they want it.
And that one doesn't give [it to them].
This hedgehog is always laborious, reasonable, smart,
he's collecting apples and mushrooms on his needles.
They have weird forests - apples and mushrooms in the same place.
He is carrying them. But hare -
he goes to bear, then he goes to hedgehog who will give some
nice advice. They go chatting and in the end
this bear understands nobody will talk to him if he's tightfisted
and he shares. In the end of such cartoon all those animals sing song about friendship.
Total nonsense!
You don't take offence, no.
You watched this nonsense till the end.
You don't know that man who made this, it's not that he
doesn't love, he just doesn't care.
You didn't take offence. You went out running again.
If none of your buddies are in the yard
you can play stupid 'mothers and daughters' with girls
or to find some dead sparrow and to bury it.
If some winter evening...there was a word for it...driven in.
Everybody was driven in.
You were left alone. Everybody was driven in but [grownups] forgot about you.
You walk like this...and it's all the same to you.
You don't know how to be bored, how to be sad, how to feel alone yet.
You don't feel wonderful, but you don't feel bad either.
You simply walk around. You for certain find yourself some activity.
You look - windows are shining. There Vityka is driven in, there - Sanyka.
Nothing. Evening sets in, it becomes cold. Lanterns.
You approach street door or iron swing...
You apporached street door. There's doorknob here,
that's because you're little doorknob is here.
There's lanterns, steam from mouth, such cold and you're thinking:
someone told me I had to lick it for sure.
Main thing - you didn't take offence. Because you don't know
yet how to take offence.
You don't know how to take offence because as soon as you learn
how to take offence...in the very same second,
not the next one!  this very same second
you will learn how to offend!
But  you don't know it yet.
Some sunday you're lying in your bed under the sheets.
As this is sunday you're not needed anywhere,
everybody's forgotten about you.
Just granny remembered. But you lie down and think:
Why to lie here?...but what will I do? Ah, I'll just lie down.
Granny remembered about you because she's already baked pancakes.
And these pancakes are standing in such pile in the kitchen.
She put jam on the table and says:
we should wake him up.
And granny goes to wake you up. She lifts up bedspread,
you're lying there and you have such back...and fluffs on your spine.
She fondles you down your back. Granny has coarse hands because
she's been working all her life.
And you do like this...
Then some thirty years went by.
Back is big and there's no fluff on it.
You have already made such a mess in your life...
such a mess, such a trouble...god!
You lie down and can't fall asleep. You think:
how terrible it is. You remember some bullshit
because of which you start feeling ashamed,
some bullshit which has not necesserily happened to you,
but to this man or even before that,
and there's noone who could remind you of it,
perhaps, some of them are not alive anymore, you don't remember it yourself,
but then suddenly you remembered it while brushing teeth or shaving yourself.
And then you want so much to...
You're trying to fall asleep.
You have bad things piled up in your work...
Boss is offending you and someone has treated
you unjustly or you have lent money to someone,
you call him after half a year to get the money back.
You ask: will you give the money back? But he says: forget it!
You think: how - forget it? wait a minute.
You're lying down and all this makes a mess in your head.
And you can't fall asleep and imagine how you will tell
him everything tomorrow. When you think about this during night
words put themselves in right places, he says something to you and you
know perfectly well what to answer him.
That is, you said