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Twelve Rooms with a View. Theresa Rebeck
Читать онлайн.Название Twelve Rooms with a View
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isbn 9780007343805
Автор произведения Theresa Rebeck
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Издательство HarperCollins
This turned out to be a good impulse on my part, as Len sort of casually informed me once we were done with the orchid room.
“Some of them are poisonous,” he admitted. “The pollen, the ovules, the nectar, this little darling here—don’t touch—not that it would really hurt you permanently, but you very well might lose all feeling in your arm, for at least a day.”
“Come on, Len,” I said.
“Do you want to try it?” he asked, raising those eyebrows at me.
I didn’t. “But if orchids are poisonous how come everybody has them in their houses?” I asked.
“Only certain species, Tina. Use your head,” he told me, pulling out a very small pair of clippers and snipping some extraneous vines away from a line of bright yellow star-shaped flowers which wound down the side of a tree. “Please don’t touch that.”
“You can’t touch any of them?” I asked.
“Until you know which ones are poisonous, and which aren’t, no, in fact, you can’t touch any of them.—
“How did you find out which ones are poisonous?”
“The hard way,” he informed me. “I studied.”
The place smelled like growing things, and sounded like water. He had little fountains in corners, and strange pools suddenly appeared behind tree trunks, or alongside a hillside of ferns. That greenhouse was so big it had hills—small hills, but there were definite undulations. And everything was green, a thousand different greens, each one more subtle than the next. In spite of the pink coleus and the startling sexuality of the many-colored and poisonous orchids, green was what you saw, everywhere. And sky. You forgot, honestly, that you were in a building, in a city, on an island. I don’t know where you were, but it was not where you thought.
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