JOSEPH
BRO DSKY
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When histo ry ends, zoo logy begins. W e've already got democracy, yet I am still
young. Therefo re , my future is nature. Mo re exactly, th e jungle. In th e jungle, it
is either the stro ngest w ho survi ves, o r th e o ne with th e best mimi cry . The leop–
ard is an ideal fu sio n o f th e fo rmer and th e latter. Plus, I am a female. The p eri od
of pregnancy is nin ety days. The litter: up to fiv e kittens. This, you must agree, is
far better than my o riginal characteristi cs. T o swim and climb trees, that I can al–
ready do. The len gth of tail reaches nin ety ce ntimeters, eve n an artifi cial one .
And how do you inte nd to turn it into a natural o ne'
The first step is inner id entifi ca ti o n . The th o ro ugh study o f th e charac ter. Th e
selection of diet: raw m eat . .
You mean stea k tartare'
Yes, conside rin g o ur geol:,'raphi c loca ti o n . Then m editatio n . Also, excursio ns into
the landscape. Ex ercises in o ri e ntati o n witho ut compass and sharpenin g of the
sense of smell. Plus lo ng-distance runnin g ove r va ri ed terrain . If in cam o ufl age,
then better from Di o r o r Gi ve nchy, but it 's better with o ut , sin ce o ur suppl y is
irregular.
Ah , but th is is pure Stanislavsky ' The M eth o d'
Yeah, th e naked man o n th e naked eJrth.
Actually, a naked wen ch o n th e Ink ed . .
Petroooovich .
Yeah, like th e o ld days w ith th e parti sa ns.
Without the patri o ti c path os , th o ugh .
Ech .
Those were the days .
You kn ow what I mea n .
In other words, a sort o f Mowgli , but inside o ut'
Precisely, Mr. President. Abso lutely ho nestl y, I sec n o thing ahead but animal s.
The combin atio n o f human appea ran ce w ith beastl y m o res doesn 't sa tisfy me;
nor, for that matter, th e o th er way aro und . I am fo r puri ty o f evo luti o nary th e–
ory, not to menti o n prac tice. The future fo r me is in absolute free dom , and a
leopard , if you w ill , is m y uto pia. Lksides, th ey' re w idespread in C hina, India,
Central Asia, and N o rthern Afi·icJ. En countered in paintings and sculpture , not
to
speak of hera ldry. And in antiquity Po mpey and Caesa r Augustus introdu ced
them to R.ome. T hat's wh y currently I'm studyin g Latin .
Commendable, coml1l endabl e . But w hat is to becom e o f yo ur French , English,
and German ' N o t to m enti o n th e Slav ic o nes. O r th e loca l
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