Quote of the day
Daniil Kharms, Accident on the Street
One day a man jumped off the tram so badly, he got right under the wheels of a passing car. The traffic stopped, and the road policeman tried to figure out how exactly the accident had happened. The driver got into lengthy explanations, pointing his finger at the wheels of his car. The policeman felt the wheels with his hands and wrote down the name of the street in his note pad. In the meantime, a pretty big crowd kept gathering around the place.
A man with pale eyes kept falling off the pillar. Some lady kept looking back at another lady, while the second lady wouldn’t stop staring at the first one. Finally, the crowd dispersed, and the traffic restored.
The guy with his pale eyes kept falling off the pillar, and, finally, perhaps, realizing there was no way for him to settle down on it, just lay down on the sidewalk. At this moment, some other man, carrying a stool, went down under the wheels of a tram. Again, there was a policeman, and the crowd gathered all over again, and the traffic stopped. And the guy with pale eyes resumed his falling off the pillar. And then, once again, everything came back to normal, and even Ivan Semyonovich Krylov dropped by into a café.
Translated by Ekaterina Shubnaya, RT
