标题: 《The Long Walk》作者： - Richard Bachman【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2014-4-18 07:34 标题: 《The Long Walk》作者： - Richard Bachman【EPUB】 THE LONG WALK Richard Bachman [05 feb 2001 - scanned for #bookz, proofread and released - v1] Only death can keep you from the finish line - in the ultimate competition of the all-too-near future... "To me the Universe was all void of Life, or Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb. O vast, gloomy, solitary Golgotha, and Mill of Death! Why was the Living banished thither companionless, conscious? Why, if there is no Devil; nay, unless the Devil is your God?" -Thomas Carlyle "I would encourage every American to walk as often as possible. It's more than healthy; it's fun." -John F. Kennedy (1962) "The pump don't work 'Cause the vandals took the handle." -Bob Dylan PART ONE: STARTING OUT Chapter 1 "Say the secret word and win a hundred dollars. George, who are our first contestants? George . . . ? Are you there, George?" -Groucho Marx You Bet Your Life An old blue Ford pulled into the guarded parking lot that morning, looking like a small, tired dog after a hard tun. One of the guards, an expressionless young man in a khaki uniform and a Sam Browne belt, asked to see the blue plastic ID card. The boy in the back seat handed it to his mother. His mother handed it to the guard. The guard took it to a computer terminal that looked strange and out of place in the rural stillness. The computer terminal ate the card and flashed this on its screen: GARRATY RAYMOND DAVIS RD 1 POWNAL MAINE ANDROSGOGGIN COUNTY ID NUMBER 49-801-89 OK-OK-OK The guard punched another button and all of this disappeared, leaving the ter-minal screen smooth