Про котов, чаек, улиток и людей

Kak nauchyt drugogo letat, esly sam eshchyo ne otrastyl krylya? Kak vzletet, esly boyshsya otorvatsya ot zemly? Tak mnogo voprosov, na kotorye ne nayty prostykh otvetov — ny lyudyam, ny kotam, ny chaykam. A ulytkam uzh y podavno. Vse ony zhyvut po sosedstvu s namy, y u kazhdogo svoya ystoryya. Ystoryya portovogo kota Sorbasa nachalas, kogda emu na golovu svalylas chayka. Sushchestvo sovsem na nego ne pokhozhee, kotoroe on dolzhen vyrastyt y postavyt na krylo. No kak? Ved letat — eto tselaya nauka. Khotya y polzat, po pravde govorya, tozhe neprosto. Von kak medlenno polzyot ulytka. No ona toropytsya, ey nuzhno nayty sebe ymya, ynache eyo ystoryya ne nachnyotsya. Ustupyte ey dorogu! Tolko kot s grecheskym profylem, kazhetsya, nykuda ne speshyt. Ved on uzhe nashyol samoe glavnoe… Y pust v ego ystoryy, kak y v drugykh, net volshebstva, no zato est 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.