The Nightwatch by Sergei Lukyanenko

Author:Sergei Lukyanenko
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2010-01-29T04:46:32+00:00

"Do you remember Edgar Allan Poe?" Svetlana asked.

They'd let us in without any fuss. I hadn't been expecting that—the rules in restaurants must have changed, been made more democratic, or maybe they were just short of customers.

"No. He died too long ago. But Semyon was telling me…"

"I didn't mean Poe himself. I meant his stories."

"The Man of the Crowd," I guessed.

Svetlana laughed quietly.

"Yes. You're in the same fix as him right now. You have to stick to crowded places."

"Fortunately I'm still not sick of those places just yet."

We had a glass of Bailey's each and ordered something to eat. That probably gave the waiter certain ideas about why we were there: two inexperienced prostitutes looking for work—but I didn't really care.

"Was he an Other?"

"Poe? Probably an uninitiated one."

"There are some qualities—some incorporate things,

That have a double life, which thus is made

A type of that twin entity which springs

From matter and light, evinced in solid and shade."

Svetlana recited in a quiet voice.

I looked at her in surprise.

"Do you know it?" she asked.

"How can I put it?" I said. Then I raised my eyes and declaimed:

"He is the corporate Silence: dread him not!

No power hath he of evil in himself;

But should some urgent fate (untimely lot!) Bring thee to meet his shadow (nameless elf, That haunteth the lone regions where hath trod No foot of man), commend thyself to God!"

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