Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Roadside picnic (№ 167480)

Just boggles the mind: such a gorgeous woman, but actually an empty shell, a fraud, a lifeless doll, not a woman. As I remember, the buttons on the jacket of his mother, such amber, translucent, Golden, and I want to put in your mouth and suck in expectation of some extraordinary sweets, and he took them in his mouth and sucked, and each time was terribly disappointed, and every time forget about that disappointment, not even to forget, but simply refused to believe his own memory, he had to see them again.