Remember the first lines of "Moydodyr" KorneyChukovsky, how from the mother's bedroom ran a curved leg and a lame washbasin? As a child, we treated him quite seriously and did not ask unnecessary questions to ourselves or to adults. Yes, everything around us is alive: the wash basin, the cups, and the teapot ... But with age, this bright, clean, no-obscure world begins to gradually fade, fade, becoming a trivial fiction. However, not all. There are rare exceptions. One of them is the writer Mikhail Osorgin. "Pence" - a story about the amazing world of "revived" things in the life of an adult.
main characters
The story of Mikhail Osorgin "Pensna" is written fromname of the author. But here, in the first line, he introduces the reader to the true protagonists - things. Watches, books, a glass, a thermometer, coats ... The list can be continued indefinitely, but it's not worth it - it is well known to us. But do we know each other well? Things, definitely, yes. And we? Do we know that they live their own lives? The author does not even doubt this and is sure that the reader is with him at the same time. After all, you can not not hear the endless hours of walking. It is impossible not to see how the open scissors yell. And only a stupid person will deny that the teapot is the most comely comedian, and the hanging coat always has some kind of "miserable little soul and easy impotence".
Passion for travel
We continue the summary of "Pensna".Extreme interest is also caused by certain movements of things. Usually we explain them by our absent-mindedness, forgetfulness or even ordinary theft. But no, this can not be. In the life of things, there is a certain passion for travel. Some are away for a minute, others for an hour or two, and still others for a day, a week, a month. There are also exceptional cases when they disappear forever, such as the historical work of Titus Libya or the blue diamond. But these are still historical cases. However, on the example of small items - a box of matches, a pencil, buttons - it is easier to catch the outer signs of this independence. We read further the humorous story, which M.Osorgin created, - "Pensna". The main characters will surprise us more than once.
Mysterious disappearance
Такой же поразительный случай произошел у автора and with a pince-nez. Once he was sitting in an armchair, reading peacefully, not suspecting anything. I reached the new chapter and decided to wipe the glasses, took out my handkerchief, and looked - the pince-nez was gone. The inspection of the place of disappearance was the most thorough. Pockets, clothes, all grooves in the armchair, sheets in the book, the floor were checked. Moreover, the search was conducted in the next room, and even in the bathroom. A week passed, but the author continued his search. Some laughed at him, others tried sincerely to help. The servants swept away all possible and impossible dust particles. She reached the black staircase - but, alas, the fugitive was never found.
Return of the "prodigal"
Summary of the "Pence" - the story of M.Osorgina - this does not end there. After some time, when a new pince-nez was already sitting on the nose, the author sat in the same chair, but with another book. As usual, he took a simple pencil to erase the most intelligent places, and suddenly the pencil falls. Still under the unpleasant impression of a recent escape, he rushed after the new "runaway". But the fear turned out to be false. The pencil lay quietly on the floor, and next to him, tightly pressed against the wall, two glasses flashed.
You can certainly argue that this is justabsurd omission, oversight, distraction. But the miserable look of the "fugitive", his guilty gleaming with dull, dusty glass, suggested the opposite. Pensney went on an independent journey. It walked and had fun, and had fun for a long time, until it was tired and weak. Here comes a brief summary of the Pensna.
By the way, pince-nez ended its lifetragically - it fell, and its glass scattered into small pieces. Maybe this is an accident, and maybe "suicide." After all, the author put him in public disgrace when he forced him to stand at the wall all day, and showed the “runaway” to all his acquaintances, friends and servants ...
I would like to remind you that the summaryPensney, a wonderful story by Mikhail Osorgin, cannot convey the peculiar humor of the writer, his unique, subtle figurative comparisons. Therefore, reading the original is highly recommended.
