How I Met Myself
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How I met myself .......................................................
Level 3
Cambridge English Readers
Series editor: Philip Prowse
How I Met Myself
David A. Hill
published by the press syndicate of the universit y of cambridge The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom cambridge universit y press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK 40 West 20thStreet, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA 10 Stamford Road, Oakleigh, VIC 3166, Australia  Ruiz de Alarcon 13, 28014 Madrid, Spain Dock House, The Waterfront, Cape Town 8001, South Africa http://www.cambridge.org # Cambridge University Press 2001 First published 2001 This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, noreproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge Typeset in 12/15pt Adobe Garamond [CE] ISBN 0 521 75018 0 paperback ISBN 0 521 75019 9 cassette
Contents
Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18
A strange meeting Getting to know me A search 7 Felka utca I tell Andrea Talking to the housekeepers È Doppelganger A holiday The date gets closer again 18 January A little bit of history Looking for the truth Problems at home Another year goes by I discover some more facts It all happens again We must get them out! Unexpected help6 7 9 13 17 20 23 26 31 35 38 42 47 49 51 54 57 61
3
Characters
John Taylor: an English computer programmer working for a multinational company in Budapest, Hungary. Andrea Taylor: John's wife, and a teacher of Hungarian. Kati Taylor: John and Andrea's baby daughter. Zsolt: a man who has a bar in Budapest's Thirteenth District. Janos Szabo: John Taylor's doppelganger, a Hungarian man whodied in the 1956 revolution. Mrs Fischer: an old lady who knew Janos Szabo. Paul Harris: an old friend of John Taylor's.
Chapter 1 A strange meeting I was walking home from my office one January evening. It was a Monday. The weather was very cold, and there were some low clouds around the tops of the buildings. Once I'd left the main road, there weren't many people in the dark, narrow streetsof Budapest's Thirteenth District. Everything was very quiet. It felt as if the city was waiting for something. As I walked I thought about what had happened at work. I had argued with one of the Hungarians I worked with. It was the first serious problem since I'd arrived. I was trying to think what to do about it, and I was also hoping that my wife, Andrea, had made one of her nice hot soups fordinner. After about five minutes it started to snow heavily, so that the streets were soon completely white. As I was walking along a very dark part of one street there was the noise of a door shutting loudly inside a building. Then I heard the sound of someone running. Suddenly, the street door opened and a man came out of it and ran straight into me. I fell over into the snow, shouting somethinglike, 'Hey, watch 1
where you're going!' - my words were loud in the empty street. The man turned to look at me for a moment. 'Sorry,' he said very quietly, in Hungarian, before walking quickly away. What I saw at that moment, in that dark winter street was very strange, and I felt very afraid. Because what I saw was me. My face looking down at me. My mouth saying sorry.
Chapter 2 Gettingto know me Perhaps I'd better tell you something about me before I go on with the rest of this story. My name is John Taylor, and I'm 34 years old. I'm nearly two metres tall, with light brown hair and eyes and I have a moustache. I'm a computer programmer. Four years ago, my company in Bristol became part of a very large multinational computer company - you would know the name if I told you. I...
Level 3
Cambridge English Readers
Series editor: Philip Prowse
How I Met Myself
David A. Hill
published by the press syndicate of the universit y of cambridge The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom cambridge universit y press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK 40 West 20thStreet, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA 10 Stamford Road, Oakleigh, VIC 3166, Australia  Ruiz de Alarcon 13, 28014 Madrid, Spain Dock House, The Waterfront, Cape Town 8001, South Africa http://www.cambridge.org # Cambridge University Press 2001 First published 2001 This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, noreproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge Typeset in 12/15pt Adobe Garamond [CE] ISBN 0 521 75018 0 paperback ISBN 0 521 75019 9 cassette
Contents
Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18
A strange meeting Getting to know me A search 7 Felka utca I tell Andrea Talking to the housekeepers È Doppelganger A holiday The date gets closer again 18 January A little bit of history Looking for the truth Problems at home Another year goes by I discover some more facts It all happens again We must get them out! Unexpected help6 7 9 13 17 20 23 26 31 35 38 42 47 49 51 54 57 61
3
Characters
John Taylor: an English computer programmer working for a multinational company in Budapest, Hungary. Andrea Taylor: John's wife, and a teacher of Hungarian. Kati Taylor: John and Andrea's baby daughter. Zsolt: a man who has a bar in Budapest's Thirteenth District. Janos Szabo: John Taylor's doppelganger, a Hungarian man whodied in the 1956 revolution. Mrs Fischer: an old lady who knew Janos Szabo. Paul Harris: an old friend of John Taylor's.
Chapter 1 A strange meeting I was walking home from my office one January evening. It was a Monday. The weather was very cold, and there were some low clouds around the tops of the buildings. Once I'd left the main road, there weren't many people in the dark, narrow streetsof Budapest's Thirteenth District. Everything was very quiet. It felt as if the city was waiting for something. As I walked I thought about what had happened at work. I had argued with one of the Hungarians I worked with. It was the first serious problem since I'd arrived. I was trying to think what to do about it, and I was also hoping that my wife, Andrea, had made one of her nice hot soups fordinner. After about five minutes it started to snow heavily, so that the streets were soon completely white. As I was walking along a very dark part of one street there was the noise of a door shutting loudly inside a building. Then I heard the sound of someone running. Suddenly, the street door opened and a man came out of it and ran straight into me. I fell over into the snow, shouting somethinglike, 'Hey, watch 1
where you're going!' - my words were loud in the empty street. The man turned to look at me for a moment. 'Sorry,' he said very quietly, in Hungarian, before walking quickly away. What I saw at that moment, in that dark winter street was very strange, and I felt very afraid. Because what I saw was me. My face looking down at me. My mouth saying sorry.
Chapter 2 Gettingto know me Perhaps I'd better tell you something about me before I go on with the rest of this story. My name is John Taylor, and I'm 34 years old. I'm nearly two metres tall, with light brown hair and eyes and I have a moustache. I'm a computer programmer. Four years ago, my company in Bristol became part of a very large multinational computer company - you would know the name if I told you. I...
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