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    The Blind Hear Well
    The Blind Hear Well
    The Blind Hear Well
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    The Blind Hear Well

    By Henry Lion Oldie

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    Cassandra, a prophetess, foretold only bitter events. Her prophecies always came true, but everyone hated them. Why did Troy fall—because of insidious Achaeans or Cassandra’s gloomy prophecies?

    THE BLIND HEAR WELL is the 6th novelette from the book “The Songs of Peter Sliadek” by Henry Lion Oldie. The entire novel consists of 12 novelettes. The book received the "Sigma-F" Grand Prize at "Sigma-F Conference" in Moscow, Russia, in 2005.
    8 hard cover editions are in Russian! Now for the first time in English!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHenry Lion Oldie
    Release dateOct 30, 2014
    The Blind Hear Well
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    Henry Lion Oldie

    HENRY LION OLDIE = DMITRY GROMOV + OLEG LADYZHENSKY Dmitry Gromov and Oleg Ladyzhensky are professional Science Fiction & Fantasy co-authors from Ukraine who write their books under the penname "HENRY LION OLDIE". From 1991 to 2012 H.L. Oldie had published more than 200 books (including reprints and translations) or more than 40 original books (first prints); as well as several anthologies. As of today H. L. Oldie had published more than 30 novels, 10 novelettes and more than 70 short stories. The total amount of all H. L. Oldie's books sold up by September 2012 is more than 1.500.000 copies. H. L. Oldie had obtained more than 30 Russian, Ukrainian and International literary awards and prizes. At “EuroCon-2006” International European SF & Fantasy Convention H. L. Oldie got a title of The Best European SF & Fantasy Writer of 2006 (ESFS Award): http://esfs.info/esfs-awards-2000.html#2006

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      The Blind Hear Well - Henry Lion Oldie

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      The Songs of Peter Sliadek

      Song six

      The Blind Hears Well

      Woe to thee, populous city! Behold kings armed by the Lord! . . But fire hath already burned thee to the ground! The Dragon hath appeared and hath brought terrible confusion, terror, and blood, mowing the lily with its tail, devouring the cock that hath cried twice and thrice on its dunghill. Leave thy dunghill, oh fool! Save thyself! Is it not thee whom the angel warneth, appealing diligently, Disaster! Disaster is impending! Alas, the living are deaf to appeals; so the man playeth with prophecies and perisheth, for he hath not believed the envoys of the Omniscient.

      From the prophecies of Orval and Premol

      Morning—

      And you are alive;

      Isn’t it a cause to feel happy?

      Though it does rarely happen—

      More than enough.

      Neru Bobovay

      Kavarren was buzzing like a hive, alarmed at the beekeeper’s arrival. The beekeeper took off the lid carved out of sweet-scented poplar. The bees—the Kavarrenians—buzzed angrily, bristled out with the stings of rapiers, sabers, and broadswords, fussed around… Yet the ecumenical beekeeper was not concerned a bit about the indignation of the winged creatures.

      He had come for his due tribute.

      This was exactly how the city seemed to Peter Sliadek, when he was walking through the city blocks, which truly did resemble a honeycomb. Noise, fear, irritation, foreboding of something… Of disaster?

      She’s delivering, ya hear? Frieda’s delivering…

      Finally… It’s about time…

      That’s the point! She’s been screaming since midnight…

      I couldn’t sleep a wink till morning…

      Oh, I have a feeling she won’t deliver!

      Ya think so?

      What’s there to think? If everything was a’ right, she’d already be nursing…

      ’Tis true, ’tis true. She can’t deliver, the poor woman…

      "Even if she does,

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