ME GET INTO THE SPIRIT OF THE THING.
* Death: I SEE THE GIRL WRITES IN GREEN CRAYON ON PINK PAPER WITH A MOUSE IN THE CORNER. THE MOUSE IS WEARING A DRESS.
Susan: I ought to point out that she decided to do that so the Hogfather would think she was sweet. Including the deliberate bad spelling. But look, why are you doing the...
Death: SHE SAYS SHE IS FIVE YEARS OLD.
Susan: Seven. In cynicism, she's about thirty five. But why are you doing the...
Death: BUT SHE BELIEVES IN THE HOGFATHER?
Susan: She'd believe in anything if there was a dolly in it for her.
* Susan: And what are you doing here, Albert? I thought you'd die if you ever came back to the world.
Death: AH, BUT WE ARE NOT IN THE WORLD. WE ARE IN THE SPECIAL CONGRUENT REALITY CREATED FOR THE HOGFATHER. NORMAL RULES HAVE TO BE SUSPENDED. HOW ELSE COULD ANYONE GET AROUND THE ENTIRE WORLD IN ONE NIGHT?
* Death: NOW, WE MUST BE GOING. HAPPY HOGSWATCH! AND, OH YES. HO, HO, HO.
--- Словарик:
chop down — срубать
enticement — заманивание; обольщение, искушение
twinge — угрызение (совести); мука
Dashed — чертовски, дьявольски
convincing — убедительный
poker — кочерга
jolly — праздничный; шумный
mistletoe — омела белая
holly — остролист
feast — пир; празднество; банкет
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