Twilight of the Eastern Gods
“He’d caught it at the funeral of a princess in Delhi – imprudently, he had gone too close to the coffin to make a hasty sketch of some of the detail. He died a few days after landing in Moscow; his friends and relatives were expected to end in the same way.Early one morning, in front of the porter’s lodge at the Institute, a large poster went up, ordering the entire population of the city to be vaccinated, with a list of all the vaccination centres that had been set up. Anyone not following the... order within forty-eight hours risked being quarantined.A knot of people was looking at the poster.‘Serves us right,’ Kurganov muttered. ‘We’ve got far too cosy with India.’‘Did the epidemic come from there?’ someone asked.‘Where else? You don’t think it came from West Germany, do you?’‘That’s enough, Kolya,’ said his companion, tugging at his sleeve. ‘Time to go and get that vaccination.’‘Kurganov’s right,’ said Maskiavicius, who had suddenly turned up.MoreLess
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