Аннотация: The Fairy Tale about the Winston Churchill's library
The Fairy Tale about the Winston Churchill's library
Winston Churchill sat in library of the ancient English castle. The portrait of the founder of library hung on one of walls.
Churchill has got up and has taken several steps on library.
Churchill with curiosity has at random opened one of the biographies: "We see the office filled with books of the Gibbon, Macaulay, Platon, Saint-Simon. "Schopenhauer's philosophy separated Kant from Hegel, and the Gibbon, Macaulay, Darwin and the Bible battled against them for the place on shelves... Savrola armed with sad, cynical, evolutionary philosophy tried to look at the world from a distance...""
On one of book shelves where there was an empty seat earlier, books by Mahatma Gandhi have appeared.
"Gandhi ..."
The look slid along the shelves...
"Confucius ..." "Leo Tolstoy ..."
Churchill has involuntarily put a hand on one of shelves. He has turned away his head towards an open window.
From an open window sounds were heard. Mail arrived.
Before moving away, Churchill has looked where his hand has laid down.
"History of Britain", "Magna Carta" ...
The first pages of Newspapers were filled with news: "Independence of the British India!"
"It is declared creation of People's Republic of China!".
"I'm the crumbled man..."
"He deceives himself, coming to the conclusion that adheres to broad views while his brain fixes rather private aspects of a question".
Winston Churchill has raised his eyes. The portrait of the founder of library.
In his memory came the phrases of the search sheet, circulated at the end of 1899, during the escape of the young Winston Churchill from the Boer captivity (in the interpretation of one of the publications): "...He walks with his head held high. Pale skin, reddish hair... dressed in a brown jacket...'
("Correspondent "The Manchester guardian" described a colleague, of which managed to learn over the period of a long voyage to the South the African continent: "Harmonious, slightly reddish hair, pale, vigorous, often wanders along the ship deck with nose, rised up ... "").
Winston Churchill's mood has improved.
"After successful escape from captivity I have made a speech at the improvised meeting", - Winston Churchill has remembered. - "... Or to find people of equal character and mind, or to bring together the huge mass of troops..."
"Philosophers - argue and reflect. Practices, practical doers - operate...'
"If to take since Julius Caesar, - 2 thousand years ... Since 1215 - after the adoption of the Magna Carta - 800 years ..."
"The experience of many centuries is a little different from the philosophical and moral constructions." "Without difficulties, of course, doesn't happen".
"His love to own country, his sense of justice ... was supported with a huge work, a tireless thought and anticipation. His road could be complicated by contradictions, disappointments and excesses, but his call of duty never weakened ...".
The assistant has come: "The distant relatives arrived from abroad. Would wish to talk to you, to see the castle, to get acquainted with art gallery".
"Invite them".
Winston Churchill put the newspapers away. The newspaper which was placed over others showed a note: "Books, published in Russian: "Churchill" by A. I Utkin; "Winston Churchill. 100 people who have changed the world" - De Agostini S.p.A. ...".
The arrived guests were entering into the library.
August 5, 2018 08:49
Translation from Russian into English: August 5, 2018 10:04.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Сказка о библиотеке Уинстона Черчилля'.