Alexander Ulanov. Sliding

“To bark! Batterfly! To be more chandeliers! Men, guys !!! Listen to me! Consider! Fred:“ Bohemian rapexia ”, five minutes fifty -seven seconds! ...“ Dip perpl ” -“ child in time ”, ten minutes eighteen seconds!“ Ice Zeppelin ” -“ Stairs to the sky ”, exactly eight minutes! ..“ Bitles ” -“ Bitles ” "Вчера", две минуты четыре секунды! "Роллинг Стоунз": "Анджи", четыре минуты тридцать четыре секунды! Саймон и Гарфункел - Грабор, проснись сейчас же! "Мост над шумной водой" - четыре минуты пятьдесят две секунды! Миссис Робинсон! Сколько? Всем стоять!.. "Моррисон": "Беглые в дожде", семь минут пять секунд. "Энималс": “The House of the Rising”, four minutes of thirty seconds! List of rock formations - a good toast when meeting a new millennium ...

The east of the novel is not China or even Russia. This is the east coast of the United States, even more precisely - New York , a crazy city, about which the Americans themselves say that it is not America. And the West is, respectively, the coast of the western. Between which Grabo, Lizonka and other characters swing.

Lifestyle - spontaneity and involuntary. "The main thing is to do it by surprise. This is the main point in any relationship." Incredible mobility. They go to one place, turn out in an hour in a completely different one. Sicks at home and in bars, random brawls (not fights!), It is not clear why the emerging. "Alex hit his head in his stomach, but his stomach turned out to be hard. Then Pop pulled him by the leg, and he fell next to him. Pop saw his face and, as far as he could clearly, said: you bombed Czechoslovakia. There is no cross on you." Completing the old acquaintances and instantly appearing new ones from where. Life is unknown at what means. Driving rights with a photograph of Mickey Mouse . The mannequins of the presidents, with whom they are photographed in different poses on the camera without a film. Absurd conversations (“Do you like to sweat?” Cribor asked the building without drafting pipes ” ). And sex, of course, in a horse dose. And on a sleeping girlfriend they draw a map of the ancient world - with the seas of the Libyan and Egyptian, with a Delphus pyphone.

Calm is avoided by any means. "They rolled into a decent place, immediately understood it and turned back." The lifestyle requires chaos and gives rise to it. "Grabo was lying on the very edge of the bed, his head, half covered with an inverted blank of a plastic ceiling, seemed a random object among a heap with twisted sheets, a humanoid blanket, bottles, tubes, scattered cigarettes." With a desperate desire to find at least some order. "I wanted to drink, but he knew that he would not dare to touch this water until he would understand which country the world is in." The same thing in the New York room and the California motel, even expressed by absolutely the same words. However, words are also found as they themselves will want. "The obscurantism of the Araucaria." Swimming in absurdity. "Movements should be meaningless, devoid of the truth of life." The derealization of the world (which is not very real in California and New York).

Everything is a carnival. War too . “Drink for free, at the expense of the establishment. Your today was shot down by ours. The most secret,” says the bartender-American about the F-117 shot down in Serbia. And its own death is perceived by detached as a movie. The truck falls from the mountain road, "Around the start of shaking, exploding, something from the movie. Winnie thought that he had once seen such films, but he did not like them. He was hit, hollowed and stroked, after seven minutes he completely charged with a smile on his face. Then he took off the ring from his left hand, decided: I would sleep."

Life suspended in the void. "The buildings around were painfully acquaintances, only something was placed somehow. Where his house is located, Pop did not know and therefore decided to go in circles until he accidentally stumbled upon him." It’s not about emigration, the characters of the month resemble the “valcous” Bertrand Blie, who did not leave from France. And in Russia there will be, more and more such "suspended".

Is this electric, electrizing freedom ? A demonstration of how much independent of money can be taken from life? Or an attempt to spark chaos, is it a Brownian movement that turns life into nothing? Electricity treatment from nervous disorder? Probably all at once. "The sparkling, endless, perfectly flat walls of the buildings did not allow them to lift their heads to see the sky. Succous sirens, Undins and Dyatyes hid under the facades of the houses, dumping dead tongues. Polling at the lime of bowel movements, advancing in the hands of the bichugs sleeping in the night parks, dancing with a man's hands in the Chinese city and Mexicans among the city Garbage tanks, we get an unheard of experience of liberation ... Now you can kneel in front of a noble lady in the middle of the fifth Avenue - and they will understand you ... to become insolent to the state until the body begins to glow, and then burst into the fish shop, inhale its slippery air and dissolve, like a salty smoke. "

And yet - piercing tenderness, hiding behind a stem and rudeness, but impregnating everything. “I want to look at your heart. At your slobberry heart. I want to melt it in my hands, and then put it in p ... animal caresses, because it is human: cats do not know how to stroke each other, they don’t have such smooth skin ... They fell into bed, decorated with sad smiles, with smoothness of falling fluff, barely standing on cotton legs.”

And perception, heated openness and freedom. The ocean taste like a bulb , the moon and a turtle live in it. "Kosyaks of killer whales. They jump out of the waves, smile, and at the time of their jump the ocean becomes empty and free. This is better than hallucinations." You can change clothes and girls - to show them to your favorite area. "The coniferous millennial paws hung over their heads, acorns, bird nests, fish bubbles, Chinese numbers showered from above. - I lived here, Lizonka, a million years ago BC. I took my aunt to the October cinema. I was terribly afraid. Dinosaurs, wood, last year." And the coyots work as postmen, bringing letters, bitten by small non -prudent fangs. The mess makes even a long dish with pies amazing. "He has never seen such useful things in the house of the Greek."

A solid tree falls under the wind, flexible will swing in different directions, but will stand. There is nothing invulnerable than the void. This life will withstand any eleventh of September. “The first day of New York's bombing ended. Our first free day. Favorite,” he said. “We lived well. Come.”