《Ratbird 》作者： - Brian W. Aldiss【EPUB】

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RATBIRD By Brian Aldiss ... To warn and warn: that one night, never more To light and warm us, down will sink the lurid sun Beneath the sea, and none Shall see us more upon this passionate shore. The disintegration of the old world? Easy. I’ll manage it. Everything will end not with a bang but a whisper — a whisper of last words. Words. So it began. So it will end. When I grow up. Here I lie on this crimson equatorial shore, far from where the great electronic city dissolves itself under its own photochemical smogs. Here I lie, about to tell you the legend of the Other Side. Also about to go on a journey of self-discovery which must bring me back to my beginnings. As sure as I have tusks, this is ontology on the hoof. So to begin with what’s overhead. The sun disputes its rights