Abarat: Absolute Midnight

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Автор книги: Клайв Баркер

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Come away. Come away.

It carried the words off toward Oblivion.

“No, thanks . . .” she said very quietly, so quietly that the ribbon was translucent. “We’ve got somewhere to go.”

She reached out as far as her muscles and joints would allow, and grabbed hold of whatever tentacles were growing from the Other Side.

Something there understood the sign she was sending. And it pulled. Candy didn’t have time to offer further word to Malingo. It all happened too fast. Suddenly there were bits of color rushing at her, tiny bits, and with them, the briefest fragments of sound. Nothing made sense. It came too fast and it just got faster.

Color, color, color . . .

Note, note, note . . .

Color, note. Color, note.

Col—

No—

Col—

No—

Suddenly, nothing.

A long, empty, gray hush.

But she wasn’t afraid. She knew how these things worked now. Everything was a mirror.

If prisons—

–therefore liberty.

It’s started.

If seas—

See it?

–therefore shores.

Hear it?

If silence,

Yes!

Therefore song.

And they were in another world entirely.

Hopelessness is reasonable.

But nothing of worth

in my life

came of reason.

Not my love,

not my art,

not my heaven.

So I am hopeful.

–Zephario Carrion

So Ends

The Third Book of Abarat

Abarat: Absolute Midnight

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Barker, Clive.

Absolute midnight / Clive Barker. – 1st ed.

p.cm. – (Abarat ; [bk. 3])

Summary: Candy Quackenbush of Chickentown, Minnesota, is the only person who can stop the evil Mater Motley who, now that the hour of midnight has come, is prepared to unleash the end of the world.

ISBN 978-0-06-029171-6

[1. Space and time—Fiction. 2. Fantasy.] I. Title.

PZ7.B25046Ac 2011

[Fic]—dc22

2010042665

CIP AC

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