《Privateer's Moon》作者： - Terry Dowling 【EPUB】

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eidolon.net TERRY DOWLING homesite eidolon.net%20ho TERRY DOWLING HOMESITE Privateer's Moon Terry Dowling Usually the house sang. It was built to make music out of the seven winds that found it on its desert rise. Vents in the walls, cunning terraces, cleverly-angled embrasures in the canted terrazo facings drew them in; three spiral core-shafts tuned them into vortices and descants, threw them across galleries, flung them around precise cornices and carefully filigreed escarpments so that more than anything the house resembled the ancient breathing caves of the Nullarbor. Which many said was Cheimarrhos' intention, that his great granite and limestone pylon was nothing less than an inverted network of caves set in the sky, chimnies and vaults and inclines in a structure such as Sumer must have seen, or Ur of the Chaldees, or Teoteochan of the Toltecs. Paul Cheimarrhos called his house Balin, and on the day he finally showed me the roof-field there was a stillness on the red sand beyond the large