Dan' salamandre

"...Dovol'no skoro stali proishodit' neprivychnye dlya menya veschi. Naprimer, vozvraschayas' s raboty, ya videla v kommunal'nom koridore, pod moey veshalkoy, ee ryzhie bashmachki. V dekabre, sostarennye slyakot'yu vperemeshku s yadovitoy sol'yu trotuarov, oni priobreli sovsem zhalkiy vid. Ya ih uzhasno lyubila. Obychno ya pripolzala s raboty, chuya vsem suschestvom, chto seychas ruhnu. No videla ee ryzhie bashmachki. Menya eto vsyakiy raz porazhalo. I ya raspahivala dver' s oschuscheniem cheloveka, kotoryy seychas, ne teryaya ni sekundy, pritom igrayuchi, budet dvigat'-peredvigat' gory - samye titanicheskie, kakie udastsya syskat' na nashey skudnoy planete".