- Почему? - спросила она задиристо, и рот ее внезапно скривился в горькой усмешке, а в глазах блеснул гнев.

'So you can tear it up into little pieces as soon as I leave?'

- Чтобы ты разорвал эту бумажку на мелкие клочья, едва я скроюсь за углом?

'Who's going to tear it up?' Yossarian protested in confusion.

- Почему я должен ее разорвать? - смутившись, запротестовал Йоссариан.

'What the hell are you talking about?'

- Что за чертовщину ты мелешь?

' You will,' she insisted.

- Разорвешь, я знаю, - настаивала она.

'You'll tear it up into little pieces the minute I'm gone and go walking away like a big shot because a tall, young, beautiful girl like me, Luciana, let you sleep with her and did not ask you for money.'

- Разорвешь на мелкие клочья через секунду после того, как я уйду, и пойдешь, важно задрав нос, очень гордый тем, что высокая, молодая, красивая девушка, по имени Лючана, позволила тебе переспать с ней и не попросила денег.

'How much money are you asking me for?' he asked her.

- Сколько ты хочешь попросить? - спросил он.

' Stupido!' she shouted with emotion.

- Дурак! - крикнула она с чувством.

' I am not asking you for any money!'

- Я не собираюсь просить у тебя денег.

She stamped her foot and raised her arm in a turbulent gesture that made Yossarian fear she was going to crack him in the face again with her great pocketbook.

Она топнула ногой и замахнулась на него. Йоссариан испугался, как бы она не трахнула его сумкой по физиономии.

Instead, she scribbled her name and address on a slip of paper and. thrust it at him.

Но вместо этого она написала фамилию и адрес и сунула ему листок.

'Here,' she taunted him sardonically, biting on her lip to still a delicate tremor. 'Don't forget. Don't forget to tear it into tiny pieces as soon as I am gone.'

- Держи. И не забудь разорвать на мелкие клочья, как только я уйду, - съехидничала она и закусила губу, чтобы не расплакаться.

Then she smiled at him serenely, squeezed his hand and, with a whispered regretful

Потом она улыбнулась ему безоблачной улыбкой, пожала руку, прошептала с сожалением:

'Addio,' pressed herself against him for a moment and then straightened and walked away with unconscious dignity and grace.

"Аddiо", на миг еще раз прижалась к нему и, высоко подняв голову, удалилась - грациозно, с полным сознанием собственного достоинства.

The minute she was gone, Yossarian tore the slip of paper up and walked away in the other direction, feeling very much like a big shot because a beautiful young girl like Luciana had slept with him and did not ask for money.

Минуту спустя Йоссариан разорвал полоску бумаги и пошел в противоположном направлении, важно задрав нос, очень гордый тем, что красивая молодая девушка переспала с ним и не попросила денег.

He was pretty pleased with himself until he looked up in the dining room of the Red Cross building and found himself eating breakfast with dozens and dozens of other servicemen in all kinds of fantastic uniforms, and then all at once he was surrounded by images of Luciana getting out of her clothes and into her clothes and caressing and haranguing him tempestuously in the pink rayon chemise she wore in bed with him and would not take off. Yossarian choked on his toast and eggs at the enormity of his error in tearing her long, lithe, nude, young vibrant limbs into any pieces of paper so impudently and dumping her down so smugly into the gutter from the curb.

Он был весьма доволен собой, покуда не заглянул в столовую Красного Креста, где принялся за бифштекс, сидя рядом с другими военнослужащими, щеголявшими военной формой самых немыслимых цветов и покроев. И тут внезапно на него нахлынули мысли о Лючане.

He missed her terribly already.

Сейчас он безумно скучал по ней.

There were so many strident faceless people in uniform in the dining room with him.

Вокруг него в столовой сидели грубые безликие люди в военной форме.

He felt an urgent desire to be alone with her again soon and sprang up impetuously from his table and went running outside and back down the street toward the apartment in search of the tiny bits of paper in the gutter, but they had all been flushed away by a street cleaner's hose.

Он почувствовал непреодолимое желание снова очутиться с ней наедине и стремглав выскочил из-за стала. Он выбежал на улицу, намереваясь отыскать в водосточной канаве клочки бумаги, но дворник, поливавший из шланга мостовую, давно смыл их.

He couldn't find her again in the Allied officers' night club that evening or in the sweltering, burnished, hedonistic bedlam of the black-market restaurant with its vast bobbing wooden trays of elegant food and its chirping flock of bright and lovely girls.

Йоссариану не удалось найти Лючану и вечером -ни в ночном клубе для офицеров союзных армий, ни в душном шикарном ресторане, где под стук деревянных подносов с изысканными блюдами и под щебетание яркой стайки очаровательных девиц резвились прожигатели жизни.

He couldn't even find the restaurant.

Йоссариан не мог даже найти тот ресторан, где встретился с Лючаной.

When he went to bed alone, he dodged flak over Bologna again in a dream, with Aarfy hanging over his shoulder abominably in the plane with a bloated sordid leer.

Он лег в постель и во сне снова уходил от зенитного огня, и Аарфи снова подло крутился около него, бросая недобрые взгляды.

In the morning he ran looking for Luciana in all the French offices he could find, but nobody knew what he was talking about, and then he ran in terror, so jumpy, distraught and disorganized that he just had to keep running in terror somewhere, to the enlisted men's apartment for the squat maid in the lime-colored panties, whom he found dusting in Snowden's room on the fifth floor in her drab brown sweater and heavy dark skirt. Snowden was still alive then, and Yossarian could tell it was Snowden's room from the name stenciled in white on the blue duffel bag he tripped over as he plunged through the doorway at her in a frenzy of creative desperation. The woman caught him by the wrists before he could fall as he came stumbling toward her in need and pulled him along down on top of her as she flopped over backward onto the bed and enveloped him hospitably in her flaccid and consoling embrace, her dust mop aloft in her hand like a banner as her broad, brutish congenial face gazed up at him fondly with a smile of unperjured friendship. There was a sharp elastic snap as she rolled the lime-colored panties off beneath them both without disturbing him. He stuffed money into her hand when they were finished. She hugged him in gratitude. He hugged her. She hugged him back and then pulled him down on top of her on the bed again. He stuffed more money into her hand when they were finished this time and ran out of the room before she could begin hugging him in gratitude again.

Утром он отправился искать Лючану. Он был готов обойти все французские конторы в любом конце города. Но никто из прохожих не понимал, о чем он спрашивает, и тогда он в ужасе побежал куда глаза глядят.