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Файл:Douglas Coupland - All Families Are Psychotic.rtf
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- •I wonder if Howie is going to be late? No — Howie's not the late type.
- •In the background, Sarah was wailing.
- •If Ted was awkward about Wade meeting her, he didn't let on.
- •It was at this point where magazine articles, Doris Day films and her mother went silent. There's something wrong going on here, but what?
- •Indeed the fire was almost extinguished. A minute later a police cruiser showed up at the house; Janet came out, curious and worried. 'Officers?'
- •I notice he's not hanging up.
- •In a breath, they were out the door and gone.
- •Inside the case, sandwiched between the upper and lower lids of the case's foam, were an empty schnapps bottle and the letter.
- •In response Wade spritzed his father with the hose, and Ted said, 'Christ, are you two ever testy.'
- •It was turn down service, to which Nickie shouted, 'No, thank you.' She turned to Janet and asked, 'What was the angriest you've ever been with Ted?'
- •Inside the front hallway was a fountain. A shiny curlicued celebration of the brassmonger's craft. A peeing cupid supplied sound effects.
- •In the hallway the housekeeping staff were having a squabble over who did or did not forget towels that were, or were not, of the right type.
- •In the background a bell went off. 'I have to go, Wade.'
- •I will keep my cool. I will keep my cool.
- •I forgot my ddI. Shit, shit, shit. 'Does your nanny still spank you to sleep at night?'
- •I don't believe it — Mom is bonding with Florian.
- •It sat in Janet's right pocket. 'Wade. Oh dear — I assumed. . .' She slipped her hands into moist, muddy pocket folds. '. . . It'd be dead from the water.'
- •I can't believe I'm flying above a swamp at 4:30 in the morning with Mom and Wade discussing a 1970s made-for-tv movie.
- •A note on the author
A note on the author
Douglas Coupland was born on a Canadian Armed Forces Base in Baden-Söllingen, Germany, on December 30, 1961. He is the author of the novels Miss Wyoming, Generation X, Microserfs, and Girlfriend in a Coma, among others. He attended Vancouver's Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, the Hokkaido College of Art and Design in Sapporo, Milan's Instituto Europeo di Design, and the Japan/America Institute of Management Science in Honolulu and Tokyo. He lives and works in Vancouver as a novelist and visual artist.
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