starting with the call to waken the crew. Everybody up! Up! Everybody up! Make your beds. Get ready to do your exercises. For the exercises you should put on your work uniforms. Everybody up! Get up! The Commander often thought that his life, bound to the lives of the conscripts, had a feeling of impending doom. Yet at the same time, it had a certain serenity. The Commander saw that he could spend his whole life like this. But in order to spend one's whole life like this, one would need to love life, and especially, to love the conscripts. ''But l am the shore, and they are the water'', he thought. ''They sail into my life for a short while. The tide of destiny has brought them here, the whirlpool... They will be glad to leave me, and follow the course of their own lives. l will be the only one in their lives, but there will be a lot of them in my life. But how can one love them? How should one love a disciple without knowing love's measure? How can l love seamen who are no more than apprentices? l can't love them just because they are human beings. l was taught that human males have to work hard and to love working. But l know very well that few of them like working.'' He is lost in his thoughts. But if you ask him what he is thinking about, he'll say, ''Nothing''. And he'll be right. He speeds up time. He wants to be back home. He is a slave, and doesn't even realise the extent of his slavery. Fishchenko Tell me, is he a fool or what? When l was salting the fish, l asked you. l asked, was that all? You said to leave... l asked you if it was all, you answered, yes it was. Nothing left? No. Better to salt than to... We'll do it today... You'll be the death of me. We were together. l asked you to bring all the herring. l asked if that was all. You said yes. Oh, mom, help me! lt's your test? Wait... So anyway he said 10 o'clock. He asked me if l was ready to be tested. The first aid. The first aid? Yes, today. He said that part wasn't needed. l just asked him, and he told me it was. So l can go? Let me go then. - The book? - Here, all right? No, the whole thing. All at once? Yes. One can't learn it all! Comrade midshipman, may l take the test? - Which one? - The first aid test. So? There are two types of haemorrhage, arterial and venous. When arterial, the blood gushes, it's scarlet in colour. When venous, bleeding is slow. The colour is dark red. When the haemorrhage is arterial, the tourniquet should be bound below the wound, close to the wound. lf it still bleeds ... You have to lift his head. Should we bind his neck? - No. - Are you sure? - Yes. - Perhaps we should? No. l say again: you're on watch, you go downstairs and... there he lies, his leg twisted. What do you do? Or again: you come to Central Control, you look behind the electric panel, and there is Private Lazarev, hanging from a lever. What do you do? l make an improvised tool to get him down. What ? Well you... What improvised tool? - A stick. - Have you been there? Yes. What stick... are you talking about? l can get him down using my clothes. You've come from the shower, your clothes are wet. ln the box, there are... There's nothing at all. l've just thrown everything out. l switch off the panel. You see, you're wasting time in searching and thinking... ''Oh, if l had a knife, or a stick, or something...'' First things first. Cut the electricity. lf l can't find anything... lf you can't switch it off, then you look for a tool. - l switch off. - Done. He still hangs. l take him down and put him on a hard surface. Where? - On a hard surface. - Where do you find one? - On a ''fish''. - There aren't any. Have you even been to the Central Control Room? Where have you seen it? Just by the door. All right then. You put him on it. - l check if he's breathing. - He isn't. l do ------------------------------ Читайте также: - текст Шерлок Холмс и Доктор Ватсон: Красным по белому на английском - текст Я люблю тебя на английском - текст Отступники на английском - текст Туманность Андромеды на английском - текст Чеховские мотивы на английском |