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小說:The Shining 原版小說 作者:圈圈

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loss; life and death。 There were a dozen trucks in the loading bays out back;

some laid one over the other like bad time exposures。 In the east…wing ballroom;

a dozen different business conventions were going on at the same time within

temporal centimeters of each other。 There was a costume ball going on。 There

were soirees; wedding receptions; birthday and anniversary parties。 Men talking

about Neville Chamberlain and the Archduke of Austria。 Music。 Laughter。

Drunkenness。 Hysteria。 Little love; not here; but a steady undercurrent of

sensuousness。 And he could almost hear all of them together; drifting through

the hotel and making a graceful cacophony。 In the dining room where he stood;

breakfast; lunch; and dinner for seventy years were all being served

simultaneously just behind him。 He could almost 。。。 no; strike the almost。 He

could hear them; faintly as yet; but clearly — the way one can hear thunder miles

off on a hot summer's day。 He could hear all of them; the beautiful strangers。

He was being aware of them as they must have been aware of him from the very

start。

All the rooms of the Overlook were occupied this morning。

A full house。

And beyond the batwings; a low murmur of conversation drifted and swirled like

lazy cigarette smoke。 More sophisticated; more private。 Low; throaty female

laughter; the kind that seems to vibrate in a fairy ring around the viscera and

the genitals。 The sound of a cash register; its window softly lighted in the

warm halfdark; ringing up the price of a gin rickey; a Manhattan; a depression

bomber; a sloe gin fizz; a zombie。 The jukebox; pouring out its drinkers'

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