Reading - Victor Pelevin.

┌I apologize in advance for the obscene statements,┐
├but for some reason this version of the story differs from the original.┤
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                          Victor Pelevin.

  		P R I N C G O S P L A N A

    A small figure is running down the corridor. She is drawn with
 with great love, even somewhat sentimental. If you press
 the "Up" key, it will jump up, bend, hang on
 in the air for a second and will try to catch something above his
 head.  If you press "Down", she will sit down and try
 pick something up from the ground under your feet. If you press "Right", it
 will run to the right.  If you press "Left" - to the left. In general, she
 can be controlled using different keys, but these four are
 basic.

    The passage along which the figure is running changes. More
 partly it is something like a stone adit, but sometimes it
 becomes an amazingly beautiful gallery with a strip
 oriental ornament on the wall and high narrow windows. On
 torches are burning on the walls, and in the dead-end corridors and on shaky
 on the walkways above the deep stone mines there are enemies with
 naked swords - the figure can fight with them if
 press the "Shift" key. If you press some keys
 simultaneously with others, the figure can jump and
 pull yourself up, hang, swing, on the edge, and maybe even with
 run-up jump over stoneswells from the bottom of which
 sharp thorns stick out.  The game has many levels, from the lower ones you can
 move up, and from higher ones fall down - at the same time
 the corridors change, the traps change, they look different
 jugs from which the figure drinks to restore his
 vitality, but everything remains the same - the figure runs
 among stone slabs, torches, skulls on the floor and drawings on
 walls.  The goal of the game is to rise to the last level, where
 the princess is waiting, but for this you need to devote a lot of time to the game
 a lot of time.  In fact, to achieve in the game
 success, you have to forget that you press buttons and become this
 figure herself - only then will she have a degree
 agility required to fence, to leap
 through the cutting machines clicking in the narrow stone corridors
 in half, jump over holes in the floor and run along the falling
 down to slabs, each of which is capable of supporting the weight of the body
 only for a second, although there is no body, much less weight
 there is no figure, just as there is no figure, if you think about it, and those who break down
 slabs, no matter how convincing the sounds they make when
 falling knock.

    The prince ran along the stone cornice;  I had to make it in time
 crawl under the iron grate before it goes down,
 because there was a narrow-necked jug behind her, and she had almost no strength
 was: there were two wells with spikes left behind, and a jump from
 second tieron the floor strewn with stone fragments too
 cost a lot. Sasha pressed “Right” and immediately followed by “Down”,
 and the prince somehow miraculously crawled under the bars, descended
 already almost half.  The picture on the screen has changed, but
 instead of a jug on the bridge in front stood a fat warrior in
 turban and looked hypnotically at Sasha.

 - Lapin! - a disgustingly familiar voice came from behind, and
 Sasha felt a lump in the pit of his stomach, although there was absolutely no
 there was no objective reason for fear.

- Yes, Boris Grigorievich?

- Come and see me.

    The office of Boris Grigorievich is actually nothing
 was not an office, but was simply part of the room, fenced off
 several low cabinets, and when Boris Grigorievich
 walked around his territory, was above the surface of the cabinets
 the back of his bald head is visible, which is why Sasha sometimes thought that
 he squats near the billiards and watches
 movement of the only remaining ball, partially hidden
 board.  After lunch, Boris Grigorievich usually found himself in
 pocket, and in the morning, during golden time, mostly bounced
 from the sides, and the role of the cue was played by the telephone, the calls of which
 forced an ivory-colored hemisphere over the littered
 move the paper surface of the cabinet for a while
 faster.

    Sasha hated Boris Grigorievich for that special long time
 and calm hatred, which is familiar onlyliving with
 cruel owner of Siamese cats and those who read Orwell
 Soviet engineers. Sasha read all of Orwell at the institute,
 back when it was impossible, and since then every day I have found a lot
 reasons to shake your head with a wry smile. Here we go
 now, approaching the passage between two cabinets, he crookedly
 smiled at the upcoming conversation.

    Boris Grigorievich stood at the window and, for a long time, froze in
 each of the intermediate positions, practiced the "flight" strike
 swallows", and not with a bamboo stick, as quite recently,
 when he was just beginning to master the Budokan, and now
 samurai sword.  Today he was wearing "hunting clothes"
 made of green satin, under which one could see a wrinkled kimono of
 Shinobu patterned fabric.  When Sasha entered, he carefully
 put the sword on the windowsill, sat down on the mat and pointed at
 neighboring one.  Sasha, with difficulty tucking his legs under him, sat down and
 placed his gaze on a Honda poster with
 motorcyclist in high leather boots, second year
 making a turn on the closet wall to the right of Boris’s mat
 Grigorievich.   Boris Grigorievich put his palm on
 the processor unit of his “Eitishka” is the same as Sasha’s,
 only with a screw of eighty megabytes, - and closed his eyes,
 thinking about how to construct a conversation.

 -Have you read the latest Arguments? - he asked after a minute.

“No,” answered Sasha, “I don’t.”I'm writing it out.

 “In vain,” said Boris Grigorievich, picking up from the floor
 rolling up sheets of paper and shaking them in the air is an excellent
 newspaper.  I don’t understand what the communists are hoping for?
 Fifty million people were ruined, and now something else
 mutter. Still, it’s clear to everyone.

“Yeah,” said Sasha.

 “Or,” said Boris Grigorievich, “in America there are about
 thousands of women are pregnant by aliens. We have those too
 full, but the KGB is hiding them somewhere.

"What does he want?" - Sasha thought sadly.

Boris Grigorievich thought about it.

 “You’re a strange guy, Sanya,” he finally said. - Look
 Biryuk, you’re not friends with anyone from the department. Cause you know
 people around, not furniture. And you even scared Lucy yesterday. She
 Today he says to me: “You know, Boris Grigorich, whatever you want, but
 I'm scared to ride in the elevator alone with him."

“I’ve never ridden in an elevator with her,” said Sasha.

 “That’s why he’s afraid,” said Boris Grigorievich. - And you
 go, grab her by the pussy, laugh. You are Dale Carnegie
 read?

- Why did I scare her? - Sasha asked, wondering who Lucy was.

 “It’s not about Lucy,” Boris waved his hand, irritated.
 Grigorievich.  - You have to be human, understand? Okay, this one
 We will continue the conversation, but now I need you on business.
 Do you know Abrams well?

- Nothing.

 - How does the tower turn there?

- First press “C”, and then the cursor keys.Vertical ones can raise the gun.

- Exactly? Let's take a look.

    Sasha went to the computer;  Boris Grigorievich, something
 whispering and hovering his fingers over the keyboard for a long time, he called
 game.

“Here,” said Sasha, pointing.

 - Exactly. A century would never have guessed it.

 Boris Grigorievich picked up the phone and began
 dial up the number, and when the line responds, all the best
 rose from his soul and settled on his face.

 “Boris Emelyanich,” he said affectionately, “they found it.” Click
 tse, and then with arrows... Yes... Yes... Back also through
 tse... What are you saying, a-ha-ha-ha...

  Boris Grigorievich turned to Sasha, pursed his lips pleadingly and
 Not at all offended, he moved his fingers in the direction of the exit.
 Sasha got up and left.

 - A-ha-ha... On a sheet? Populos? I didn't even hear it. Let's do it.
 Let's do it. Let's do it. Hugs...

    Sasha went to smoke on the dark staircase, to the window, from
 of which a high-rise building and some
 shabby-beautiful terraces below. There was a place by the window sill
 special for him.  After lighting a cigarette, he usually looked at
 high-rise building - the star on its spire was slightly visible
 from the side, and because of the wreaths framing it, it seemed double-headed
 eagle;  looking at her, Sasha often imagined another
 version of Russian history, or rather its other trajectory,
 ending with the same point - the construction of the same
 high-rise building,only with a different emblem on the top. But
 Now the sky was somehow especially vile and it seemed even
 grayer than a high-rise building.

    On the landing one flight below, two people in identical
 overalls made of fine English wool;  both of them
 wide breast pocket stuck out along the nickel silver
 wrench.  Sasha listened to their conversation and realized
 that both of them are from the game "Pipes", or, in Russian, "Trumpets". Sasha
 I saw it, and even went to install it on the hard drive
 some deputy minister, but he himself didn’t like her
 complete lack of romance, superficial pathos and
 especially because in the left corner there was a nasty-looking drawing
 a plumber who started laughing when he
 there was a burst of pipes on the screen. And these two, judging by the conversation,
 were seriously interested in it.

 “They don’t load under the old contracts anymore,” the first one complained.
 overalls - they want currency.

 “And you go back to the beginning of the stage,” answered the second, “or
 In general, boot up again.

 - I’ve already tried it. Egor even went on a business trip to the plant,
 I tried to get to the director three times until I froze.

 - If it freezes, you need to press “Control - Break”. Or
 "Reset".  You know what Evgraf Emelyanich says - seven troubles,
 one "Reset".

To be continued.

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