ll be ready now. - What is it? - I'm ready. Five... Four... Three... Two... Go! Have you seen it? Absolutely! Absolutely... You've got neutrons? Don't worry, Doctor, the neutrons are there, and we're here. Has anybody been there? No one. Quiet. Quiet. Once again. Five... Four... Three... Two... Go! Lyolya, congratulations! Vassily, I'm bowing down! If it proves to be a thermonuclear reaction, if it's thermonuclear... It's the dawn of the new century! The thermonuclear one is in our hands! You don't understand what it means! Why don't I understand? To the hero! What a celebration! Just a sec, I'll go wash my hands. - Why didn't you tell? - Close the door. I've calculated it. Ten in the twelfth. You got about 200 roentgens. It's no joke. Why didn't you tell? - Mitya! - Coming. You must tell. Wait, Ilya. Listen, my dear. In this situation I don't give a damn about what you think of the world. I need your head. You're not leaving. You'll stay here. All right, but why didn't you tell? It's none of your business. You should tell. It can wait. We must tell you that modern science, and particularly physics, means a persistent, painstaking work. The first seeming success is followed by months, sometimes years, of checking, repeated tests, disappointments, achievements and failures. DAY SIX which begins in the evening I'm ready. Attention! Four... Three... Two... Go! What a lousy game! Simply disaster. Your Central Army Club. What do you do on Sunday? I've got something brewing. Oh, you ladies' man. - Have you fallen asleep or what? - I was ready long ago. Attention! Four... - He's lying. - Three... Two... Go! You could've switched off the radio, just for appearances' sake. It's the same thing. Is he gone? I'm ready. Attention! Four... Three... Two... Go! Interesting. We increase the current in a discharge. We increase the magnetic field. The stream of neutrons should grow accordingly. But it doesn't. It doesn't... Mitya. I think I've seen this photo already. And not once. That idiot, Fyodorov, has muddled it up again. What is he thinking about? The guy's in love, so to speak. Tomorrow I'll kick him the hell out of the laboratory! Don't you have any pity for the guy? I'm fed up with your kindness. Incidentally, communism should be built by kind people. Business-like people. Kind and tolerant. The kind ones will get everything stolen from under their noses. Only kind people, and only tolerant. I can imagine what kind of communism you'll build. All right, let's go. You've been educated on the positive examples of modern literature. And you, what are you? A good or a bad guy? I'm a good guy. And this is a great delusion of yours. First of all, you're ideologically unstable. In old times, any of your utterances... In old times I kept mum. Look, it's funny: "Discover a new particle in the current quarter!" Oh, come on. No! Don't you see how delightful it is? The discovery of a new particle is a momentous event. Does it really matter if it happens in the current quarter or the next? Nothing interesting. It was just a fool who wrote it. Mitya, a fool is always interesting. A fool is a social phenomenon, so to speak. I just adore observing fools. If we didn't have them, the picture of the world wouldn't be complete. To begin with, a fool is the precise reflection of the time he lives in. A clever man may find himself ahead of his time or on its sidelines. But it will never happen to a fool. And mind you, Mitya, the world of fools is incredibly diverse. A foreign fool is nothing like our native fool. A fool in the science has nothing to do with an administrative fool. Oh, what splendid fools we can still come across! Persevering and lasting fools. A clever man may err, a fool will never do, and that's amazing! No social formation, even the most perfect one, can guarantee itself against ------------------------------ Читайте также: - текст Плутовство на английском - текст Новый Вавилон на английском - текст Основной инстинкт 2 на английском - текст Звезда на английском - текст Каратель на английском |