Jingo (Terry David John Pratchett) читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги

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At the end of Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, Sydney Carton, good-natured layabout and occasional drunk, goes to the guillotine in the place of his beloved’s beloved.

The book’s famous last line is not a direct quote from Sydney (since he’s already dead by then), but rather what the narrator feels he might have said: “If he had given any utterance to his [thoughts], and they were prophetic, they would have been these: ‘[…] It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.’”.