David Langford - Blit

VIP免费

2024-11-24 0 0 14.37KB 6 页 5.9玖币

侵权投诉

BLIT

a short story by David Langford

It was like being caught halfway through a flashy film-dissolve. The

goggles broke up the dim street, split and reshuffled it along diagonal

lines: a glowing KEBABS sign was transposed into the typestyle they

called

Shatter. Safest to keep the goggles on, Robbo had decided. Even in the

flickering electric half-light before dawn, you never knew what you

might

see. Just his luck if the stencil jumped from under his arm and

unrolled

itself before his eyes as he scrabbled for it on the pavement.

That would be a good place, behind the 34 (a shattered 34) bus stop.

This

was their part of town; the women flocked there each morning,

twittering

in their saris like bright alien canaries. A good place, by a

boarded-up

shop window thick with flyposted gig announcements.

Robbo scanned the street for movement, glanced at his own hand to be

reassured by a blurred spaghetti of fingers. Guaranteed Army issue

goggles

-- the Group had friends in funny places -- but they said the eye

eventually adjusts. One day something clicks, and clear outlines jump

you. He flinched as the thick plastic unrolled; then the nervy moment

was

past, his left hand pressing the stencil against a tattered poster

while

in his right the spray-can hissed.

The sweetish, heady smell of car touch-up paint made it all seem oddly

distant from an act of terrorism.

He found he'd been careless, easy in this false twilight and through

these

lenses: there were tacky patches on his fingers as he re-rolled the

Parrot. A few hours on, in thick morning light, the brown women would

playing the wink game.... Jesus, how long since he'd been a kid and

played

that? Must be five years. The one who'd drawn the murder card caught

your

eye and winked, and you had to die with lots of spasms and overacting.

survive, you needed to spot the murderer first and get in with an

accusation -- or at least, know where not to look.

It was cold. Time to move on, to pick another place. Goggles or no

shatter-goggles, he didn't look back at the image of the Parrot. It

might

wink.

SECRET * BASILISK

Distribution UK List B[iv] only

... so called because its outline, when processed for non-hazardous

viewing, is generally considered to resemble that of the bird. A

processed (anamorphically elongated) partial image appears in Appendix

of this report, page A3-ii. THE STATED PAGE MUST NOT BE VIEWED

THROUGH

ANY FORM OF CYLINDRICAL LENS. PROLONGED VIEWING IS STRONGLY

文档加载中……请稍候！
如果长时间未打开，您也可以点击刷新试试。

下载文档到电脑，查找使用更方便

5.9 玖币 0人已下载

立即下载 VIP免费下载

David Langford - Blit.pdf

共6页,预览1页

还剩页未读，继续阅读

声明：本站为文档C2C交易模式，即用户上传的文档直接被用户下载，本站只是中间服务平台，本站所有文档下载所得的收益归上传人(含作者)所有。玖贝云文库仅提供信息存储空间，仅对用户上传内容的表现方式做保护处理，对上载内容本身不做任何修改或编辑。若文档所含内容侵犯了您的版权或隐私，请立即通知玖贝云文库，我们立即给予删除！

David Langford - Blit

相关推荐

开通VIP享超值会员特权

作者详情

相关内容

热门标签

举报选择: