The Hawkline Monster by Richard Brautigan

Author:Richard Brautigan [Brautigan, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General
ISBN: 9780980517934
Google: vflCPgAACAAJ
Publisher: Hunter Publishers
Published: 1974-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

• Journey to the Ice Caves •

The Hawkline women guided them down the hall to a flight of stairs that led to the laboratory and the ice caves.

They were halfway down the hall when they heard a heavy slow shuffling sound. It was the butler. He emerged, head ducking through a door, into the hall.

“You’re going to kill the monster,” he said, in a very old voice. His mouth moved and his voice seemed to come out moments later.

He towered above them.

His hair was white like the frost on the grass outside the house.

“The monster ate my master,” the giant butler said. “If only I were younger, I’d kill that monster with my bare hands.”

His hands were huge and knotted with arthritis. Probably in their day they could have killed a monster but now they were in repose like old gray uneatable hams.

“You’re going to kill the monster,” the giant butler repeated. He was very tired from his trip to Brooks to pick up new things for The Chemicals. He was getting too old to make a trip that long.

The giant butler’s eyelids were drooping.

“Thank God,” he said. The word God almost lost itself in his throat. It sounded like somebody sitting down in an old chair.

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