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Of all the participants in the drama the only one He felt any
sympathy for was the bronze idol dying slowly before the glass eyes of the
TV cameras; and he didn't feel that very strongly - he hadn't finished his
work, and had to conserve the energy of his emotional centre. With its slightly rounded outline
the opening looked like the frame around a television screen - so much like
it, in fact, that for a moment He thought he was watching the
country's biggest TV set. By the next time he screwed up the nerve to glance round the comer his
cigarette had almost burnt away. another man and his company were getting into
their cars; both the bandits, their faces beaten to pulp, were sitting on
the back seat of a jeep with the bodyguards, and the old man in the brown
raincoat was heatedly arguing his case to an indifferent bodyguard.
Because the anchor man was inverted,
he looked very much like a bat hanging from an invisible perch. He was
not particularly surprised to recognise him as another man. o one replied. He opened his eyes and looked out through the
doorway. Above the horizontal of the forest hung a cloud shaped like a
heavenly mountain - it was so large that the infinite height of the sky,
forgotten already in childhood, was suddenly visible again.....