Birthday. Twenty five years. One of last summer
nights, already filled with a presentiment of a September cool. The
verandah sinks in a cigarette smoke, have lighted candles, persons
began not to disassemble, noise, din, loudly suffered and Chris Norman
groaned, someone has suggested to open windows, but have not opened,
long-legged Bazhenov has settled on a table among bottles and salads,
declared: "I of the Ork, a whale-murderer" then has immediately fallen
asleep. It have dragged on the second floor, there too something was
ready, someone has left, candles, having a shower bath stearin tears,
have burnt down to a wooden candlestick, that has charred, light has
grown dim, and all has little by little calmed down.
It has opened eyes and has looked
at hours. Figures in a green rectangle, and a zero three forty five
were replaced with a zero three forty six. The risen bad weather
condensed a pre-dawn twilight; pulling a sports jacket, it has
approached to a window - to disassemble nothing, layered dregs, only is
audible, as below, under a terrace, waves break about artificial rocks
and under a floor concrete piles shudder. It is necessary to gather.
Money copeck, and to what now money, but in a luggage carrier untouched
sandwiches plus a thermos. It would be possible to tell so: to death
remains five sandwiches.