At a speed of millimeter per year

That moss and lichen are not at all devoid of charm, you understand in Lisbon Star. There are cities - at least this city is such - which, like rocks, boulders, bottles, moshel. Even the misunderstanding of the Lisbon people of the same kind, the same roots. Even the wine from unripe grapes here is called "green" - "Verde". At the eastern pole of the vulgar Latin, in Chisinau, velor hats of rusty and bottle-colored once competed with Lisbon moss. To make sure of this, I had to cross the entire continent. The mossess crawling with a millimeter per year to the accompaniment of sewing machines, trams and accordion - this is Lisbon. He is the capital of all the provinces of Europe. You can impose another image to him. There are so many walls lined with tiles and tiles, as if you were in a giant bathroom. But the bathroom is also the province of the apartment, at home. Or another image. To the flea markets of Bessarabian towns - units, underwear, lipkan - are usually sculpted by artisan shops, artillery shops, and van cooperators. You can really buy everything in them, but “all” of the third grade: from immortal female coco to marmalade lobules. The bargain goes in a hurry, in attachment, as if at any moment, a whistle could scream and the raid. This is also Lisbon. And again defenselessly provincial.

In the station Lisbon cinema, I watched the American espionage melodrama based on the novel of the English writer, in which the old Lisbon was shot. These are the most charming shots of the film. So in a review or in a literary article, a critical text suddenly begins to sparkle in the light of quotes. Of course, quoting Lisbon is a continuous pleasure. Any film will win thanks to its presence. This spy film ends with a happy end. The decadent London, who, due to circumstances, played the role of the intelligence service agent in Russia, after all the vicissitudes meets his Moscow lover in the Lisbon port. Life in Lisbon - such a wedding gift was chosen by the Briton by the Russian bride. Unfortunately, the film breaks off on this, and the viewer is not given to find out if the Muscovite liked the gift. The wives exported by foreigners from Russia are sometimes expected from the West - in exchange for their high spirituality - ultramodern comfort.

I remember that in the mid -seventies last century, a Moscow Call Girl, a guide, talked about her uncomplicated family life in Belgrade in the Kyiv Lybid hotel. In those days, the company could meet anyone: a human rights activist, an underground artist, a sex dissident. In such citrus groves, we then lived, unanimously curses Babay. So, the sex dissident complained that the "Yuga" "is" uncultured ", that they are gloomy. I remembered the complaints of this lady of the Polomma, leaving the Province Lisbon cinema. How would the life of the Moscow movie heroine work, have it stayed in Lisbon? If she could not understand that culture is not only and not so much inflamed quotes from Dostoevsky, but moss and lichens, who was crawling along the walls of the city to the accompaniment of sewing machines, trams and accordions, then her affairs would have gone badly, and life would have developed deep, truly unstable.