Mantis [antikvár]

"PLEASE, NO. GOD, NO."She froze for the moment it took him to wrap her in his arms. To crush her face against his leather chest as he forced her through the doorway.Then she fought. Gasping for air, twisting, screaming in muffled rage, all her energy concentrated on survival. .All Japan Karate Championships Nippon Budokon Hall Tokyo, Japan August 1976What is your name?" The man asking the question was Dr. Kenwa Itosu. He was a tiny man, not more than five feet in height and only 110 lbs. in weight. His face, however, was fierce, his eyes piercing and his thin lips locked in a perpetual frown."Your name?" the doctor repeated, squatting directly in front of the fallen competitor.Josef Tanaka smelled the broiled hamachi on the small man's breath, noted the sweat on his forehead, and wondered for a moment how the diminutive doctor was managing to look him directly in the eye."Tanaka . Josef Tanaka," he answered."Are you able to stand up?" Itosu persisted, his stockinged feet leaving moist circular marks on the hard canvas floor."Yes," Tanaka replied. Anything to escape the stink offish coming from your mouth. He pushed with his hands, then willed his quadriceps to complete the task of raising his six-foot-two-inch body to a vertical position. Now the doctor's head came level with Tanaka's sternum."Do you know where you are?"Tanaka breathed in, attempting to focus on a row of doll-sized faces which stared from the lowest of the circular tiers of stadium seats. Is that my father? Yes, that's him, sitting next to Toshiro Mifune, the film actor."Budokan Hall," he answered."Can you continue?" the doctor pressed, feeling the unnatural silence of ten thousand spectators.There was still a humming in Josefs head, like die metallic whine of a dentist's drill. Sweat mixed witii blood trickled from his nose and ran in rivulets on to the white cotton of the loose jacket of his gi. He should have said no."Yes, I can continue."Kenwa Itosu smiled with relief. Then he nodded to the referee who, in turn, nodded to the four comer judges.