标题: 《The Long Tomorrow 》作者：- Leigh Brackett【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2014-4-18 07:33 标题: 《The Long Tomorrow 》作者：- Leigh Brackett【EPUB】 The Long Tomorrow Leigh Brackett No city, no town, no community of more than one thousand people or two hundred buildings to the square mile shall be built or permitted to exist anywhere in the United States of America."Constitution of the United States THIRTIETH AMENDMENT Book One 1 Len Colter sat in the shade under the wall of the horse barn, eating pone and sweet butter and contemplating a sin. He was fourteen years old, and he had lived all of them on the farm at Piper's Run, where opportunities for real sinning were comfortably few. But now Piper's Run was more than thirty miles away, and he was having a look at the world, bright with distractions and gaudy with possibilities. He was at the Canfield Fair. And for the first time in his life Len Colter was faced with a major decision. He was finding it difficult. "Pa will beat the daylights out of me," he said, "if he finds out." Cousin Esau said, "You scared?" He had turned fifteen just three weeks ago, which meant that he would not have to go to school any more with the children. He was still a long way from being counted among the men, but it was a big step and Len was impressed by it. Esau was taller than Len, and he had dark eyes that glittered and shone all the time like the eyes of an unbroken colt, looking everywhere for something and never quite finding it, perhaps because he did not know yet what it was. His hands were restless and very