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Гук, мрачнее тучи, собрал ртуть в склянку и вышел; через минуту мистер Пепис (глядя через окно в ньютоновский рефлекторный телескоп) увидел, как тот направляется к Собачьей канавке в обществе потаскухи.

That they’d fucked Anne Hyde up and down, fucked her in in the city and in the country, in ships and palaces, beds and hammocks, bushes, flower-beds, water-closets, and garrets, that they had fucked her drunk and fucked her sober, from behind and in front, from above, below, and both the right and left sides, singly and in groups, in the day and in the night and during all phases of the moon and signs of the Zodiac

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ENOCH ROUNDS THE CORNER JUSTas the executioner raises the noose above the woman’s head. The crowd on the Common stop praying and sobbing for just as long as Jack Ketch stands there, elbows locked, for all the world like a carpenter heaving a ridge-beam into place