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Gorin

March 12, 2010 Viktor Shenderovich

On the seventy year of birth

His mighty irony seemed an amulet from misfortune.

When asked about the cardiogram - after the first heart attack, two weeks before trouble, he replied: "Some teeth were a success."

The sadness and joy of life were inseparable in Gorin. Multiverse despondency did not spend the night in his soul. He was the embodiment of the ancient Hasidic paradox that a wise man is a cheerful man.

But how seriously he reacted to his gift! Or did the gift of God manifest itself on a scale of intentions? Munchausen wrote a thirty -year -old man ...

He led behind him upstairs - to that rope, fixed in heaven staircase, for he knew for all that there was no support more reliable.

There were not a gram of banality in his brilliant dialogs - always a fencing game of thought, always a blow to the anti -income!

“This is not a people. - Is this not a people? This is worse than the people. These are the best people of the city! " And, laughing with happiness, you smoke in the air flows of the Gorinsky paradox ...

His irony was the highest sample, which, according to the hedgehog of Litsa, "restores the destroyed by pathos." But Paphos was subject to Gorin: one of the few, he had the right to this gold vocabulary, for his own soul did not know inflation.

Are there many those who were our idols in his youth - and in three decades they never disappointed with either a word or an act? And how many people want to ask for advice when you yourself are fifty?

Now no longer ask.

He died in the days when the wheel of time began his next creaky turn - and again counterclockwise. He heard this creak, but did not have time to see how the new vulgarities began to pour new nonsense - with the same, described by him, a serious expression on his face ...

Hearing from the TV (I no longer remember, from whom) about some federal vertical, Gorin grinned sadly: Russia is a horizontal country ...

The natural taste did not allow him to tear the shirt in public. He overcame the tragedy of being with laughter - as his great predecessors and co -authors taught. The faithful first profession, he made an honest diagnosis, but gave hope.

His favorite words were: "Everything will be fine."

- What is death? He said at the Panchid according to Zinovia Gerdt. - Atoms came together, the atoms diverged - what does it matter?

Such an immortality of the soul was evident for him. And only a person who was so related to life and death could write “Munchausen” and “Swift”.

Everyone is given by his faith, and when the atoms diverged - Gorin remained ... his mind, his smile - they are here in each of us. Everything will be fine. You promised, Grigory Izrailevich ...

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