Аннотация
Rudy Rucker
The Secret of Life
The quotations at the head of each part are taken fromNausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, New Directions Books, Norfolk, Connecticut, 1959.
La Nausee was first published in 1938 by Librairie Gallimard.
For Niles Schoening
Part I
“I was just thinking,” I tell him, laughing, “that here we sit, all of us, eating and drinking to preserve our precious existence and really there is nothing, nothing, absolutely no reason for existing.”
—Jean-Paul Sartre,Nausea
Chapter 1:
Monday, December 31, 1962 Conrad Bunger was sixteen when it first hit him:Someday you’ll be dead.
The coat racks were at the foot of the stairs leading down to the bathrooms. Conrad made his way there and patted down the overcoats, feeling for the happy tumor of a hidden pint. It was easy; the bottles grew as thick as autumn fruit. Conrad drew out a pint of Old Crow and gulped at the strange liquid, vile and volatile stuff that evaporated ...
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