Долли Олдертон — королева не только романтической комедии, но и второстепенных персонажей! Они ей удаются чуть ли не лучше основных. В этом романе моим любимцем стал престарелый анархист Моррис, одинокий глуховатый старик, который коллекционирует супы в консервных банках и каждую неделю пишет письма в тюрьму Джулиану Ассанжу. Мой любимый момент романа — это когда он описывает свои рождественские традиции:
'So what do you do on Christmas Day?' I ask suddenly.
He looks up at me with his frightened ferret eyes. He slides back on his elbows with visible struggle then turns on to his side. He slowly heaves himself up, refusing the offer of my hand for help. He stands upright and dusts the pine needles from his jumper.
'I wash all the curtains,' he says. 'It's a job that only needs to be done once a year, and I always remember to do it on the 25th of December.'
'Anything else?' I ask pleadingly.
'I eat a fish pie,' he says. 'And watch Creature from the Black Lagoon.'
Долли Олдертон — королева не только романтической комедии, но и второстепенных персонажей! Они ей удаются чуть ли не лучше основных. В этом романе моим любимцем стал престарелый анархист Моррис, одинокий глуховатый старик, который коллекционирует супы в консервных банках и каждую неделю пишет письма в тюрьму Джулиану Ассанжу. Мой любимый момент романа — это когда он описывает свои рождественские традиции:
'So what do you do on Christmas Day?' I ask suddenly.
He looks up at me with his frightened ferret eyes. He slides back on his elbows with visible struggle then turns on to his side. He slowly heaves himself up, refusing the offer of my hand for help. He stands upright and dusts the pine needles from his jumper.
'I wash all the curtains,' he says. 'It's a job that only needs to be done once a year, and I always remember to do it on the 25th of December.'
'Anything else?' I ask pleadingly.
'I eat a fish pie,' he says. 'And watch Creature from the Black Lagoon.'
You may recall that, back when Facebook started changing WhatsApp’s terms of service, a number of news outlets reported on, and even recommended, switching to Telegram. Pavel Durov even said that users should delete WhatsApp “unless you are cool with all of your photos and messages becoming public one day.” But Telegram can’t be described as a more-secure version of WhatsApp. "He has kind of an old-school cyber-libertarian world view where technology is there to set you free," Maréchal said. Again, in contrast to Facebook, Google and Twitter, Telegram's founder Pavel Durov runs his company in relative secrecy from Dubai. Some people used the platform to organize ahead of the storming of the U.S. Capitol in January 2021, and last month Senator Mark Warner sent a letter to Durov urging him to curb Russian information operations on Telegram. Perpetrators of these scams will create a public group on Telegram to promote these investment packages that are usually accompanied by fake testimonies and sometimes advertised as being Shariah-compliant. Interested investors will be asked to directly message the representatives to begin investing in the various investment packages offered.
from cn
