{"id":60,"date":"2008-12-26T16:44:16","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T11:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/?p=60"},"modified":"2009-01-07T15:01:51","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T10:01:51","slug":"her-majesty-the-water-%e2%80%93-the-queen-of-life-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cawater-info.net\/all_about_water\/en\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"HER MAJESTY THE WATER \u2013 THE QUEEN OF LIFE (part 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Autor: by Alexander Fainberg<\/strong>
\nAuthorized translation: by Sergei Zubkov<\/strong>
\nIllustrations: by Leyla Basharova<\/strong><\/p>\n

Did not they say that present-day deserts used to be seas\u2019 bottoms and oceans\u2019 depths millenniums ago \u2013 seas and oceans unknown to us? Why not contemplate that once, in time immemorial, axis of equator had changed its position in space? And what is hidden there at present \u2013 what mysteries are there in boundless depths? And what would happen to us living today and cherishing hopes for future great happiness?
\nHappiness is happiness. All human beings have their own separate different happiness, luck or fortune – whatever one prefers. But always are full of love and light reflected in arts types of happiness! Even in tragedies. Such are waves carrying Shakespeare\u2019s Hamlet away to exile. Such are irate crests of waves in The Sea Sonatas by Churljenys. They – the waves \u2013 are everywhere for water is part and parcel of animate nature \u2013 soul of every living thing – all flesh, man and beast. Therefore any kind of arts cannot do without water. Either purposefully or independently of each other Creators of the World and their followers in all human cultures worship water. Some of them dip into water with delight; others come to water with repentance to purify their souls. Not to mention the rite of christening. Don\u2019t I dare to touch upon it?! I only mean music, painting, and poetry. Water, water \u2013 wherever one goes\u2026Tropical cloud-bursts, snow blizzards, seven-color rainbows. And why there is absence of water in R. Kipling\u2019s the \u201cGreat Dry Spell\u201d. Throat gets parched when I read verses by this outstanding romanticist and once again sense his great dry spell. And once again the lines emerge:<\/p>\n

Let fishermen cast down their seines,
\nA drunkard drink, a blockhead strive
\nfor power.
\nLook up! The treble clef\u2019s soaring
\nto heaven,
\nTo make the music raining down
\nto water flowers.<\/p>\n

It has poured down\u2026Do you sense it? The music has poured on us \u2013 like longed for reviving water for our souls among suddenly sprung up hot dry winds.<\/p>\n

Sea waves dandled a yacht with a sail set
\nLazy waves are tapping sandy seaside.
\nA woman beautiful and attractively naked
\nis strolling in her morning promenade.<\/p>\n

Back in Moscow a year ago she
\nsquandered
\nHopeless life \u2013 no shelter, no work \u2013
\nin a reckless race,
\nWhen suddenly a rich Arab guy
\nunsolicited
\nBought and brought her to Mediterranean
\nfor just in case.<\/p>\n

Moscow blizzard is throwing snow
\nAt night bars\u2019 windows and bright
\nbillboards.
\nDowntown ladies here – shivering with cold,
\nTry to survive their stampede from
\nbackwoods.<\/p>\n

So far, clinging to Moscow in a death grip,
\nThey share its drunken feasts and brigandage.
\nA dolphin\u2019s playing in the Mediterranean sea
\nA young lady\u2019s strolling along the beach.<\/p>\n

She has forgiven, forgot her grief
\nmisfortune.
\nRemaining calm, not pondering over her fate
\nA cockleshell is in the hand, she hears
\nsea tune
\nAnd sees the prince of the childhood
\nfairytale.<\/p>\n

You would never pull in to these
\nfar away shores
\nNeither gold nor power could ever
\ntame you.
\nYou\u2019ve curbed the waves fawning
\nupon you.
\nAnd who knows what happiness is? Who
\ncould tell you?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Who could tell you, really? Where is the answer? Is it in the Mediterranean Sea, in the Black or Japanese sea?
\nIt is the eternal mystery of Her Majesty Water; and The Queen of Life may reveal her secret to us \u2013 but only then when we are eager, when we learn to listen to whisper of waves\u2019 crests and comprehend them or\u2026 well, just simply to meditate upon ripples on water generated by a leaf fallen from a waterside tree.
\nWhen you are young the world seems to be open wide and infinite. With passing years a lot of changes occur: – other impulses, revised values, newly born affections, different desires. Incredible are the ways of Destiny.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Who have they not believed
\nin me
\nCherishing hope in the hearts.
\nPets, flowers, trees \u2013 all confided
\nin me.
\nMother was happy with my
\nstudies\u2019 results<\/p>\n

I have swapped all values for freedom.
\nNow disappointed \u2013 look at the graves.
\nBurned flowers, trees are behind me,
\nI killed the pets \u2013 my dear kind slaves.
\nLook, here I am \u2013 my own Master.
\nWondering about like a sad lost soul.
\nWhy is there no more trust in me?
\nWhere\u2019s Liberty? Do you hear my call?<\/p>\n

Where are dreams of far-away land?
\nWhere are my travels by ocean and sea?
\nCranes in the sky \u2013 I am getting sad,
\nThey turn to carrion-crows diving at me.<\/p>\n

Drought. Cracked ground supports my feet.
\nBackpack\u2019s empty, not a drop in the flask.
\nDo I burn with shame or suffer from heat?
\nBitten by fortune. Remorse stings like a wasp<\/p>\n

Weary and thirsty I\u2019ll kneel to the spring,
\nStoop in an unhurried old-man way
\nSlowly the spring starts drawing in,
\nMy water reflection is carried away.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Oh, day-dreaming! What curious reveries I used to have, being eager to travel all over the globe in my youth; and, of course, to make all people happy.
\nIt sounds funny, but as a child I dreamed of finding a tight purse \u2013 to buy presents for everybody. And at that, I meant only the purse that had not been lost by anybody. Isn\u2019t it amusing? It was really quite childish. Then, later, as a teenager I got attracted by submarines. No, they were the ones carrying weapons \u2013 just subs for aqua-entertainment. In my imagination they might had been moving much faster, provided water friction is lessened. I was proud to hit the right idea. The gist of this \u201cinvention\u201d boiled down to a proposal of enveloping a submarine with a layer of air jacket \u2013 thus enabling it to get rid of any friction while moving through water. They might have moved like planes in the sky. But an engineering decision I failed to invent. It remained just a childish Dream.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nHalf a century has passed. Recently I got to know that someone somewhere had made my dream come true through application of \u201cair-bubbles blanket\u201d around the entire submarines hull. The speed jumped up to\u2026 Well, let it be. The trouble is that these submarines do not navigate just in round-the world tourist cruises, they have been sent on the destructive mission by a certain Unknown Someone \u2013 the villain carrying nuclear missiles. To forecast the disastrous outcome of such like cruises would be a nightmare try.<\/p>\n

But the dream was to become friends with Water. And if everything is set on fire who would be the first one to blame? Of course it will be the dreamer himself. If not for him there would not have been any sub-water devices at all. Agree? As to these omnipresent certain Someones, nobody can accuse them of whatsoever, no one of them will be remembered. So, what remains? A futile question, isn\u2019t it? What about this centuries-old consolation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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