He hooked the wire rims over his ears and went up to the thin-glass partition to look at the net. Is it still raining?" "Yes," he said, wiping his spectacles on his muffler. Very long speech about Mediaeval's maiden voyage in time," she said, "and the college of Brasenose taking its rightful place as the jewel in history's crown. Her gray hair was in disarray, as if she had tried to fluff it up after taking her hat off. She had taken off her coat and wool hat and set them on the only other chair, along with a large shopping bag full of parcels. "All you've missed is Gilchrist's speech." She leaned back in her chair to let Dunworthy squeeze past her into the narrow observation area. "I can't hear you over the sound of those ghastly carols." Dunworthy closed the door, but it didn't completely shut out the sound of "O, Come All Ye Faithful" wafting in from the quad. "Am I too late?" he said, yanking them off and squinting at Mary. Dunworthy opened the door to the laboratory and his spectacles promptly steamed up. "What a ringer needs most is not strength but the ability to keep time.You must bring these two things together in your mind and let them rest there forever-bells and time, bells and time." Ronald Blythe, AkenfieldĬHAPTER ONE Mr. And, lest the writing should perish with the writer and the work fail with the laborer, I leave parchment to continue this work, if perchance any man survive and any of the race of Adam escape this pestilence and carry on the work which I have begun." Brother John Clyn 1349 "And lest things which should be remembered perish with time and vanish from the memory of those who are to come after us, I, seeing so many evils and the whole world, as it were, placed within the grasp of the Evil One, being myself as if among the dead, I, waiting for death, have put into writing all the things that I have witnessed. And my undying gratitude to Sheila and Kelly and Frazier and Cee, and especially to Marta-the friends I love. File:///F|/rah/Connie%20Willis/Doomsday%20Book.txtĭOOMSDAY BOOK by Connie Willis 1992 DEDICATION To Laura and Cordeliamy KivrinsĪCKNOWLEDGMENTS My special thanks to Head Librarian Jamie LaRue and the rest of the staff of the Greeley Public Library for their endless and invaluable assistance.
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