| 6
aug 2007
ALICIA FRIDMAN (ATHENS,GREECE)
BANAL CASE
THE STORY
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This novel was boring and obyknovenen, as a rain in October and if something and allocated it from of some similar histories so it that there was this of histories with clever and judicious Linoj Surguchevoj. Female and muzheskogo a floor it seemed to her all friends, that so silly fall in love with such miracle in feathers could everybody but only not Lina, and many long did not trust, considered(counted) it as a gossip, a mistake(an error) or someone's malicious calumny. When, at last, non-believers Fomy were convinced of authenticity of surprising mismarriage even, there was no week that someone once again was not kept and has not asked at good-natured quiet Liny: « Well, how you can love such chmo? », on what it is constant with a pleasant smile made a helpless gesture: I love supposedly and anything I can not make.
Really, Vetvitsky, object reckless Lininoj passions, were mean enough type, and people, the nobility not known about its relation to Line adhered to such opinion on it. And the relation was frankly bestial, we shall tell directly. From the moment of their acquaintance when Vetvitsky has elicited at the nice girl tram talonchik, it in every possible way used Linu. You will tell: so the world, and even an embodiment of unselfishness is arranged, happens, involuntarily someone uses. Quite right, but to make it it is possible differently. It is possible to use a principle of a mutual exchange: you me, I you, it is possible to pay in sonorous or other coin, it is possible to consume the person on a freebie, and it is possible to consume on a freebie and to wipe about it foots. And so, Vetvitsky concerned to last type of consumers, blessing Linino the natural good nature multiplied by selfless love, allowed to behave thus without the slightest unpleasant consequences.
Vetvitsky did not give Line colors and did not speak compliments, but every Saturday it came back from it with the swelled polyethylene package, bitkom the filled dirty linen. Washing of windows and floors in its apartment for a long time, almost in half a year after the beginning of their novel, has turned in sacred Lininu a duty. In the evenings from work (and it worked as the bookkeeper in small firm and often sat up late, not because of zhestokoserdechiya the boss that is why, that as the incorrigible owl has elicited the sanction to come at two o'clock later) Lina one always came back, run reaching with a stop of the bus up to the house on badly shined(covered) deserted street, but it was necessary Vetvitskomu to be unwell slightly as the free-of-charge nurse there and then appeared with a stock of medicines. All fine household services what one person can render another as that: to carry a coat in a dry-cleaner, to wash up a toilet bowl, to pay on mail for a subscription of the newspaper "Facts", to find the inexpensive good stomatologist, etc., Appeared Linoj at all for thanks because nobody spoke thanks it. All was perceived as due. Besides you will tell, that the good wife never exposes to the husband the account(invoice) for cooking of dinners or washing of floors; but that's just the point, that Lina was not Vetvitskomu the official or informal wife.
As a matter of fact, it was to it anybody.
On such idea inevitably natalkivalo behaviour Vetvitskogo. To take even that circumstance, that during their novel Lina and day has not lived in its apartment. After sex it exposed for a door or early in the morning, or in the evening if was not so late. To the mistress so do not concern, so do not concern even to the girlfriend on sex. So it is possible to behave only with the casual person. Thus it is necessary to consider, that veins Vetvitsky one, both anybody and could prevent to continue nothing to it term of stay Liny on the living space. But what for? The Moor has made the business, and give, lynx to doors, and « I shall call, when I can ».
If Lina the novel with Vetvitskim did not hide and did not jump aside from friends in the street it with anybody from the environment never acquainted it, and they went together on streets extremely seldom. it did not build any plans for the future and if built, as a rule, with other women in leaging roles about what Lina learned(found out) with delay and long cried. When mother Liny has died, it not that that has helped(assisted) nothing with the organization of funeral (anybody and did not count on it), but at all has not wanted to listen to her story interrupted by tears and has simply thrown a telephone tube.
Having learned(Having found out) about pregnancy Liny, it has categorically demanded to make abortion, having threatened with full break of attitudes(relations). When after abortion Linu have put in hospital, it has never come, because has left for Crimea with any Vikoj, barmenshej from cafe.
Once in a state of intoxication it has broken Line a nose; fortunately, all sroslos is normal and without operation.
In general, attitudes(relations) of these people could be reduced to the simple scheme(plan): on Monday it does not call, on Tuesday it does not call, on Wednesday it does not call (it to call is not solved, it becomes angry), on Thursday in nine evenings it suddenly calls (it just has come home): it wanted sex, immediately! it goes to it(him,them), at all not having had a bite after day of work, and in an hour goes back, asking destiny that has carried by and this time (It hates a condom, and tablets are counter-indicative to it). Friday it is passed(missed), on Saturday it since morning takes away its linen, prepares for some days, on Sunday it lives the life, and it sits, having compressed by a lump at the TV, and waits: suddenly will call? Sometimes it calls, but is rare, not more often time in one and a half month. More often it occurs(happens), when at it something is not got on and it is necessary to give vent on someone to rage.
The most curious, perhaps, that these attitudes(relations) not the year last, not two, but nine years. Exactly nine years clear head Lina, that Vetvitsky good assured itself, but much gone through person, it is necessary to wait marries it only a little and then its heart will be thawn also by it. The loving woman, known business, and will find advantages in feature; but the word of honour, was easier to find something attractive in feature, than in this sad subject.
Long, early grown bald Vetvitsky was far not a handsome man, and the overwhelming majority of women showed to it(him,them) any similarity of interest only when at it were money. Money at started up in single navigation on the sea of the big business of the former engineer were not often; but when they managed to be earned additionally, a considerable share of profit enticed different dexterous dinamistki. Abrupt and imperous Vetvitsky was only with Linoj; other women did(made) with it that wanted. All transient « runnings on the party(side) » came to an end equally: without a penny in a pocket, grown thin and bare as a March cat, it came to Line (represent, itself came, what happiness) and asked money. In a duty(debt). The duty(debt) was not given never. However, we shall not add in and without that a sickening portrait of a black paint: there was such all time five-six for nine years, and it borrowed(occupied) a little so gigolo Vetvitsky was not.
It is possible to tell still about Vetvitskom, that it was the boor and matershchinnik, that in bed it was rough, that it last years did not read anything, except for "?»?n-info", but, it appears, all is the superfluous information will add nothing to the main epithet: cattle. It is much more interesting to understand, why it loved Lina, not was(former) neither mazokhistkoj, nor idiotkoj.
Linu her kindness has ruined at all; as many women, it has fallen a victim of too developed imagination: in khamovatom the boring subject it has suddenly beheld the little boy who has lost in this terrible world. You will tell: what boy, at it already temples(whisky) have thinned? Certainly, the boy growing old zhlob did not resemble at all; but in fact such things are clearly visible to everything, except for enamoured women. The image born from imaginations the most scandalous facts and when, at last, and up to Liny it is has reached(is cunning) long could not shake, that instead of the little boy in the favourite person the adult cynical egoist on a regular basis wakes up, action was entered with other factors: age Liny, clearly, not looked younger in the course of time and not got prettier from this connection, fear to remain one (it is banal, but there's nothing to be done, is such), a habit, and that strange feeling which is better it is expressed in a joke about a suitcase: both to bear(carry) hard, and to throw out it is a pity. How so, it is so much years together, it is made, gone through, and during that moment when it, similar, just about will estimate(appreciate) it really so much, all to tear?
Besides Vetvitsky was fairly clever, artful and has well studied(investigated) character of the girlfriend: hardly it felt, that in her head dangerous ideas on break start to wander, it was a little softened and started to behave more or less normally. As in all similar symbioses, both of the partner were rather necessary each other. To it the coming maid and « the woman for emergency » was necessary, to it let illusion, but to love, let negative, but emotions, and, likely, to it these unequal, exhausting attitudes(relations) even were more necessary: it here will leave, and there will be an emptiness. it is free also absolutely alone in four walls though howl though cry. Besides in similar mismarriages of last the hope dies to marry.
As all on light, novel Liny and Vetvitskogo evolyutsioniroval in due course, but, alas, at all in that direction of which the woman dreamed: the further, the more inconsiderately and more roughly there was it, and that it struck on the spot by a simple reason is more often cried: « You have already left in circulation, look at yourself to whom you are necessary? » Eventually, friends ustali to persuade and explain Line, having solved(decided), that it will last till an old age and consequently all were extraordinary struck with news, that Lina not only that has torn with the exploiter, but even has broken to it a physiognomy and has kicked downstairs. The last was, certainly, exaggeration; but Lina and Vetvitsky have indeed left, and it is absolutely unexpected for the last.
There was it so.
Some months prior to break Vetvitsky has disappeared from Lininoj lives. it answered one or two shy calls so is angry, that belittled by a long-term habit to concede the woman has burst into tears and has not dared more to disturb so important person. Line one explanation has occurred only: other woman and seriously. To watch(keep up) it, to ask at neighbours it considered(counted) humiliating; hence, it needed to experience only and muchitsya with jealousy and uncertainty. And what was her pleasure when one greyish April day it without the prevention(warning) has arisen on her threshold: all the same, native, unshaven, in a shabby brown leather jacket.
it has allowed to embrace itself(himself), did not interrupt, as is usual, her babble and has willingly eaten fried eggs with bacon then, vytershi a napkin of a lip, has made the tragical face and has uttered:
And in fact I have come to say goodbye.
What? How? At Liny inside all has broken. But it estestvennejshuyu has not had time to finish thinking about an idea « Another! I and zn
. » as Vetvitsky has continued in the unexpected image:
Soon me will kill. Can, in a week. So I have come last time.
Only in three minutes shaken(amazed) Lina has found gift(for nothing) of speech.
What has occured(happened)?
That, that! has contemptiously drawn in lips Vetvitsky. it is clear, accident.
However, it nevertheless snizoshel up to Liny also has told, in what business.
You know, I have decided to trade in kitchen furniture. Together with one old friend, that it
. Were put in banks, they do not give the credit. Have borrowed(occupied) fifty thousand from serious people. Have bought(purchased) in Poland furniture in a wholesale warehouse, have paid for perevoz, for a customs clerance, in general, profit a cat naplakal. But a fifty-kopeck piece have returned and still slightly remains. And the day before yesterday this vermin was washed off with mine
with our money.
How?
Simply! Now a duty(debt) on me. Even if to sell an apartment and everything, that is, I shall not collect more 30 thousand. And it is people abrupt. it on a drum(reel) where my partner has got to. it babki drive. Which are not present.
Can, they will agree parts?
No! I begged, asked, they in any. Give at once everything, that took. Or
Lina! it has suddenly lifted to it eyes and has looked how did not look never. only you can rescue(save) me. Only you. Your apartment costs just 20 thousand.
After these words in kitchen(cuisine) the deep pause was established. it looked at it, not coming off as if(as) hypnotized a sight. it sat, having lowered(omitted) a head and compressed one hand another, trying to suppress a strong sudden shiver.
Yes, certainly, Sashenka in a trouble, it is awful
But
to sell an apartment? Where it will live? The apartment which has remained from mother everything, that at it is. On new habitation with her salary it for ten years will not earn. it will not return money, it already passed(took place) it. Also what then? In vagabonds?
Having understood her fluctuations, Vetvitsky has risen, has made five steps to it and has fallen to knees. Strangely enough, theatrical gesture has left completely not ridiculous.
Forgive me, favourite, - it has told very much prochuvstvovanno and is serious. I in fact understand all, to all I know the price, including to myself. You think, I do not know, that behaved all these years as last
And you sacred, clean, unusual. And you are right. I should leave, I you do not stand(cost).
When on Lininym to cheeks potekli tears, it has jumped, has dropped to it and has started to kiss. The rough stage, as usual, has ended in a bedroom, and keywords have been said:
I shall burst into tears(pay off) with debts we go to a registry office!
And Lina, red, rastrepannaya, crying, dared(laughing), has murmured, kissing rare reddish down on a breast favourite:
Well, I shall sell an apartment, - on what Vetvitsky has answered with a kiss and an encouraging retort:
An apartment while I shall not find the partner and money, we shall remove. And then we shall buy to themselves a private residence-θγπσψεχκσ.
Vetvitsky long developed on different lady a tempting theme, beholding in a ceiling and having a rest from sex. Then it wanted to coffee, and Lina has gone on kitchen(cuisine) which soon should cease to be her property. And though rarely all was wonderful, how it dreamed, at a kind clean kukhonki where almost all has been bought(purchased) and with love is picked up by her(it), heart Liny was compressed. But what to make, the fatal word is already told, and then, unless it is not necessary to pay for happiness? The main thing, at last it has proposed
Coffee at Liny was only soluble. it poured out in a cup two lozhechki, has heated up already boiled water in a teapot. When it, hurrying up, filled in coffee with hot water, the teapot has trembled in her hand and strujka has got on the big finger holded from above the handle of a cup. Not so from a pain water was not boiled water, is simple very hot as from unexpectedness Lina has dropped a cup on a floor. It was necessary to make all anew, besides the finger has reddened and has slightly swelled up a little.
Well you dig? on kitchen has entered Vetvitsky, naked on a belt(zone), but already had time to pull trousers.
Look, that at me with palchikom, - with naive koketstvom it has stretched to it a hand.
All at you through one place, - it is angry has pushed away it and has taken a cup from coffee. Fu, hot. Could not tell, I hardly to myself have not burnt language!
Having twisted, Vetvitsky has returned to a bedroom further to put on, and it has stood in the middle of kitchen(cuisine) in a silly pose with the extended hand, as if struck by a lightning. it was indeed struck with something, that it could not formulate at once, looking that on the slightly reddened finger, on a floor and a ceiling.
And suddenly this vague, but pierced through as the spear, was cast in chekannuyu the formula of the maximum stage of voluntary female slavery: « it for it sells an apartment and becomes bomzhikhoj, and it at all does not wish to regret it for the scalded finger ». My God, yes that it? In fact it in it does not see the person! it sees only that it is possible to take from it, and now selects the last, and in exchange does not wish to squeeze out from itself even usual words of sympathy. And! What it a silly woman! As soon as it will give it of money, all will end. What registry office, it will simply throw out it, as the worn out boot.
All nine years have suddenly risen before her eyes, and vainly it tried to find though something, though any episode softening a verdict: a silly woman! No, nothing was, one humiliations and a pain. And to this reptile
And for the sake of this vermin
After an overdue enlightenment in Line the terrible, unrestrained anger of quiet people, it dushil it has risen, and it not in forces was to resist to a sudden, mad impulse already. Having taken a cup of coffee, it has entered into a bedroom, has suited to faced to mirror Vetvitskomu and has poured out coffee to it on a head. A brown swill potekla on instantly reddened face on whom amazement was replaced by fury:
Idiotka!
!
The vermin! has shouted Lina so, that it has shuddered. from here! That your leg(foot) here was not!
it has rushed on it with fists, it has run out in a corridor, has opened a door and, having appeared on a ladder platform, has shouted in all voice:
Kill! Rescue(save)! also has begun to press buttons of calls.
Of 22-nd apartment has immediately looked out neighbour-ξςρςΰβνθκ Gennady Pavlovich, and it has rushed to it(him,them), specifying on appeared on a threshold of apartment Vetvitskogo:
I beg, Gennady Pavlovich, cause militia! This bastard has come to demand, that I have sold an apartment and have given it of money, and I do not want!
You say lies, the swine, - Vetvitsky has stepped was to it, but has stopped. As the person fairly clever and cowardly, it least wanted fight at the witness. Alone an another matter, but at the witness
Leave! has resolutely declared Lina. The door of 24-th apartment too was slightly opened, and though it did not love old gossip Emiliyu Markovnu lived in it, now presence of one more observer only has inspirited it.
And though Vetvitsky since a minute two has shouted, that it it have poured over coffee and that the madwoman scoffs at it psikhopatka, and to it, and Line, and it was clear to two witnesses: all is terminated(over), it is necessary to draw in a tail and to be cleaned(removed). That it also has made, having slapped at last a door, in hope, that the door will slam and Lina, not taken with itself keys, will be compelled(forced) to enter into own apartment by means of a breakage. But this last revenge is not has gone right: the lock in Lininoj doors was not closed automatically, only by a key.
When noise of the lift has abated, Lina has entered into the apartment, has silently closed a door, villages on a box for footwear and is unexpected for itself has laughed: little bit strained, artificial, and, undoubtedly, bitter laughter but has laughed. Has then begun to cry, has then washed and has gone to clean(remove) smeared on a floor of a bedroom a dark brown pool with a characteristic coffee smell: everything, that remains from the big nine-year love.
By the way, Vetvitsky has called in the same evening, about half ninth. Having learned(having found out) its voice, Lina has hung up and any more did not lift, though phone called still long time seven-eight.
ALICIA FRIDMAN (ATHENS,GREECE)
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