标题: 《Prophet 》作者：- Mike Resnick【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-8-28 20:45 标题: 《Prophet 》作者：- Mike Resnick【EPUB】 The Prophet Who Was Never Wrong When I was a young man began the Reverend Billy Karma and just starting out on the preachingtrail I came across a true quirk of Nature --a pair of brothers who were Siamese twins joinedat the hip. I did my best to uplift their spirits but they felt abandoned by God and one daythey walked out during a thunderstorm and begged Him to strike them down with a bolt oflightning and end their misery. And damned if the Good Lord didnt do just that. His aim was alittle off though probably due to the poor visibility and instead of killing them thelightning actually split them apart. The shock sent em both into a coma and they lost a lotof blood but somehow or other they were found and taken to a hospital before they couldexpire and there they lay day in and day out tied in to dozens of tubes and wires. And thenone day one of em opened his eyes and asked where he was and what had happened to him and thestaff calmed him down and explained the situation to him and the Lord granted another miracleand brought him back to perfect health within a week. One afternoon just before he was due to leave the hospital he mentioned that he wished hedidnt have such an ugly scar on his left hip --and lo and behold the scar vanished almostbefore the words were out of his mouth. I wish the sun would break through all the clouds he said and a second later the sun didjust that. It was then he realized that hed been doubly blessed by God that anything hewished for would come true. Now he hadnt ever prepared for a profession since there aint a lot of jobs open to one-halfof a Siamese twin team but now he decided to set up