Testo di assaggio

The Damnation Game

by

Clive Barker

Titolo della versione italiana:
Gioco dannato

Copyright 1985

Nor yet exempt, though ruling them like slaves,

From chance, and death, and mutability.

-SHELLY, Prometheus Unbound

Part One

TERRA INCOGNITA

Hell is the place of those who have denied;

They find there what they planted and what dug.

A Lake of Spaces, and a Wood of Nothing,

And wander there and drift, and never cease

Wailing for substance.

-W.B. YEATS, The Hour Glass
...by battle, had discovered sex again, and there was profit in it. Half a loaf of bread could purchase one of the refugee girls-many so young they scarcely had breasts to knead-to be used and reused in the covering darkness, their complaints unheard or silenced by a bayonet when they lost their charm. Such casual homicide was overlooked in a city where tens of thousands had died. For a few weeks-between one regime and the next-anything was possible: no act found culpable, no depravity taboo.
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