Аннотация: The Sketch about the Professor Dowell's head in the Rech Pospolita
The Sketch about the Professor Dowell's head in the Rech Pospolita
Sergei Sergeyevich decided to engage in literary work.
He walks along the street of his city and sees - a book exhibition and a theater festival in a one flakon. Behind a glass stands a group of people and is talking about something.
Sergei Sergeyevich enters the pavilion.
It turns out that the famous writer Belyaev talks about a work of a science fiction writer.
Sergei Sergeyevich absorbs the recommendations of a science fiction writer, then comes home and decides to write a fantastic story.
What to write about? About the man-fish?
There are some nuances here ...
About the head of Professor Dowell ...
Again, something is not well ...
I"ll write a story in the style of a historical fantasy ...
Take, for example, the Rech Pospolita ...
Sergei Sergeyevich felt a surge of vigor.
If I rotate a plot such a way that in the Rech Pospolita the immunity of the deputies of the Sejm is cancelling?
Sergei Sergeyevich thought deeply.
History was taught in the school in a such a manner, that they tried not to recall the Rech Pospolita. Sergei Sergeyevich had not so much knowledge about this state ...
But he seemed to gain a confidence from somewhere - there was no immunity for a deputies of the Sejm in the Rech Pospolita.
Yes, there was no need for immunity in this country, if you understood this, carefully. Who were the members of the Sejm? Szlachta (gentry). And the members of Szlachta, and without any parliamentary guarantees, were protected by all laws and customs, and their rights were guaranteed.
So...
But what to do?
It seems that in the Rech Pospolita there were tribunals - that is, courts similar to juries. The members of Szlachta secured guarantees for themselves - they not were judged by officials appointed by the elected king, but they judged - themselves?
Perhaps the plot should be built in such a way as to cancel jury trials in the Rech Pospolita?
Once again, somehow it doesn"t turn out ... If to write, that the Professor Dowell's head recommended and a someone executed this recommendations? A someone produced a cancel? But who?
You can come up with, you can invent but there is a fantasy, and there is a fiction ...
For example, a human-fish is a product of fantasy, and many read with interest.
And to come up with a person who has one head twice as large as the other - this will also be a fantasy, but some kind of uninteresting one.
In Sergei Sergeyevich"s memory, the words of Gogol began to emerge ... What did Gogol say? Something like - it's good to come up with an apple tree with golden apples, but not very good - a willow with pears? Or something like that...
Sergei Sergeyevich decided to come up with the head of a professor. And let a professor's head will advise something ...
It"s not such a simple thing to listen to science fiction writers.
How not to receive a willow with pears ...
September 3, 2019 17:06
Translation from Russian into English: September 3, 2019 23:40.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский "Скетч о голове профессора Доуэля в Речи Посполитой".