Aut: переводы

→And in the tiny silence that follows I let dissolve all my ghosts, calling up only Girlforce 7 with my last remaining strength. The music clicks back into action, time becomes ordinary, and I'm gone, vanished. The snake hisses around, searching. But I'm small, I'm petite. Angels in the dub. I'm the little girl who sings poison in your ear, when no-one is looking…
Take two clouds and thread them
one on either side;
fashion raindrops in your hair
and the sky will be your bride,
the sky will be your bride.

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→7c. Unprotected dispersal can lead to infection of receptacle.

→6a. Under no circumstances is device to be left unattended during 'dispersal' procedure.

→5d. Under no circumstances should corrupted device be left attached to body.

→5c. In case of legitimate breakdown, device should be removed from body, and returned to point of purchase.

→5b. In case of such breakdown (see 5a), owner of device completely to blame.

→4d. Special dispensation required for use of device in public place.

→3c. Do not attempt to use device after auto-shutdown, unless a period of at least thirty minutes has passed.

→3b. Any one session not to exceed sixty minutes, or the onset of auto-shutdown by device, whichever duration is the shorter.

→3a. Device to be used only four times a day, unless authorization granted.

→2e. If device is to be shared, activate 'protection' mode.

→2b. If device is to be handheld, click button B to 'portable'.

→1c. The device is not to be used by children under the age of fourteen, or adults over the age of thirty-nine.

→(text begins)

→The following incomplete document (from the Museum of Fragments) has been provisionally dated as belonging to the early twenty-first century. Although various theories have been put forward regarding the nature of the 'device' referred to, none of them has yet gained universal credence.

→INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE USE OF

→I walk back to the car, carrying some beauties.

→Right. She gets out of the car, ghost-frail, walks a small distance into the darkness. I follow her there, to take a hold of her dissolving hand. We kiss, under the moonlight, and I let her spirit seep back inside of me. It's a tear-stained cadence. Then I'm alone.

→We don't talk much. Each of us caught in separate feelings, lost in the wonder. Until, as we reach the crest of the hill, Margo stops the car. 'I can't drive any more, Perfume,' she says, her voice as gentle as the moon that hangs above. 'You'll have to get us home.'