Söndags-smakbit #14

Bloggen Betraktelser ger oss på söndagar chansen att publicera ett litet smakprov ur en bok vi läser.
Jag läser Orbital av Samantha Harvey. Jag har länkat titeln till Goodreads där du kan läsa mer.
Smakbit sid.36
-” In the new morning of today´s fourth earth orbit the Saharan dust sweeps to the sea in hundred-mile ribbons. Hazy pale green shimmering sea, hazy tangerine land. This is Africa shiming with light. You can almost hear it, this light, from inside the craft. Gran Canaria´s steep radial gorges pile the island up like a sandcastle hastily built, and when the Atlas Mountains announce the end of the desert, clouds appear in the shape of a shark whose tail flips at the southern coast of Spain, whose fin-tip nudges the southern Alps, whose nose will dive any moment into the Mediterranean. Albania and Montenegro are velvet soft with mountain.

sid 93
-”RUSSIAN COSMONAUTS ONLY, it says on the door of the Russian WC.
Correspondingly on the US toilet door, AMERICAN, EUROPEAN AND JAPANESE ASTRONAUTS ONLY. Because of ongoing political disputes please use your own national toilet. The idea of a national toilet has caused some amusement among the cruw. I´m just going to take a national pee, Shaun will say. Or Roman: Guys, I´m going to go and do one for Russia.