RtYtb=Ru - World map.

музыка: NARCOTIC DREAM
    от: FOXX/APRIL'99 4 DEMO OR DIE #1


БиБлиотека RtYtb=RU
(с)Андрей Козлов.


          Карта мира.

   Он  уже давно лежал в кровати иwatched
up to the ceiling. It was deep night. Shel
it was two o'clock and I couldn't sleep. My head was spinning
fragments of memories of a past life. He
clung to them - and sleep did not come at all
family Only occasionally did sleep occur. But not
for a long time.
   The neighbor, Zhenya VoroByov, introduced himself.
Zhenya was standing somewhere on the street. Trees behind
VoroByov's back made noise and swayed on
wind.  Zhenya held a mug in his right hand
with beer. He smiled widely. It's like a photo
signed off and at the same time looked straight at the ob-
camera lens. Now the bird will fly out
ka". Just a minute. Just a minute.
   There was darkness outside the window. I'm drowning in it -
everything is around. But His eyes have already become accustomed to
this.  It is obvious that viewing
the frightening outlines of the house appeared in front of
Tiv. “This is such a block,” He thought. “It’s worth
and worth it. True, they will demolish it someday.
They will definitely demolish it."
   Somewhere, a dog barked, half asleep.
   How cold this night is. Only the beginning of autumn
neither, but He could not keep warm under two blankets
lami.
   The darkness thickened, covering the window, and from
it was performed by a woman of about fifty in
Big glasses with a kind massive face.
It was the dean.
   The dean slowly approached His bed
and smiled sadly, “Are you lying down?” - asked
she said in a familiar voice. He nodded quickly and
rasped: “Yes.” His palms instantly became
wet.  "I have to tell you something.
Do you understand?" - she said. B the answer is he-he began to breathe heavily, shrugged his shoulders, then...
As if he realized something and confirmed it again
nodded carefully.
   "Have you ever seen a dawn? - Her
the words sounded like subtle music and
notes scattered throughout the small room,
producing echoes in all four corners. "
A beautiful sight, isn't it?  Me in my youth
I couldn't stop looking at it. I grew up in the village -
la.  I got up early.  I loved watching how
it's dawn. It was wonderful."
   Then the dean said something else. Govo-
rila must have taken a long time. But He doesn't do anything
heard.  Because everything that she said
Kan, It was scary and impossible. "How is she
could have come - after all, she’s dead,”
His nile.  And He was not afraid of this revelation.
Tia.  But I was just a little embarrassed. As if
There was something extremely indecent about what happened.
no.
   He clearly heard the ticking of a clock. De-
Kan has already stopped talking. She looked
she looked at Him intently and was silent. He move-
poured himself into bed and intentionally coughed loudly
vowed to at least a little smooth out this un-
agility.  Then he looked into the corner of the room,
but the dean was no longer there. She disappeared like that
just as unexpectedly as it appeared. Room
It was empty.  He lay down again, staring
up to the ceiling.
   After a while he turned over
on his stomach and touched the floor with his chilly hand. There
There was water.  "Sooo?!" He pulled back sharply
hand and turned on the light.The switch was right
above the head of the bed.  In bright light
there is no need to guess anymore, I was dreaming about it all
or happens in reality.
   The entire floor in the room was flooded with water. Not
raised doubts that there was water in other
goy room.  Because although it would be that depth
It was thirty to forty centimeters.  Nobody
Of course, I didn’t measure it. It just worked out
that's the impression. In the kitchen, probably
the same thing comes out. And about the hallway and the
nothing to steal.  His slippers floated like
two lonely ships, lost in the Bess
the finite expanses of the world's oceans. And not-
who was there to help them.
   The vision was amazing. He felt his face
kami and expected that it would end soon -
Xia.  It won't last forever!
Of course not. Such things still happen to Him
Didn't happen. Any number of other things happened.
But there is no such thing. Never. It would be necessary later
oTalk thoroughly with your doctor. Talk-
rit - and that's it. Enough weirdness.
   But everything remained the same. Vision
didn't end.
   A slight trembling took over his body.  He
pressed himself tightly to the bed, pressed his face into
pillow and tried to throw one of those
things that I often threw away as a child.
He pretended to be asleep: he tried to make...
sitting completely motionless, he began to pretend
sniffle and even smack your lips,
It's like in a dream.  However, it continued
not for long.  Him inthe head came suddenly
clear and simple thought: why is this needed?
performance and in front of whom He, in fact,
pretending?  He knelt down, deeply
sighed and scooped up a little suspicious-
liquid into the palm. Water is like water. Nothing special. Then He carefully understood
haled her. The smell seemed familiar. Deeply
sighing again, he tasted the water on
taste and winced. She was salty, sea-
kaya.
   Live thirty years and still not
nope.  You can’t understand anything... But, it turns out...
It’s clear how simple, unpretentious and, in-
those with the devil knows what it is. Difficult
say, as in the house from which to Bli-
the nearest sea is no less than a thousand kilo-
meters, it could have been sea water. He
I didn’t know how to explain this. And it's unlikely
this could be explained in general.
   Suddenly He felt relief, as if...
caught in something very confused and, in
in the end, he gave up on everything:
Come what may. And the world suddenly seemed to Him
as attractive as I didn't think I was
never.  Here it is. It, which is so long
tormented Him and gave Him no peace. It is now
here. All you have to do is extend your hand.
   Something light fell from above and, judging by
everything, small. It was something that fell on th-
fishing He shuddered in surprise and
looked up. The entire wall, near which
there was a bed, a huge map of the world hung
ra. Map Waspolitical. There are decrees on it -
Borders between states were delineated. And th-
states Were painted in the most diverse
different colors. This made my eyes dazzle. On
for a moment it seemed that it was about to come out of the yellow Avs-
tralia the kangaroo will jump out along with his
bag and starts jumping frantically around the room
those full of water, throwing bewilderment at Him,
ny views.
   The map has been hanging here since school. Her ku-
mother drank. One day He returned home, half-
having two twos - and the card was already on the wall
no.  New, colorful, big. Seeing
her, He automatically let go of the briefcase handle,
which fell to the floor as unnecessary. ZaB-
crawled onto the bed, began to pace around it,
knocking down the neatly laid blanket, and with
with delight seething in my soul, I looked
a precious acquisition.
   For a long time the map occupied His soul
significant place.  He didn't care
what an incomparable pleasure it is to find everything
new islands, straits, bays, seas,
countries.  There was something terrible about this activity
Harmless. Just wanted to know.
   Mother, when she had a chance, listened to him
talks enthusiastically about his findings
kah.  He used to sit in a chair. In hands -
Favorite blue cup. Drinks tea, listens and
SMILES.
   It soon became clear that water was dripping from
Oxotckoro sea. He touched the sea
exactly, as in the case of the floor, sharply
pulled it back.  Sea Wasjust as wet.
While swelling, drops fell from it more and more often
down - into the gap between the bed and the wall. And
- on the floor. This happened before His eyes.
It was difficult not to believe what was happening. A
believing is even more difficult.
   Near Oxotckum the sea Was drawn in
peninsula of Kamchatka.  Mother went there years ago
five years ago, when he became seriously ill
grandfather  And after the death of my grandfather, I remained in
village.  I got a job as a librarian. Since then
They have never seen each other since then. At first mother
wrote letters. Lots of letters. Sometimes they add
Lala money.  But He did not answer, and the money
sent back. When the mother stopped pi-
Apparently, He got scared and, in turn, became
fussy to send letters to Kamchatka. But
I received no response to any of them.
   He did not take his sore eyes off his car-
you. Now the water flowed in a small stream and
gradually arrived.  It's good that He lived
on the first floor. Otherwise this would have happened.
He pinched himself painfully on his right cheek.
   Lately the map seemed to him
suspicious. And two or three days ago she became
la almost unbearable. As soon as He lay down -
went to sleep and turned off the lights, seas and oceans
they began to make noise over him. The map came to life. He
closed my eyes and heard the whistles of steamships,
the clatter of train wheels, the melancholy howl of waves
kov, roar of tigers.  Sometimes it worked
even hear the voices of people who
they shouted something.  Sometimes quieter, sometimes louder. One
voiceALWAYS drew attention to yourself. He
shouted louder and longer than the others, words
but complaining about fate.
   A saving thought came to him: “What?
if water poured from the map every night, and
The next morning it would dry up or somehow disappear.”
But it immediately became clear that this was nonsense. Ta-
who simply could not be. Getting up at night
go to the toilet or somewhere else, He couldn’t find it
no water around.
   He went limp and sat up in bed again. Then
looked straight ahead with a long glance
house - and screamed. Screamed, screamed, screamed.
Taking small breaks, He typed in
lungs for more air and screamed again. B
one of these respites He heard that in
someone insistently rings the doorbell.
   Strange thing.  Who needed a call?
thread at a time like this? Maybe thieves? No. Thieves
they don't call. They are. We should open it. But
There was water below. He was afraid of her. What if she
will disappear somewhere.  Then He can use
to chase with her. He decided to sit in
bed and wait.  It doesn't matter what.  Just
wait.
   Holos were heard on the landing
sa.  Knock.  Apparently, fists on the door.
"Seryoga, open up! Are you alive?!" What a stupid
question. The voice seemed familiar.
   He lay down with difficulty on his back, looking straight
in front of you.
   The door was broken. Broke amazingly quickly
ro. Specialists. The broken door produced
there was such a roar, As if at the same time, like
on command, ona company of soldiers fell on the parade ground
full combat equipment. To the room Quickly
three entered. Zhenya was ahead. They entered
straight through the water, as if not noticing it.
   And He lay in bed, without changing position, and
did not seem to show the slightest respect to those who entered.
of our interest.
   - Seryoga, what are you doing? What hurts?
   VoroByev's voice was not carefree, like
Usually, and partly even scared. Warehouses-
I got the impression that Zhenya’s excitement
I even lost a little weight.
   - The doctors have arrived. We called an ambulance
get out. They'll look at you.
   A woman's head peeked out from behind the door,
horror was clearly visible on her face. Head
said "oops" and disappeared. It seems it was
Zhenya's wife.
   “Hello,” said the doctor.
   The doctor must have really wanted
sleep.  The patient did not respond with a greeting
greeting.  He continued to look straight
in front of you, as if an ambulance were arriving
his power did not touch him in any way.
   - What worries you? - the doctor asked and
took a couple of steps towards the blood
tee.
   He turned his head and saw that in
there are a lot of people here. The man standing closest was
in a white coat. The man was tall. Medium
them years old.  With blue, cold eyes. He
looked closely at the man's legs
ka, who were already knee-deep in water, and
said dully:
   - Water.
   The man also looked at his feet and
asked politely.
   - Water? What worries you?
   He didn't answer. ANDrepeated:
   - Water.
   Then he lay down as before - staring at
ceiling.  And without expression he added, As if
about myself:
 - It was wonderful.
   Those standing in the room looked at each other.
   It was getting light.

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