スタージョン "More Than Human" ISBN:0375703713 【アマゾン】

作文「おいしそうな朝食」しおどあ・すたーじょん


The girl was spooning fragrant bacon grease over and over three perfect eggs in a pan. When he sat down on the edge of the bed she slid the eggs deftly onto a plate, leaving all the grease behindin the pan. They were perfect, the whites completely firm, the yolks unbroken, liquid, faintly filmed over. There was bacon, four brief seconds less than crisp, paper dried and aromatic. There was toast, golden outside, soft and white inside, with butter melting quickly, running to find and fill the welcoming caves and crevices;two slices with butter, one with marmalade. And these lay in some sunlight, giving off a color possible only to marmalade and to stainned glass.

He ate and drank coffee; ate more and drank coffee and coffee.

帰りの電車でこの部分を読んだ。電車降りたらスーパーに直行してベーコンと食パンを買った。
カリカリになる、ほんの四秒前のベーコン」とか「日差しの中で、マーマレードとステンドグラスにしか出せない色を発していた」とか、かっこいー!