Письмо для Алисы
Добавлено: 25.03.2015, 18:38
По просьбе моей американской подруги Эйприл Хелмс я публикую это небольшое послание.
Это очередная «рукопись, найденная при странных обстоятельствах» — на этот раз внутри карманного сборника рассказов Айзека Азимова. Она написана на обратной стороне этикетки от какого-то вида сладостей (какого именно, по контексту понять не удалось), очень мелким почерком, похожим на чертёжный шрифт. При увеличении оказалось, что это письмо, адресованное… Алисе Селезнёвой. Вот как оно выглядит:
Dear Alice Seleznyova,
Golly! I can hardly believe I am writing to you, someone I only have seen on tv. I mean, until recently, I thought you were fictional.
But I should introduce myself. I'm Gadget, and I'm a Rescue Ranger. I work with a team of four others — Chip, Dale, Monty and Zipper — and we work to solve crime in the city.
One night, when Dale was watching one of his Late Late shows because he loves watching television, he saw a movie about your adventures. First time it was a bit hard to understand but with my translation we all get into it and stayed until its end during four nights. Say, are these stories real, or are they completely made up. And few weeks then, the animation about your adventures wound up being a show we all liked and started watching. Chip and Dale liked it for the adventure, Monty liked the battles, Zipper liked it for all of the different aliens and I liked it for all the inventions.
When I started finding books on you and your friend Pashka's adventures, I suddenly began to wonder if you really existed and weren't fictional after all. The more I read, the more I wondered, especially when a present-day discovery would match up with something that was described as common place. That, and our own contacts with alien life, including the Fleeblebroxians and a creature like one of our dinosaurs. So I'm writing you this letter, and hope to hear back from you.
We all here are excited that in your future people on all Earth no longer make war and crime, sparing their energy and time for better things. I so believe that this will become real one day, and I wish you peace and friendship between our countries and any others for whole hundred years and forever.
Sincerely yours,
Gadget
Это очередная «рукопись, найденная при странных обстоятельствах» — на этот раз внутри карманного сборника рассказов Айзека Азимова. Она написана на обратной стороне этикетки от какого-то вида сладостей (какого именно, по контексту понять не удалось), очень мелким почерком, похожим на чертёжный шрифт. При увеличении оказалось, что это письмо, адресованное… Алисе Селезнёвой. Вот как оно выглядит:
Dear Alice Seleznyova,
Golly! I can hardly believe I am writing to you, someone I only have seen on tv. I mean, until recently, I thought you were fictional.
But I should introduce myself. I'm Gadget, and I'm a Rescue Ranger. I work with a team of four others — Chip, Dale, Monty and Zipper — and we work to solve crime in the city.
One night, when Dale was watching one of his Late Late shows because he loves watching television, he saw a movie about your adventures. First time it was a bit hard to understand but with my translation we all get into it and stayed until its end during four nights. Say, are these stories real, or are they completely made up. And few weeks then, the animation about your adventures wound up being a show we all liked and started watching. Chip and Dale liked it for the adventure, Monty liked the battles, Zipper liked it for all of the different aliens and I liked it for all the inventions.
When I started finding books on you and your friend Pashka's adventures, I suddenly began to wonder if you really existed and weren't fictional after all. The more I read, the more I wondered, especially when a present-day discovery would match up with something that was described as common place. That, and our own contacts with alien life, including the Fleeblebroxians and a creature like one of our dinosaurs. So I'm writing you this letter, and hope to hear back from you.
We all here are excited that in your future people on all Earth no longer make war and crime, sparing their energy and time for better things. I so believe that this will become real one day, and I wish you peace and friendship between our countries and any others for whole hundred years and forever.
Sincerely yours,
Gadget