The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich by Fritz Leiber

Author:Fritz Leiber [Leiber, Fritz]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Horror, OCR-Finished
ISBN: 9780312854089
Amazon: 0312866224
Goodreads: 952413
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 1996-12-31T23:00:00+00:00

And then… then I suddenly lay very still, rigid. In the mind of one in an ecstasy of joy or grief, meaningless incidents will flare up with a deep significance. It was that way with me. I thought of Kesserich sitting in a graveyard, laughing at the tombstones. That action of his seemed to sum up for me the whole of reality and—this is the strangest thing of all—filled me with an irrational hope. Perhaps I thought that Kesserich could teach me how to conquer my racking grief. We’re egotists mostly, Kramer; it’s our suffering that matters to us and not the thing we’re suffering for. A near sleepless week had made dust of my nerve juice. God knows just why I went to Kesserich. Perhaps only to be near someone. Anyhow, I went.

I threw on my clothes, stumbled down the darkened stair, and dashed out of the house, as hurriedly as a machine gone mad. The storm had broken; great sheets of rain were driven by the high wind. I got my roadster out of the garage and rocketed through the town, out into the desert, out into chaos, out to Kesserich.

My wild knocking brought him to the door. I saw his haggard face in a lightning flash, saw its every drawn line graven momentarily and immobile as though on the statue of martyr.

“Kesserich,” I said, the intensity of my feeling preventing any preliminary statement, “I’ve come to…” and I paused, speechless at my unreason.

“I think I know why,” he said slowly and with a terrible irony, freezing me, the world, and himself; “Yes, yes, it had to be just this… just this…”

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