Аннотация: The Rector of the Institute of China and Korea. A comic tragedy.
The Rector of the Institute of China and Korea. A comic tragedy.
Dedicated to Vladimir Mayakovsky, the son of the forester.
Epigraph:
While we are living,
a lot of all sorts
dirty seashells
are sticking (are attaching)
(to our body,) to our sides.
Vladimir Mayakovsky.
The following dramatis personae are participating:
Stewardess
Deputy Head
Minister
Chief
Deputy Secretary
LOCATIONS OF ACTS:
I. The cabin of the service aircraft.
II. Cabinet in one of the Towers.
III. Residence.
ACT I.
The flight attendant brings coffee.
Deputy Head:
Is there a tea?
The stewardess brings tea.
Deputy Head (to the Minister):
Chief gave the command. They instructed me to do a business trip. I bought special earplugs.
He shows purchased plugs for ears.
Minister:
We won't need that. We will arrive at the place of events by helicopter, we will inspect everything from above. The Headquarters of the Chief Quartermaster planned everything. Unlimited financial and material resources. An air bridge is organized. To intervene in the resolving of problem is only to create the unnecessary difficulties.
I have already agreed how we will spend time. The Head of the municipal district - where the emergency is now - he has a brother. This brother is engaged in martial arts. He visits Shaolin. So we will fly, we will go to Shaolin. There are 300 kilometers to China. So we'll get there quickly.
Deputy Head:
It is interesting! I for a long time wanted to show Sasha something interesting. Yes, and Vladik with Borea can be taken.
Minister:
I will invite my relatives, too, since you do not mind. Let's use the air bridge.
Deputy Head:
And the currency? Yuan?
Minister:
I was addressing the Governor. He is some kind of a person without understanding. We need to take a closer look at him. But the Head of the district will solve all the problems. Now timber is in price...
Deputy Head:
So, I call my family. Let them flies out.
Minister:
And I am calling my relatives.
They are taking out cell phone handsets.
ACT II.
Deputy Head:
Good to see you! A month has passed, but I remember with pleasure our trip to the emergency site, and then to Shaolin.
Minister:
This admirer of martial arts, our guide, he is engaged in teaching. He is a normal person. He is not glueing to our women, he behave politely with children, he not rude. I gave, allocated him a sports hall (gym). And women can attend the martial arts section, as well as children. For women, activities are good for the figure. And children are distracted from bad habits, they play sports. Classmates envy them. They were in Shaolin- where Bruce Lee himself studied oriental techniques.
Deputy Head:
A great idea! But he will not work for free, to lead the section.
Minister:
Give him a position! Who now runs the Pacific Coast Institute at the Academy of Sciences? Any uncommunicative bespectacled man (with great self-importance) who has never been to Shaolin?
Deputy Head:
It is better not to contact the Academy with this idea. Over the past hundred years, they have become accustomed to independence.
But at the position of the rector of the Institute of China and Korea at our Main University he can be appointed.
Minister (with some doubt):
Right immediately - the rector?
Deputy Head:
Not immediately. For six months he will host the TV program "How to become a Chinese millionaire." The people will get used to him. People will find out that there is such a specialist of high level. He is able to speak Chinese. And who else can? Old people, grandpa from the Foreign Ministry's reserve?
Minister:
Yes... We all are faced with the need to conduct conversations, negotiations in English...
But, in general, the idea is good. Soon there will be the first training session. If anyone wants to study - both women and children - let them sign up. The gym is great. All conditions. In the Center. Not far from the Square. Today they train. Tomorrow they will receive diplomas of higher education. And the day after tomorrow, - if they will wish, - diplomas of a doctor of sciences and of a professor. Without an unnecessary swallowing of dust.
Deputy Head:
A great idea.
ACT III.
Chief:
Who is invited as an expert on the Eastern politics?
Deputy Secretary:
The Rector of the Institute of China and Korea at our Main University will be invited. A fresh person. He knows Chinese. He is able to speak Chinese. He hosts a program about China on TV. He is universally respected. He has a great reputation.
Chief:
Prepare materials.
(Curtain).
2023.
Translation from Russian into English: May 3, 2023 16:59.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Ректор Института Китая и Кореи. Комическая трагедия'.
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