Про котов, чаек, улиток и людей

Kak nauchitʹ drugogo letatʹ, esli sam eshchë ne otrastil krylʹi͡a? Kak vzletetʹ, esli boishʹsi͡a otorvatʹsi͡a ot zemli? Tak mnogo voprosov, na kotorye ne naĭti prostykh otvetov - ni li͡udi͡am, ni kotam, ni chaĭkam. A ulitkam uzh i podavno. Vse oni zhivut po sosedstvu s nami, i u kazhdogo svoi͡a istorii͡a. Istorii͡a portovogo kota Sorbasa nachalasʹ, kogda emu na golovu svalilasʹ chaĭka. Sushchestvo sovsem na nego ne pokhozhee, kotoroe on dolzhen vyrastitʹ i postavitʹ na krylo. No kak? Vedʹ letatʹ - ėto t͡selai͡a nauka. Khoti͡a i polzatʹ, po pravde govori͡a, tozhe neprosto. Von kak medlenno polzët ulitka. No ona toropitsi͡a, eĭ nuzhno naĭti sebe imi͡a, inache eë istorii͡a ne nachnëtsi͡a. Ustupite eĭ dorogu! Tolʹko kot s grecheskim profilem, kazhetsi͡a, nikuda ne speshit. Vedʹ on uzhe nashël samoe glavnoe… I pustʹ v ego istorii, kak i v drugikh, net volshebstva, no zato estʹ mesto obyknovennomu chudu.

How can you teach someone else to fly if you haven't grown wings yet? How to take off if you're afraid to get off the ground? There are so many questions to which there are no simple answers — neither to humans, nor to cats, nor to seagulls. And snails are even more so. They all live next door to us, and everyone has their own story. The story of the harbor cat Sorbas began when a seagull fell on his head. A creature that doesn't look like him at all, which he has to grow and put on a wing. But how? After all, flying is a whole science. Although crawling, in truth, is not easy either. See how slowly the snail is crawling. But she's in a hurry, she needs to find a name for herself, otherwise her story won't begin. Make way for her! Only the cat with the Greek profile doesn't seem to be in a hurry. After all, he had already found the most important thing.… And let there be no magic in his story, as in others, but there is a place for an ordinary miracle.