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			21. THE MOUTH ON THE CHURCH WALL 

     For the priest the lesson has not passed for nothing. During that time it was still young and rather 
It is impressionable. It has strong acquired two things. The first: the naked truth is necessary only 
To suicides to make with it last delightful sexual intercourse — and 
To die. The second: the inhabitant likes all beyond the ordinary, but not 
Too far — just right to have time to return, when the melancholy will release. 
And more the priest has started to guess, that changes usually occur to the worst, and 
True news happen only bad. Clowns and touched always in the big 
Honour and in a big price, yet do not forget the place... 
     It is necessary — then it seemed to the priest, that he never will repeat the stranger 
Errors. Error proofs it were available, that is on the person at the tramp. But here 
Inside something has burst, has torn, smashed, not having sustained 
Pressure; the safety lock has burnt down; the terminator has broken; a guardian angel 
Has left in a maternity leave (one more occasion to shout: "Change!") — and 
The priest has incurred under a bias. The further, the it was more difficult to stop. It 
Has got a false idea, that is not still told to it. 
     For the first time for many months he has raised the voice. He almost shouted about the black 
Not washed sins, immemorial human paskudstve and a near death. It 
The sermon was weaved with firing sounds. It vspomjanul the Trunk, Rjahlisa, 
Midges and whores, umershchvlennyh monstrously. Lust, greed, preljubodejanie, 
Arrogance... And so on. The full list. Then the list of tortures and punishments on 
Iezekiilju. The priest has added Something from itself. It has turned out not bad. It and 
Did not know, that in him there is IT: refined, furious and vindictive imagination, 
Subjecting to all listed penalties a live flesh... 
     The old women, furtively clicking sunflower seeds, have stood with a peel on lips. 
On physiognomies of "respectable" townspeople disgust grimaces, as if have fallen asleep 
The priest was turned inside out and has given to them to consider the decaying 
Interiors. What obscenity! What scandalous tactlessness — to remind 
To people about their weaknesses, pranks, defects! Similar, the righteous person nevertheless has gone mad 
From long abstention... 
     Queen and a witch stood in a shade behind a column, and their persons it was not visible. 
When the priest has finished, the landowner was put forward in pass, has placed feet, 
Has affirmed, as a bull among sheep, and has clapped the hands. The priest at once 
Felt the pity clown in foolish buffoonery and besides acted 
At the wrong time. 
     The crowd of parishioners with simplification has tumbled down from church — silently to sin 
Further, to smoke the sky, to spit in another's wells, to spoil each other a head, 
To spoil beds and the earth. Thus all accurately squeezed by the Queen, 
That, God forbid, it not to touch. That did not pay to them attention. 
     Under the booming arches there were three. The priest felt itself beaten 
Dog. The will followed from it, as dung at a diarrhoeia. The queen drilled it 
Ironic sight, forcing to trudge on pass to itself towards. 
     — Show! — the landowner the tone which is not supposing objections has demanded. That 
Not less the priest has thrown an enquiring look aside poliny. That has nodded: 
     — Show. 
     It has got the tattooed piece of the skin which have been cut off from a human head. 
The most unpleasant consisted that since the priest has picked up 
It, on him were short black hairs. Also CONTINUED to GROW. 
     At light of icon lamps and doleful candles the Queen examined the image 
Scarab. All it while seemed to it full nonsense. Should come 
The inevitable moment when the witch will be amazed at last with marasmus! It seems, such 
The moment has come. In its opinion, the old woman has lifted an alarm because of a trifle, 
Which did not cost the eaten away egg. And still, nevertheless... He trusted its scent. 
And first of all — own. 
     — I will take it, — the Queen has muttered. 
     He did not ask, and informed. Could and not put. 
     It seemed to the priest, that it has let go and has lost something important, 
Probably, unique proof though it also there was a relic hostile, 
Ugly cult. "My God, where the truth? And whether I wish to know the truth? Not 
Whether too I am cowardly for this purpose? "— pytal it of, but growing dull mind 
Rushed about in a lie labyrinth. 
     The priest has seen a pack of old paper money, which as if on 
To magic has appeared in a hand of the landowner. 
     — Repair a roof! Flows, — that has said ambiguously, while a pack as 
By itself would creep in a narrow crack between disobedient popovskih hands... 
     And here then the tree for the first time has moaned. Or not a tree. Anyway, 
The sound was heart-breaking and a rake scratched a back. 
     The priest in horror has looked back. Despite twilight, he has seen at once, 
As the face on one of icons — a face Sacred Laziness, the Founder has darkened 
The states (!). Sanctity and violence in a uniform image. Over the similar 
Paradoxes the priest did not reflect at all. The state was represented 
To it almost lost paradise, a stronghold of justice, safety and 
The democracies, the happy Utopia which has completely sunk into the past... 
     On the image of the sacred gilding bubbled, scab stains have disfigured 
Clear forehead, and board... The board groaned, as if the case of an ancient sailing vessel, 
Got a severe ocean storm, but there was no storm, was not any 
Sailing vessel, and on hundreds kilometres around there was no even a sea. 
     The priest has again turned a head. The queen scornfully smiled. 
Person Poliny expressed purely medical interest to an event. To the priest 
It seemed, that he has heard its whisper ("you the paranoiac, the father! Come 
Somehow behind a grass... "), and precisely it not seemed, that the Queen has approached 
The person to his face, has doused hot breath, a smell of fried meat and 
Has whispered: 
     — Do not speak to the Chief. Very much you I ask. 

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     They have left. Bitjugi have dragged away "lendrover" away from a church court yard. After 
It the priest has rushed to an icon. 
     The tree here and there has charred, but remains cold. The face sacred was 
It is at all indiscernible... The Priest has removed an icon and there and then instinctively by it was closed. 
     In a wall the slightly opened mouth was found out. The black failure was so is deep, that 
And a bottom not to see. The grey lips the stone was which substance, have begun 
To move, publishing that intolerable sound... 
     The priest has hasty crossed, has seized a candle standing nearby and 
Has thrown it directly in the devil's mouth which has swung open even more widely... Later the priest 
And itself could not explain, what for it has made it, — wished whether to make out, 
It is how much deep stone a drink, whether... To feed a monster. In everyone 
Case, the candle has sunk into darkness, as if the meteor which flashed and has gone out in 
The night sky. Lips were moved apart in a certain similarity of an ominous smile. From them 
The stone crumb fell down... 
     The poor priest nevertheless has thought up a tolerable explanation happened — it 
Simply went mad. Conditions in the city of Ine to it had... As 
Strange, it has a little calmed him. He has set up an icon into place — "from a sin 
Far away ". It was necessary to find out, how much cosy or killing 
There are madness worlds. 

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     The priest has locked a door and has trudged home, trying to forget about the groaning 
Drink and stone lips. To it has bothered to substitute cheeks and to receive not only 
Slaps in the face, but also kicks under back. He did not guess yet, that there was about what 
He subconsciously dreamt for a long time. Harm rose against harm. It was angrily possible 
To USE against harm... 
     By then shooting has abated. Over roofs of houses the pale smoke floated 
Fire. 
     The priest was dragged along the street. 
     Whores giggled to it following. 

			22. "HANG UP, THE SONNY!" 

     The chief has recollected, where he saw THAT book, — during a video session 
In the concrete bunker of the private residence. Has recollected absolutely unexpectedly, that 
Proved incrutability of job of the amorphous arithmometer which was located inside 
cherepushki. The film has been killed almost to impossibility (even the plot was traced 
Hardly) — a criminal drama about troubles of the smugglers who have hidden 
Jewelry in the plaster imposed on the broken hand of any moron. 
Zabluda sincerely sympathised with smugglers, and from the blonde woman, 
Which those have sent to lull this moron, invariably 
Came to silent delight. Every time when from it the brassiere flied, assistants 
The chief started to neigh and scorch in a ceiling. But — it is cautious, that not 
To hurt the video two. The chief only screwed up the face — it toshnilo from 
Vulgarities of subordinates. 
     Today he enjoyed cinema in society ZHory, ZHirnjagi and judges Fraught. 
In the next premise its slaves by turns twisted pedals of the old 
Bicycle "Ukraine" without wheels and a wheel, rotating a shaft of the decrepit generator, 
Collected by mechanic Rodion Iron. Both the generator, and the mechanic breathed for a long time 
On an incense. Therefore sessions at the Chief were rare, and an input for strangers 
Cost fabulously expensively. 
     The unique serviceable video two in Ine belonged Zablude and 
Represented one of its main treasures. More correctly, to the Chief 
It was pleasant to think, that the video two — unique. However the Queen too 
For certain did not miss in the estate in the long winter evenings... 
     Grishka knew a film by heart. Its videoshop was extremely ogranichenna: 
Comedy "Terminator", any absolutely antediluvian "istern" "White 
The sun of desert ", a costume-historical melodrama"Solaris", a thriller from 
Lives of conspirators "the Person with a gun", two insurgents with not saved 
The names, three "porno" which has been removed, judging by scenes in per capita, during an epoch 
The water drain and the centralised water supply, and a collection pearl — 
Cartoon film about dzenskom the master a Winnie-the-Pooh. 
     The boredom was the most malicious enemy Zabludy. For the new cartridge it willingly would give 
The left hand. However, it is always better to take for nothing. In search of its video treasures 
People have already turned for a long time In upside down. There came the Jack turn, but the player 
Yet did not suspect about it. 
     ... And here, during that moment when on the screen should begin 
Binge in a tavern the "Weeping willow", any new chains have become isolated in the grey 
Substance of the Chief. He has recollected that occurred years twenty five 
Ago. And there was a following: it, the hypersexual youth, daddy 
Has led to a witch to be treated for a gonorrhea. 

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     In the house heavy, stagnant air was active. Smells not that that 
Unpleasant, and strange and to clearing of thoughts not promoting. Starushentsija 
With owl's eyes, similar, was afraid Grishku less, than it — consequences 
The vjunosheskoj illegibility. Competitors at it were not. Last 
The diplomaed doctor spilsja still to Grishkinogo births. The witch felt 
Itself irreplaceable, that is why — being in safety. She even has made witticisms, 
When it, being burnt with shame, has pulled out for a review of the friend amazed 
Cold (though it was possible to be proud of such big and sympathetic friend). 
Joke about that "it is better than the guy to castrate at once", Grishke very much 
It was not pleasant, and its daddy has burst out laughing, the truth, is a little nervously. Did not like 
Daddy of the sonny — and knowingly... Then the witch has asked the Zabludu-senior 
To leave, and they remained three together: polina, future Chief Ina and it 
Then problem. 
     The humiliating procedures accompanied by the poisonous have followed 
vedminymi comments. A pain, simplification, again a pain... Grigory especially 
Has taken a dislike oddish is dirty-green to bank with a neck on one side — like 
I would be empty, but... Not empty of what its friend was "personally convinced when 
Has visited inside. Soon the guy was ready on everything, if only all 
Has fast ended, however it was tormented till late night, not leaving from 
Stuffy premise even on need. 
     Grishka felt last fool, standing with the lowered trousers 
In a magnificent office Active. It did not prevent to look attentively to it on 
To the parties. Over it not so much curiosity, how much early cleared up supervised 
Self-preservation instinct. 
     While the friend suffered from burning and severe massage in not clear 
Banks, Grishka pjalilsja on a table, chests, cases and the regiments hammered any 
Rubbish — from ampoules with morphine to the hare ears. Two subjects from the were 
On a table have interested him most strongly — phone and the book in leather 
Cover with metal corners. 
     Before Grigory saw phones only at cinema, during sessions, 
Passing in the bunker at daddy. This device was black, without a disk, but with 
The inscription the illegible old-womanish was available buttons, against each of which 
Handwriting. But words "laboratory", "president" and "fast" Grishka nevertheless 
Has disassembled... 
     When the witch has left somewhere, it was not kept and has lifted the receiver. Then 
Has pressed the button of a call of "laboratory". Hoarse sexless whisper was distributed almost 
At once. On that end of a wire with the sonny of the Chief have managed not too 
Politely. There and have told: 
     — Hang up, the sonny, your mother... 
     He has obeyed. Has thrown a tube. It should remain the big work on 
Place instead of to rush from an office — and lines with it, with health of the friend! 
But it has not run away. Instead the Zabluda-junior, slightly having calmed down, has opened 
The book. Has looked through heavy, as if the pages impregnated with wax. On some 
There was a stamp of laboratory library. The text on Old Russian, moreover 
Literary, Grigory prosekal with the big work. Neither time, nor desire 
To read at it in general was not. 
     Anatomic pictures have liked it at once, and that were 
Are devoted a female, even have pleasantly excited. However, it 
The enthusiasm has quickly died away. Has gone severe raschlenenka and nekrofilskie further 
Entertainments — the same flesh, but changed in the most terrible image. Grishke even 
It seemed, that in an office has begun to smell decaying meat. To tell the truth, 
He was frightened of the grandmother who ostensibly treated it... Nevertheless it 
Continued to look through the pages, hypnotised by gloomy beauty and 
Gloomy disgrace of a human wrong side. As if knew or had a presentiment, 
That sometime it is useful to it... 
     In the book there was more many that not clear and interesting: the eyes which have been taken out 
From eye-sockets and connected to a brain long bunches of optical paths; the tiny 
People in size with a palm — judging by the scale ruler painted nearby; 
Babies, accrete with kremnievo-germanievymi "consciousness dilators"; 
Access codes to virtual beings; dead persons with rantsevymi power stations 
Between shovels and synthesizers of speech instead of lungs and vocal chords; 
samoorganizujushchiesja the colonies of putrefactive microorganisms localised in 
Fresh dead men; illustrations of various ways of implantation of germs (in 
That number inhuman) in genital bodies of the preserved female 
Corpses... And, of course, there Grishka for the first time has seen a scarab — in 
The section entirely devoted by condemned and forbidden church to practice 
"rivajvla", in the head "Historical inquiry"... 
     Now so the hairy stain was clearly presented to it bluish and as though 
On a paper, that has distorted it. Errors could not be. 
     Zabluda did not forget and did not excuse even ephemeral insults. It could for a long time 
To be quit with a witch, but all postponed — and suddenly that is required? That 
To do, if, for example, its best friend again "will catch a cold"? Such 
The probability existed and did not come nearer at all to zero, considering the constant 
Aspiration Grishki to novelty. High-grade replacement to the old woman something not 
It was expected. There was one more reason — on hearings, whether polina remained hardly 
Not unique old resident Ina who knew a track through bogs to Black 
Laboratories... 
     Now to the Chief the case on a witch was presented to recoup, and it was 
Not from those who misses rare cases. 

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     The film came to an end. ZHirnjaga licked lips in an anticipation "porno", 
Which usually looked "at a dessert". At least he has wholly paid 
For pleasure. The chairman of town council has come to the senses for a long time after 
Midges visit. All has appeared not too terribly. It has got off a strong fright 
And underwear washing under the urgent tariff. But since then any visitors 
Him any more did not disturb. 
     And at the Chief it was obviously cheered up. There came early morning. 
It is a high time to have a good time in "Olhoznike". To begin with Grishka has sent there 
ZHoru with a command of beginners — let will smell to gunpowder. It was convinced 
The supporter of the theory of natural selection. The theory has appeared correct for all 
Animals without an exception. Who-who, and the Chief could judge it, having climbed up 
On top of an evolutionary ladder... 
     At Zabludy there was a presentiment something unusual. Quite could 
To occur and something pleasant. And suddenly at this sharper who has shot down 
Pin, there will be a cartridge with a film? 

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