The story of the stupid man. Aphorisms and quotes about stupidity
In one very rich village, a hut stood apart.
The fence is crooked, there is no well and the roof will soon be a hundred years old.
In that village - old and young knew - the owner was eccentric.
Whatever this fellow took on, everything fell out of his hands.
He was the son of a poor widow, and was, unfortunately, stupid
And as the legend says: he was hopelessly stupid.
Height was normal and weight was normal: and can not be canceled,
And so the widow decided to marry her son.
“Let's take a daughter-in-law into the house, we are not afraid of poverty,
And what's the use of wealth, if the wife were smart.
With her, like behind a stone wall, my son will live,
And it’s time for me to rest, everything has a time limit in life!”
This idea did not come true, everyone knew about the fool,
Mother wastes words in vain, the whole truth is on her face.
And there was no one in the village who would agree to become a wife,
It's better to live a century alone than a year with a bad little head.
Seeing no other way out, she went to a fortune teller, a widow mother,
“Tell me, what can I do to give my son back his mind in full?
The fortune-teller only grinned: “There are no such medicines, believe me!
But for your question, I am ready to give you a simple advice.
That mountain over there, do you see the top? There, even in summer it snows,
Even my father heard that true story that a wise old man lives there.
Here it is, I think it will help, and give an answer to your question,
Go your son, I hope you can? After all, the path to the elder goes up!”
And the path turned out to be not close, and he met a lot of people,
Hungry wolf, tried to find out how to satisfy his hunger?
The girl cried like rain, she could not stop:
She tearfully begged the fool to ask about her affairs.
Fool, marveled at the tree: with whom life brought him:
The floor - the tree is dressed in leaves, on the other - all the foliage has fallen.
There is a stream nearby, but there is little sense, he could not resist, he asked:
“It looks like something prevented you from gaining strength?”
The tree sighed sadly, quietly answered the fool:
“My roots are blocked, I want to get drunk - I can’t!
You tell sadness to the wise man, bring his answer to me:
I will be freed from these troubles, whatever you want, ask me!
The fool reached the top, the wise man listened to his grief,
He solved the problems of all, and blessed the fool on his way:
"Hurry home, that's my advice, you'll find the answer along the way,
Look, don't forget your friends, pass on my message!
The tree meets him, awaits his deliverance:
“The wise man said that a treasure is buried here, it is to blame for your troubles!”
And the tree of the fool prays: "Gratitude has no end,
Take all this treasure for yourself, and I will be glad of the water!”
“Excuse me, I’m in a hurry to go home, I’ll solve my question at home,
And the traveler will turn to you, and take the buried treasure.
To the weeping girl he said: “The wise man gave his advice,
In order for your crying to completely subside, the groom must be with you!
To the foolish girl: “My dear, take me with you, dear!
I agree to become your wife, let's get married with you ?!
“I have no leisure,” the fool said, “the wise man severely punished me,
Do not miss happiness on the way, I’ll go looking, let me pass!”
A familiar forest and a house nearby, and a hungry wolf in front of a stump,
The fool told the wolf everything that the wise man taught him,
And he did not forget to mention those to whom the sage promised success.
And he did not forget about himself: at home, what he went for is waiting!
The wolf, after listening to the fool, said: “And what did the wise man tell me?
How can I satisfy my hunger so that I can eat less and live longer?
“The wise man gave you his advice - eat the fool - live a hundred years!
But where is the fool to be found? Seek, and I must go!”
Many days have passed since that time, there was no news from the fool.
In vain his mother waited for him, fate was cruel to her.
A rumor spread through the forest that the wolf was no longer looking for food for the future:
He alone knows to the end about the fate of the poor fool ...
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Smart but stupid
(Parable of unknown origin)
One man liked to talk about people. About one he said: *Smart, but stupid*, about the other he could say: *Stupid, but smart*.
- Why do you say that? they asked him.
- One is smart in the main, but stupid in the details, - he explained, - the other is vice versa.
- And you yourself? - the question followed.
"I'm just stupid," was the reply.
- Why not? they asked him.
- Because it's stupid to talk about who is smart and who is stupid.
The questioner did not understand anything, only from annoyance he clicked the reasoning on the forehead, and walked away.
- Well done! - the reasoning man shouted after him. Now we'll both be smarter.
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Knowledge, not words
(Hassidic parable)
When Rebbe Levi Yitzchak from Berdichev returned home after the first visit to his rebbe-mentor, Shmelke from Nikolsburg, his father-in-law asked him:
What did you learn there that you couldn't learn here?
“I realized that the Universe has a Creator,” Levi Yitzhak answered.
- And for this it was necessary to go to Nikolsburg?
The father-in-law called the maid and asked:
- Tell me, does the Universe have a Creator?
“Of course,” the girl replied.
- Well? - turned to the son-in-law.
- She only speaks, - answered Levi Yitzhak, - and I know.
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Soul Vessel
(Christian parable)
Some brother said to the old man:
- Ava! So I often ask the holy fathers to tell me instructions for the salvation of my soul, but no matter what they tell me, I don’t remember anything.
The elder had two empty jugs. He told his brother:
- Go, take one of these vessels, pour water into it, wash it, pour out the water, and put the vessel upside down in its place.
The brother did the job. Twice more the elder asked him to do the same. When the vessel was washed for the third time, the elder said to him:
- Bring both vessels here.
When the brother brought it, the elder asked:
- Which of the two vessels is cleaner?
The brother replied:
- The one in which I poured water and which I washed.
To this the old man said:
-So is that soul, my son, which often hears the word of God - although it does not retain in memory anything that it hears, it is more purified than the one that never asks and does not hear the word of God.
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generous offering
(Christian parable)
Once an unknown important person came to the skete. He brought with him a lot of gold and asked the abbot to distribute the gold to the brothers.
The presbyter answered him:
The brothers don't need it.
But since the bringer was a very important person and convincingly asked for the fulfillment of his desire, the presbyter suggested that he put a box of gold coins at the entrance to the church, and told the brothers that the one who needed them should take the money from the box. However, none of the brothers not only touched the coins, but did not even look at them.
Then the elder said to the nobleman:
- God accepted your offering - go and give gold to the poor.
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Expensive work
(Modern parable)
One day an angel flew to see how people were working. He saw the hard work of a peasant. In one year the peasant received a rich harvest, and the next year turned out to be lean. I saw the angel of the artist, who worked on the painting for many years, but was in poverty. I saw a rich man who accumulated wealth, and then went bankrupt.
- Many people work hard, - said the angel, returning to heaven, - but rarely their work is paid at its true worth.
“There is a job on Earth that pays decently,” the elder angel answered. - It's a mother's job.
- Mothers work day and night, but I have never seen them get paid! exclaimed the young angel.
- The mother's job is the highest paid, because she is paid for with love.
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Get up!
(Sufi story)
One student asked his Sufi teacher:
- Teacher, what would you say if you knew about my fall?
- Get up!
- And next time?
- Get up again!
- And how long can it go on - everything fall and rise?
- Fall and get up while you're alive! After all, those who fell and did not rise are dead.
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Shadow dependency
(Taoist parable)
Penumbra asked the Shadow:
- You used to move - now you are standing still, before you were sitting - now you are standing. Why are you so fickle in your actions?
Shadow replied:
“Isn’t it because I’m like this because I depend on something?” Or maybe what I depend on also depends on something? Maybe I depend on the scales on the spine of a snake or on the wings of a cicada? How can I know why I am like this or different?
And after a while this man again said something stupid. And not just said, he repeated the SAME STUPIDITY. He did it, of course, by accident, but the fact remains - the same stupidity was repeated twice. And then people got confused. “How is it,” they thought, “how can such a respected person repeat the same stupidity twice?” And people's opinions are divided. Some said that it was all for a reason and again began to look for meaning in stupidity, while others believed that a person was simply testing them for quick wits, and also, though imperceptibly even for themselves, they were looking for meaning in the said stupidity. Again forgetting that in stupidity, apart from stupidity itself, nothing else happens.
How long, how short, but people, of course, did not come to any common opinion. And people decided to consider this stupidity a slip of the tongue, even though it was made twice. After all, the man was, no doubt, respected, and, no doubt, wise. And after all, so many, probably, various thoughts were spinning in his head, he had to face such versatile problems, that one could only wonder how he had not made a slip of the tongue before. And when they decided so, they immediately calmed down. And then the man repeated this stupidity again. And with such conviction, as if he himself did not consider it stupidity. And, of course, panic set in. After all, stupidity, said three times, can no longer be called a reservation. One could call the speaker stupid, but the point is that everything he said, except for this stupidity, was truly wise and correct. “What is this,” people thought, “are we really all so stupid that we cannot understand the obvious? Or is this person mistaken?” And people rushed to prove to each other that this is still stupidity. But again they failed. Because just as it is impossible to prove that a word is a word, you can hardly prove that stupidity is stupidity, because both are obvious. So it turned out that STUPIDITY is UNPROVABLE. And people continued to panic... Until the man repeated this stupidity for the fourth time. With more confidence than ever before. And here's the strange thing - people calmed down. "Well," they decided, "since this wise man thinks so, then this is not stupidity, but the truth, and this man is the wisest of all the wisest." And resigned to their own inferiority. This story would have ended here, if not for one fool. This fool (and he really was a fool, everyone knew this, and even he himself thought so) came to the man who said stupidity and asked: - You are really a wise person, you know everything, so answer me - why no one and never listens? Because you are talking nonsense. - But you also said stupidity, yes, yes, stupidity, I already understand them! What is the difference between us then? - The whole point is that you are a fool, and you only talk nonsense all the time, so no one will ever listen to you. But if you were smart, you would know that you only need to make smart speeches, and then the stupidity you said MIGHT BECOME LAW. The idiot chuckled and left.What is the meaning of this parable? And for everyone he is his own. Someone can count the exact number of mentions of the word "stupidity", someone will be surprised that only a fool could figure out what the essence and the matter is, and even then, being a fool, he did not understand anything, but someone decides that it is much easier for a wise man, having said stupidity, to elevate it to the rank of ultra-accessible truths than to admit to his own stupidity ... I must admit, I myself don’t know what the point is, but it’s like this - every fool will tell, but not everyone will understand...
P.S. But someone really makes stupidity a law ... Evaluate the words of the speaker, my friends, despite his authority!
Chapter 01
07. The beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord; good understanding in all who are led by him;
and reverence for God is the beginning of understanding; fools only despise wisdom and instruction.
22. How long, you ignorant ones, will you love ignorance? how long will the riotous delight in riot? how long will fools hate knowledge?
32. For the stubbornness of the ignorant will kill them, and the heedlessness of the fools will destroy them,
Chapter 03
35. The wise will inherit glory, but the foolish will dishonor.
Chapter 05
22. The lawless one is caught by his own iniquities, and he is held in the bonds of his sin:
23. he dies without instruction, and is lost from the multitude of his folly.
Chapter 06
32. Whoever commits adultery with a woman has no mind; he who does this destroys his soul
Chapter 07
04, Say wisdom: "You are my sister!" and call the mind your own,
05. so that they protect you from the wife of another, from a stranger who softens her words.
06. Behold, one day I looked out the window of my house, through my bars,
07. and saw among the inexperienced, noticed among the young people a foolish youth,
08. crossing the square near her corner and walking along the road to her house,
09. at dusk in the evening of the day, in the darkness of the night and in the gloom.
10. And behold, a woman, dressed as a prostitute, with a deceitful heart, met him,
11. noisy and unbridled; her feet do not live in her house:
12. now in the street, now in the squares, and at every corner she builds coves ...
Chapter 08
05. Learn, foolish ones, prudence, and foolish ones - reason.
Chapter 09
01. Wisdom built herself a house, hewed out seven pillars of it,
02. slaughtered the victim, mixed her wine and prepared a meal at her place;
03. sent her servants to proclaim from the heights of the city:
04. "who is foolish, turn here!" And to the dull-witted she said:
05. "Go, eat my bread and drink the wine that I have dissolved;
06. leave foolishness, and live, and walk in the way of reason."
13. The woman is reckless, noisy, stupid and knows nothing.
14. sits at the door of his house on a chair, in the high places of the city,
15. to call those who pass along the road, going straight in their own ways:
16. "Who is stupid, turn here!" and to the foolish she said:
17. "Stolen waters are sweet, and hidden bread is pleasant."
Chapter 10
01. Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son pleases his father, but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.
05. He who gathers during the summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during the harvest is a dissolute son.
08. A wise heart accepts the commandments, but a foolish one stumbles with his mouth.
10. He who blinks his eyes causes annoyance, but a foolish one stumbles with his mouth.
13. Wisdom is in the mouth of a wise man, but a rod is on the body of a fool.
14. The wise save knowledge, but the mouth of a fool is near destruction.
18. He who hides hatred has a lying mouth; and whoever spreads slander is stupid.
19. With verbosity, sin cannot be avoided, but he who restrains his mouth is reasonable.
21. The mouth of the righteous feeds many, but the foolish die from lack of understanding.
23. For a fool, a criminal act is, as it were, fun, but wisdom is characteristic of a reasonable person.
Chapter 11
12. The foolish one expresses contempt for his neighbor; but a reasonable person is silent.
29. The one who destroys his house will receive the wind as his inheritance, and the foolish will be the slave of the wise in heart.
Chapter 12
08. A man is praised according to his understanding, but he who is corrupt in heart will be scorned.
11. He who tills his land will be satisfied with bread; and whoever follows in the footsteps of idlers is a dullard.
15. The path of a fool is straight in his eyes; but whoever listens to advice is wise.
16. A fool will immediately show his anger, but a prudent hides an insult.
23. A wise man hides knowledge, but the heart of fools speaks foolishness.
Chapter 13
16. A good mind brings pleasure, but the way of the lawless is cruel.
17. Everyone who is prudent acts with knowledge, but the stupid one flaunts stupidity.
20. A fulfilled desire is pleasant for the soul; but it is unbearable for fools to turn away from evil.
21. He who deals with the wise will be wise, but he who makes friends with fools will become corrupt.
Chapter 14
01. A wise woman will build her house, but a foolish woman will destroy it with her own hands.
03. In the mouth of a fool - the scourge of pride; but the mouth of the wise guards them.
07. Get away from a foolish person, in whom you do not notice intelligent lips.
08. The wisdom of the prudent is the knowledge of one's way, but the foolishness of the reckless is delusion.
09. Fools laugh at sin, but among the righteous - favor.
15. The foolish believes in every word, but the prudent is attentive to his ways.
16. A wise man is afraid and moves away from evil, but a fool is irritable and presumptuous.
17. A quick-tempered person can do stupid things; but a man who deliberately does evil is hateful.
18. The ignorant get their share of stupidity, but the prudent will be crowned with knowledge.
23. From every work there is profit, but from idle talk only damage.
24. The crown of the wise is their wealth, and the stupidity of the ignorant is stupidity.
29. A patient person has a lot of intelligence, and an irritable one shows stupidity.
33. Wisdom rests in the heart of the wise, and makes itself known among fools.
35. The favor of the king is towards a wise servant, but his wrath is against him who dishonors him.
Chapter 15
01. Anger also destroys the intelligent. A gentle answer averts anger, but an insulting word stirs up wrath.
02. The tongue of the wise communicates good knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish spits out stupidity.
05. A fool neglects the instruction of his father; but whoever listens to reproofs is wise.
07. The lips of the wise spread knowledge, but the heart of fools does not.
14. The heart of the wise seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on foolishness.
20. A wise son pleases his father, but a foolish man neglects his mother.
21. Stupidity is joy for the foolish, but a wise man walks a straight path.
Chapter 16
22. Reason for those who have it is the source of life, but the learning of fools is stupidity.
Chapter 17
02. A wise slave rules over a dissolute son and divides the inheritance among the brothers.
07. An important speech is indecent for a fool, all the more so for a noble - deceitful lips.
10. A reprimand has a stronger effect on a reasonable person than on a stupid one hundred blows.
12. It is better for a man to meet a she-bear without children than a fool with his stupidity.
16. Why treasure in the hands of a fool? He has no intelligence to acquire wisdom.
18. A foolish man gives his hand and vouches for his neighbor.
21. Whoever gave birth to a fool is in grief, and the father of a fool will not rejoice.
24. Wisdom is in the face of a wise man, but the eyes of a fool are at the ends of the earth.
25. A foolish son is a vexation to his father and grief to his mother.
27. The prudent is temperate in his words, and the prudent is cold-blooded.
28. And a fool, when he is silent, may seem wise, and he who shuts his mouth is prudent.
Chapter 18
01. The wayward seeks whims, rebels against everything smart.
02. A fool does not like knowledge, but only to show his mind.
06. The mouth of a fool goes into quarrel, and his words cause beatings.
07. The tongue of a fool is his ruin, and his mouth is a snare for his soul.
14. He who gives an answer without listening is stupid, and shame on him.
23. He who casts out a good wife casts out happiness, but whoever has an adulteress is foolish and impious.
Chapter 19
01. Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man with a lying mouth, and a fool at that.
03. The foolishness of a man perverts his way, and his heart is indignant with the Lord.
10. Splendor is indecent for a fool, much less dominion over princes for a slave.
13. A foolish son is a ruin to his father, and a quarrelsome wife is a sewer.
27. Stop, my son, listening to suggestions about evading the sayings of the mind.
29. Judgments are prepared for those who blaspheme, and beatings are on the bodies of fools.
Chapter 20
01. Wine - mocking, strong drink - violent; and whoever is carried away by them is foolish.
03. Honor for a person - to lag behind a quarrel; and every fool is perky.
Chapter 21
16. A person who has gone astray from the path of reason will settle in the assembly of the dead.
20. The longed-for treasure and fat - in the house of the wise; but a foolish man squanders them.
30. There is no wisdom, and there is no understanding, and there is no counsel contrary to the Lord.
Chapter 22
15. Stupidity is attached to the heart of a young man, but a corrective rod will remove it from him.
Chapter 23
09. Do not speak into the ears of a fool, because he will despise your reasonable words.
Chapter 24
07. Wisdom is too high for a fool; at the gate he will not open his mouth.
09. The thought of stupidity is a sin, and a blasphemer is an abomination for people.
30. I passed by the field of a lazy man and past the vineyard of a foolish man:
31. And, behold, all this was overgrown with thorns, its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall collapsed.
Chapter 26
01. Like snow in summer and rain during harvest, so honor is indecent to a fool.
03. A whip for a horse, a bridle for a donkey, and a stick for stupid people.
04. Do not answer a fool according to his foolishness, lest you also become like him;
05. Do not answer a fool according to his foolishness, so that he does not become a wise man in his own eyes.
06. He cuts his legs, he suffers trouble who gives a verbal order to a fool.
07. The legs of a lame man rise unevenly, and a parable is in the mouths of fools.
08. Like one who puts a precious stone in a sling, he renders honor to a fool.
09. Like a thorn in the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouths of fools.
10. The strong do everything arbitrarily: he rewards the stupid, and he rewards every passer-by.
11. As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his foolishness.
12. Have you seen a man who is wise in his eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
18. As one pretending to be insane throws fire, arrows and death,
19. so - a man who insidiously harms his friend and then says: "I was only joking."
Chapter 27
03. Heavy stone, weight and sand; but the wrath of a fool is heavier than both of them.
12. The prudent sees trouble and hides; but the inexperienced go ahead and are punished.
20. It is an abomination before the Lord who boldly raises his eyes, and those who are intemperate with their tongues are foolish.
22. Tossing a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, his foolishness will not be separated from him.
Chapter 28
16. A foolish ruler does a lot of oppression, but one who hates self-interest will continue the days.
26. He who trusts in himself is foolish; but whoever walks in wisdom will be whole.
Chapter 29
09. An intelligent person, suing a stupid person, whether he is angry, whether he laughs, has no peace.
11. A fool pours out all his anger, but a wise one restrains it.
20. Have you seen a man reckless in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Chapter 30
02. truly, I am more ignorant than any of the people, and I have no human mind,
21. The earth trembles from three, it cannot bear four:
22. a servant when he becomes king; stupid when he eats bread to the full;
23. a disgraceful woman when she marries, and a maidservant when she takes the place of her mistress.
32. If you have done foolishness in your arrogance and thought evil, then put your hand on your mouth;
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Stupidity is mentioned in 27 chapters out of 31.
START.
... It all started with the fact that the Devil decided to leave humanity without a herring ...
As usual, he prepared this action for a long time and carefully ...
When the first-born named Sasha was born in the family of Professor Mylnikov, the Devil decided for himself that this was what he needed ...
The fact is that Professor Mylnikov was engaged in trawling all his life, and was in charge of the Department of Fishing at a large Fishing Institute ...
So, Sasha Mylnikov had a direct road to this institute ...
From childhood, Sasha knew where he would study after school, he also knew who he would work after graduation - he was supposed to become a professor at the same department as his father ...
Sasha was a man with an ability for exact sciences, he graduated from school with a silver medal, and without any difficulty entered the very institute where his dad worked ...
EDUCATION OF A GENIUS.
Professor Mylnikov did not spoil his son much ... Sasha studied at an English school with a mathematical bias, and for a bad mark he was (simply) deprived of a gift ...
Professor Mylnikov brought up in his son the ability to endure, and the ability to hope for the best in a critical situation ...
Mylnikov Jr. lost his virginity early, and by the tenth grade he was already drinking wine with might and main ...
Professor Mylnikov once and for all punished his son not to drink on the street or in the stairwell, but if he really wanted to, drink at home ... But in moderation ...
Sasha Mylnikov loved cheap port wine and invited his closest friends from the same English school...
Professor Mylnikov stuffed his son with special knowledge, and suggested that after sometime, Sasha would feel noticeably better, and that in order to have something in the future, one must try hard in the present ... Friends, this, of course, is good, but it will end youth, and life will force everyone to settle down as he can ...
Meanwhile, Sasha was engaged in elite trap shooting, and even received a sports category for it ...
AT UNIVERSITY.
... Mylnikov Jr. studied very well - he, in principle, did not need to study at all: his father knew by heart everything that was taught at the Institute, and long ago put all this knowledge into his son's head, but, firstly, at the Institute there was a military department, and every student was obliged to unlearn it; and, secondly, why was it necessary to speed up the process of growing up?.. In student life there is always a special aroma that cannot be expressed in words ... And Sasha Mylnikov breathed it in the same way as all the students around ...
Many institute beauties dreamed of him... Sasha would really be a gift of fate - a black-haired tall handsome man from a professorial family... With a obviously well-fed future... Married to whom one could live happily all his life...
Sasha loved many, but he chose women, mostly of the same difficult origin as himself ...
(One thing was bad about him - he did not like poetry under any sauce ...)
When others worked out the "third labor" semester in the fields or at a construction site in the summer, Sasha and his father went to sea on a scientific vessel ... And when it was time for swimming practice, when it was necessary to work on deck for six months, Sasha again went with his father on a Black Sea…
Envy gnawed at those who studied next to him ... Many smart, talented people studied on the course ... But not a single one of them, after graduating from the Institute, was left at the Institute ... (Many of them achieved something in life after - someone - then he became a police colonel, someone even worked later in the Ministry ... Someone was the director of the plant, but not one was as successful at first as Mylnikov Jr.! .. "Lucky!" - they talked about him! ..)
And when he defended the Diploma, the defense was brilliant, and the Diploma after became the basis for a Ph.D. thesis ...
MARRIAGE.
Maybe it was strange for someone from the outside, but Sasha Mylnikov married for love ... And then it happened that his wife was also from a professorial family - her father was a psychiatrist, and her mother was the best gynecologist in the City ...
Mylnikov and his young wife spent their honeymoon in Gagra, and soon Sasha and his wife had a son...
Mylnikov worked at the Department, gave lectures, a young candidate of sciences... He did not live in poverty... But he always preferred cheap port wine to everything else from alcoholic products, and was still engaged in trap shooting... (Mylnikov Sr. retired and wrote textbooks on fishing at home... Son did not interfere ...)
CRAP.
The devil was next to Mylnikov all this time ...
To become a Professor, Sasha Mylnikov had to do something very important in his science of fishing, something significant ...
The devil put into his smart head the Idea that he had previously protected from everyone ... This concerned the improvement of trawling: Sasha created a sensor that greatly simplified the process of trawling, and was attached to the trawl ...
(... The devil then rejoiced! .. And Mylnikov exclaimed: “Now I will feed all the hungry ... There are a lot of fish in the Ocean! ..”
Mylnikov was in euphoria for several days after that ... He felt like he was in seventh heaven ...)
Mylnikov patented his invention... And that's where it all started...
The trawl business in the world has gone uphill... Catching fish has become much easier than before... People began to eat more... That and look, prosperity would come in the world... Inexpensive fish lay on the shelves... Everyone ate from the belly...
But it so happened that the fish in the Ocean became much smaller, and the whole herring in the Atlantic was caught ...
The devil laughed heartily ... Mylnikov Jr. also became a professor ...
"What have I done?" - he thought now, and in the end he ended up in a madhouse ...
- How do we like you? .. - he addressed that fish, abstractly; the fish that had already been caught... And he, too, laughed like the devil... from the bottom of his heart...
CONCLUSION.
Professor Mylnikov lived, almost, his life... Well, he was mistaken, with whom it doesn't happen... They will heal... He will come out of the psychiatric hospital into the light of day... Yes, but what will happen to his Soul?..
"MASK"
… Passers-by peer at my face for a long time, as if I’m (already) wearing a mask of death… Moreover, some of them read my thoughts… I think more and more about the fact that this World was created only for me alone… And that around me is only The scenery, which, along with God, was once planned by myself ...
"SORRY"
A year ago, the Artist's Model died ... (The Artist was no longer (far) young, just like his Model, by the way ...) Only now he realized that he loved her - very much, to the point of pain in his heart ... Every day he goes to her grave fills life with it...
The bus to the cemetery goes only early in the morning... The Artist is always afraid of being late for it... All the neighbors know that the Artist loves the dead, that every single day he goes to her, and, probably, talks to her for a long time, standing on the grave... They feel sorry for him... And not know how to help...
"HASIDIM"
... What a business, what a fun business in our Ashkelon! .. A minibus rides through the streets, all joyfully painted ... It has huge speakers on the roof, from which Hasidic music flows throughout the street, and a venerable orthodox is driving it ... “Everything not so bad, guys! ..” - as if the orthodox wants to, (want it), say with his music ... “It's not so bad at all! ..” - he reports (through the speakers) ...