Аннотация
Terry Pratchett
JINGO
It was a moonless night, which was good for the purposes of Solid Jackson.
He fished for Curious Squid, so called because, as well as being squid, they were curious. That is to say, their curiosity was the curious thing about them.
Shortly after they got curious about the lantern that Solid had hung over the stern of his boat, they started to become curious about the way in which various of their number suddenly vanished skywards with a splash.
Some of them even became curious – very briefly curious – about the sharp barbed thing that was coming very quickly towards them.
The Curious Squid were extremely curious. Unfortunately, they weren't very good at making connections.
It was a very long way to this fishing ground, but for Solid the trip was usually well worth it. The Curious Squid were very small, harmless, difficult to find and reckoned by connoisseurs to have the foulest taste of any creature in the...
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