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It&039;s hard to get used to this sight People have muscular spasms, and at suchon an invisible body His entire weight is supported on his aardly twisted wrists, or soers Normally a man could never deliberately hold himself in that position for even a few seconds, but in a trance he can stay in it for hours Similar phenomena are repeatedly described in the literature on hypnosis, so nobody will give me a Nobel Prize for the discovery And I don&039;t need hus except love andeternal youth that has been laid open to h I reject all accusations of va&039;s life force and I never have done Moral satisfaction, I ical aspect, but that is not subject to ement: even someone with immense compassion for animals can tuck into a bloody steak for dinner with his sto, and there&039;s no contradiction involved And apart from that, unlike people, who kill animals, I haven&039;t taken anybody&039;s life for centuries now, at least not deliberately Accidents happen, but a night spent with ht in a Russian helicopter in conditions of average visibility People fly in helicopters in conditions of average visibility, don&039;t they? Of course they do I&039;steen put it, I can take you higher

And apart from that, I don&039;t believe that it&039;s personal when I draw energy from someone A man who eats an apple doesn&039;t enter into a personal relationship with the apple, he just follows the established order of things I regard y that serves for the conception of life does not belong to people Entering into the act of love, a huy and is transformed from a sealed vessel to a pipe that is connected for a few seconds to the bottomless source of the life force I simply require access to that source, that&039;s all

&039;And now lie on your tummy, sweetheart,&039; the Sikh said &039;It&039;s ti a bit more serious&039;

Anal sex is the favourite sport of portfolio investors There&039;s a simple psychoanalytical explanation for this - just try co shit&039; with the expression &039;investing h Personally, I&039;e discharge of the life force froathering energy

Setting aside my book, I closedsyrams Then I pictured myself as the dark half of the sylow in the centre of the dark half, and a similar black dot appeared in the centre of the white half

The white began growing darker and black growing lighter, until they swapped places Dilettantes believe that this is the eous moment to disconnect, but I alith the &039; - the poetic nao

If you steal soy, it&039;s important not to provoke the wrath of heaven and the spirits with your greed Therefore, I allowed the situation to proceed into the phase of reverse developy halted and then turned back on itself My visualization began changing rapidly A black dot appeared in the centre of the light half of the yin-yang symbol and a similar white dot appeared in the centre of the dark half And it was only when the dots had becoy link and dissolved the visualization in the void

After a big win in a casino, the right thing to do is not to leave - it&039;s better to lose a little, in order not to provoke resenter And it&039;s the same in our line of work In ancient tireed But then we realized we had to share! Heaven does not frown so darkly e show coht see hairs, but the difference here is exactly the same as that between an ar, in the latter case there is no crime for the spirits to punish But there&039;s still no way you can trick your own conscience, so it&039;s best just to leave it out of things

The Sikh got up off the bed and wandered into the bathrooarette and began speaking in a relaxed voice, telling the pillow beside hiarrulous and benevolent for about half an hour, owing to the release of dopa their duty I didn&039;t payI wanted to finish reading about how a black hole behaves when gravitational collapse reduces its diaht I could detect an erotic subtext to these astrophysicalwasn&039;t writing about physics at all, but about sex - only not about squalid huave birth to reat explosion is referred to as the &039;Big Bang&039; All the most sacred mysteries of the universe are concealed in the darkness of black holes, but it&039;s iularity because it doesn&039;t eht, like a bedrooht, astrophysicists are nothing but voyeurs Except that voyeurs soliap between the curtains, but physicists have been cheated by fate, and they have to i as they stare into ink-black darkness

When he&039;d finished sain - he settled on his side and went at it for a long ti lullaby And I committed thehours I fell asleep

I actually only dozed off for a h I sensed I&039;d lost contact with the Sikh and when I looked up,wildly He could seeon a chair withup behind ht no one should ever see, apart froht I had was that I was facing a Taoist exorcist This was a totally absurd idea because:

1 The last Taoist capable of hunting foxes lived in the eighteenth century

2 Even if one of theed to hold out until uise himself as a bearded Sikh with an Oxford accent - that would have been &039;too freakingto the &039;, Taoists have no for me

4 Taoists never come three times in a row

But the powerful fear of exorcists of evil spirits is built into our genes, and in er ays think of theuys, then you&039;ll understand the way I feel

A moment later I realized this was no Taoist, but simplysight The Sikh was opening and closing his mouth like a fish just landed on a riverbank Then, in an atteain control of the body that wouldn&039;t obey hian clenching and unclenching his fingers Then he groaned hoarsely several times and suddenly bounded to his feet

At this point I finally unfroze andafter me, but I slaer my mind works quickly; I realized immediately what I had to do

Every bathroo out of a little hole in the wall I don&039;t knohat it&039;s connected to, but if you tug on it, ten seconds later the phone in the roo, and a minute after that someone will knock on the door I pulled the cord and dashed back to the door of the bathroo, while I waited for security to arrive, and shuddered at the furious blows on the door, counting toas hard as he could, but I ed to hold hieafter exactly twenty seconds Naturally, the Sikh didn&039;t answer it When the blows stopped after a minute or two, I knew there were other people in the roo off its hinges I heard the sound of furniture being overturned, the tinkle of broken glass and a garbled shout that sounded liked &039;kaliThen there was silence, broken only by the distant honking of car horns

&039;That&039;s fucked it,&039; said a oner&039;

&039;Lucky he didn&039;t take us with hih,&039; the first voice replied

It was better to let them knoas there myself than wait for them to find me I called out in a plaintive voice:

&039;Help!&039;

The door opened

There were two hulks standing in the doorway of the bathroo froht And, incidentally, that would ion for security ionaries worshipped Mithras, didn&039;t they?

One of the securityto himself - the only words I could make out were &039;three nineteen&039; and &039;call&039; He was-n&039;t talking to me

As far as I&039;m aware, their microphones are hidden behind the lapels of their jackets, and that&039;s why it often see to themselves Sooons searching a wo the doors of the cabins and chanting: &039;There&039;s no one hereThere&039;s no one here at allThe &039;s blocked off by a party wall&039; If I hadn&039;t knohat he was doing, Iover sorief in iambic pentameters

&039;Did you pull the cord?&039; the second security man asked

&039;Yes,&039; I said, &039;but where&039;s&039;

The security lass was broken

&039;Over there&039;

&039;Youround eyes, &039;he&039;s&039;

&039;Yeah,&039; said the guard &039;Ca drugs?&039;

&039;What drugs? I&039;ve been working here for a year now Everybody knows me, I&039;ve never had any problems&039;

&039;Well, now you do What did he want from you?&039;

&039;I didn&039;t really understand,&039; I said &039;He wantedI said I didn&039;t kno, and then he startedWell, anyway, I hid in the bathroo else&039;

&039;We sure did Got any ID on you?&039;

I shook uys and you&039;ll never see it again

&039;Maybe I could go? Before the fuzz gets here?&039;

&039;What do you o? Are you crazy? You&039;re the main witness, &039; the security man said &039;You&039;ll have to testify about what you were doing here&039;

That definitely wasn&039;t part of my plans I evaluated the situation While there were only two of the any hassle But it was getting slimmer every second - I knew the rooo to the toilet?&039;

The security man nodded, and I went back into the bathroom I had to act quickly, so I didn&039;t hesitate for a second I dropped my pants and freed my tail, bent over and opened the door I did it very abruptly, and the guards immediately turned to look at me

I believe a man reveals what he&039;s really like in that second when he&039;s already seen a fox&039;s tail but not yet fallen under its hypnotic influence A client usually has enough time to express his response to what he&039;s seen And that&039;s enough to tell you who you&039;re dealing with

All the crude, narrow-rimaces of sullen disbelief But the faces of people who have the potential for inner growth express sohted surprise

One of the security aped in alasses) and opened his mouth like a little child who&039;s just seen the birdie the photographer promised him It looked really sweet

Of course, I couldn&039;t completely remove my imprint from their memories - to do that to someone, you have to shoot thee the context of the estion in their minds that they&039;d met me in the corridor on their way to the suite Then I o into the bathroom As soon as the door closed behind the&039;s book up off the floor, dropped it in , pulled up my trousers and skipped out into the corridor

There was another security estured for o over to him, and when I reached hi htly as I could In any other situation the least he would have got for that was a bruise pinch But right then it still wasn&039;t clear how everything was going to work out, so I just slapped hiesture flowed ser and thuainst each other

I understood Girls like me usually hand over a hundred dollars on the way out, but under the present circuested that payment should be made on the spot I took a portrait of Benjarabbed it with the saainst each other There was a certain kind of beauty in the economy of movement - from threat to reminder to acceptance As the Japanese swordsman Minamoto Musashi said: &039;You can tell a master from his stance&039;

I walked down the stairs decorated with fleurs-de-lys and made it out into the street without any further adventures A crowd, including several athered to the left of the exit - that was clearly where the unfortunate Sikh was lying I walked in the opposite direction and a few steps later I was already round the corner Now all I had to do was stop a taxi One pulled over almost immediately

&039;Bitsevsky Park,&039; I said &039;The equestrian complex&039;

&039;Three hundred and fifty,&039; the driver answered

Today was his lucky day I jumped into the back, sat down and slammed the door, and the taxi carried me away from the disaster that had see to reproach myself for, but my mood had been spoilt Apart from the fact that an entirely innocent man had died, I&039;d lost my job at the National - it wouldn&039;t be wise to show my face in there for the foreseeable future ThatAnd starting fro low, and the hundred dollars I&039;d given the security guard had thrown et into deficit

An acquaintance of mine used to say that the evil in our lives can only be overcoh not entirely flawless from a metaphysical point of viee should really talk about is not victory over evil, but the opportunity to buy it off temporarily But without money evil is triumphant in just a couple of days, that&039;s proven fact

I could have got rich, if I earneddishonestly But a virtuous fox must support herself only by prostitution and never, under any circuift for other purposes - such is the law of heaven, which it is not perress Of course, sometimes you have to I uards But you can only do that kind of thing when your life and freedoullible reat, you have to inspire yourself with examples fro inouta spot in another hotel wasn&039;t easy, and for the foreseeable future I could only see two alternatives: streetwalking and the Internet The Internet seee ofmyself on its fibre-optic sidewalks would be stylishly futuristic How interesting, I thought, everybody&039;s always going on about progress And what does it all mean? Just that the oldest professions acquire an electronic interface, that&039;s all Progress doesn&039;t alter the nature of the fundaloomy mood

&039;What&039;s up,&039; he asked, &039;someone upset you, love?&039;

&039;Aha,&039; I said

He&039;d been the last person to upset me, when he named a price of three hundred and fifty roubles for the journey

&039;Don&039;t you pay &039;em any heed,&039; said the driver &039;You kno ht about it every ti balloon full of shit Pay &039;eotten all about it And life&039;s a long business, you know&039;

&039;I know,&039; I said &039;But how do you do that - pay no heed?&039;

&039;Just don&039;t, that&039;s all Think about soet that from?&039;

The taxi-driver squinted atyou enjoy in your life?&039;

&039;No,&039; I said

&039;You don&039;tbut suffering, is it?&039;