The career in a distant lands at eastern direction has come to the end suddenly.
Somewhere jammed a gear, a wheels of a mechanism stopped for a several seconds.
And when a phone calls, a runnings with suitcases and a writings of election's hieroglyphs in compliance of traditions of masters of cardboard boxes have begun, it has appeared, terms have been already missed.
But the world not without kind people. There was a new position, post. The new position, as well as the former "east" career, has been obviously connected with a fishing. After unhealthy work it is important to have an opportunity to have a rest ...
By inertia the failed candidate, and nowadays - the high-ranking official, was reading a media sourses.
The Chelyabinsk region. The huge landslide has come down.
"It - isn't close ..."
What for a jokes?! Again about a landslide. But already absolutely in other place. Though the place too, in a sense, a remarkable.
A certain architect, figuratively speaking, came to the square and began to bow: "Forgive, people kind!" "About what you?" "I have created construction on the place of the big landslide. My soul isn't quiet. Over a time underground waters will find new ways. Construction, under my management created, will slip down. And will reach the buildings located below and the people living there. When it will be? Precisely I can't designate date. But after bridge failure in Italy I can't sleep peacefully. Sin! Sin! Forgive me, people! How can I pray for my sin to receive forgiveness? But you have heard my recognition, maybe, will be able to escape!"
Or it is the suspiciousness, the unrealistic assumptions?
The former candidate, and nowadays the official, has sighed: "All of us have located on a big landslide!".
Sometimes philosophical thoughts were coming to him. So and now happened. "The money for this construction on surface of this landslide were spent a very an impressive. Why not buy for the money in a normal place a normal house? To live without flags and excursions, but in a safety and relative comfort. Maxim Gorky was also a journalist. He rented villas... But we are not "such"! "I go on the grass, in the dew of the feet urine. I'm the same as everyone, I (...) want!" Onto the place of the dots in brackets the former candidate was changing different verbs. A some a joking.
Then the former candidate has continued reading.
But here and pleasant information! His follower, designed to win the elections, which he (the former candidate) already lost, studies the local elective legislation and scratches his nape. Some necessary for him (the "new" candidate) provisions cannot be discovered.
"Do the auto-rotary motion, do!", - the former candidate has ironically thought. - "In any case, you have shifted from those places to where it is planned to pump big money! Anyway, but a certain advantage of my failure is. A lot of money, - you need the right people. If you win, - they will shake hands with you. (Later all the same you will be moved somewhere. Look at your biography). And if you will lose, somewhere near the North Pole for you from ice the small office will be arranged. Some you ... not "our"! Very business. For any sort of defaults you are not very is suitable!".
The former candidate started to hum in an ironical style: "And we are guys, and we are guys - of the seventieth latitude!"
The phone rang: "It is necessary to have a rest! A fishing trip ought to be prepared!"
October 2, 2018 11:37
Translation from Russian into English: October 2, 2018 - October 3, 2018.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Рассказ о Большом Оползне'.