Evgeniy Limanskiy - Confession… A fairy tale in the style of sentimental cynicism

Infantry.

Hetaera

Harvesting.

While just in case.

Another entertaining fact about Eva, I accidentally knew out when I found out the date of her birthday. In my youth I read the research of Academician Yevgeny Viktorovich Tarle about Bonaparte Napoleon. Among other things, I remember the dates of the birth and death of the Great Emperor 15.08.1769—05.05.1821. Eva was also born on August 15. The devil knows, maybe the stars of her and Emperor stand in the same sequence and in the same sequence affect their fate.

If you combine all the individual facts of the biography of Eva, you can call it even tragic. Men who came across her on life’s path were characterized by a pathological violation of the psyche and morality. The strangest thing is that after going through all this, she was able to maintain moral purity and composure.

Another talent of Eva is the amazing ability to make your life comfortable, even if it’s not life, but only moments. She without any effort and even sincerely does so that it makes you feel good, only because she is just nearby. Everything for you, any your desire instantly becomes important to her. You are the main, you are beloved, and you are the only one. For all this, you need only one small condition; you should be interesting to her.

Each representative of amateur flirting uses it to achieve one specific goal, corresponding to the certain needs level of the Maslow pyramid. Eva used flirting consistently to achieve each level of needs right up to the highest-level Self-realization. In addition, flirting from the point of view of Eva is a tool for studying and subsequently applying for her own purposes male psychology, ethics and morality.

Our narration also touches upon such an immense question of permissiveness. What and who is allowed in this life. This question is possible for consideration within the framework of this text. However, at the preface I do not have any thoughts yet, how it can be used. Now I just add a lengthy quote from “Crime and Punishment” which Dostoevsky put in the mouth of Porphyry Petrovich and Rodion Raskolnikov himself, and then we will see what we can do with this:

– Yes, and you insist, that an act of enforcement crimes is accompanied by always disease. Very, very original, but… I, actually, not this part of your article interested, and some thought, missed at the end of the article, but which you, unfortunately, spend only a hint, unclearly… In a word, if you remember, there is some hint that there are some such persons in the world who can… that is, not that they can, and have every right to commit all sorts of atrocities and crimes, and that for them as if the law is not written…

– No, no, not quite because, – Porphyry replied, – The thing is that in their (respectful “his”) article all people are somehow divided into “ordinary” and “unusual”. Ordinary people should live in obedience and have no right to cross the law, because they are, you see, ordinary. And unusual have the right to do any crimes and in every possible way to transgress the law, actually because they unusual. So, you mean, if I am not mistaken?

…As for my division of people into ordinary and unusual, I agree that it is somewhat arbitrary, but I do not insist on exact figures. I only believe my main idea. It consists precisely in the fact that people, according to the law of nature, are divided into two categories: the lowest (ordinary), that is, so to speak, on the material that serves only for the birth of their own kind, and actually on people, that is, having the gift or talent to say a new word in their environment. Differences there are of course endless, but the characteristics of both discharges rather abrupt: the first category, that is, the material, generally speaking, people are by nature conservative, staid, live in obedience and like being obedient. I think they ought to be obedient, because that is their appointment, and there is absolutely nothing humiliating for them in it. The second category all transgress the law, are destroyers or inclined to, according to their abilities. The crimes of these people are, of course, relative and many-sided; for the most part, they demand, in a wide variety of statements, the destruction of the present for the better. But if he needs, for his idea, to step at least over a corpse, through blood, then he inside himself, in conscience, can, in my opinion, give himself permission to step over blood, – looking, however, in theory and in size of it, – notice it. In this sense only I also speak in my article about their right to a crime.

Stop; let us have a brake for a moment, because I have a desire to develop the subject of Hennessy. I would divide this topic into three. First, maybe not as often as I would like, but I like and drink this cognac, from time to time VS, and less VSOP. And from this point of view my conscience will be clean when we would come to the third question. The choice of last partner in my life have been well thought out and the only correct, and is not a subject to appeal. However, hand on heart, I do not think of myself as so great connoisseur of cognac, to distinguish with closing eyes Hennessy from Camus or Courvoisier. Moreover, I was not lazy and looked in Internet on cognac ratings in all over the World, and it turns out that Hennessy is not always located in the first place. However, here then comes the second question. Despite all the possible ratings in favor of other brands in the World Hennessy was and remains in Russia at the beginning of the twenty-first century the number one drink. I even think that in Russian mentality, Hennessy is not only the main and the best drink, but it is already a symbol. It has become the symbol of wealth, prosperity and success, same undeniable as crimson jackets were at the dawn of second coming capitalism, and then, when capitalism in Russia has strengthened slightly, already Mercedes 600 became. Moreover, as a symbol of something highest in terms of versatility and democracy Hennessy is much more convenient and affordable than the Mercedes 600. Unlike Mercedes, which could be used by only very elected persons, Hennessy, having all the features of high-end product, however is available to millions. Well, really, almost any person at least once in life can afford to try Hennessy VS and even Hennessy VSOP. You just only need to accumulate 2200 or 3600 rubles accordingly, and you can feel yourself as a representative of high society. And it does not matter that really elite drink is Hennessy X.O and above. For most people, the word and the notion of Hennessy itself is already a pass to the elite world.

I have imagined such a surreal picture, when a group of homeless people, basking by the fire at the backyard behind garages and drinking a bottle of elite beverage and conduct secular dainty conversation. And this picture is not so surreal, at least if you compare it with the opportunity to see the same tramp while driving Mercedes 600. So I think that my subjective choice in favor of Hennessy cognac, in my suicidal plan coincided to one of the main alcohol trends in modern Russia. The key words here are “my own” and “subjective”. Because we come to the third question, and so I stop theorizing and I suggest you, Eugene, as my former and possibly future business partner, to organize a joint business related to publication of our book.

After writing this, I realized that I do not exist in your life any more. However, I suggest you a partnership. Aren’t you afraid to do business with the dead? Pardon, I am just joking.

Proposal is the following. I am not in vain several times insisted in previous text on my “own choice” and “subjectivity”. The fact is that I voluntarily and naturally (and not by prior arrangement) created in my text effect of “Product placement”. If someone does not know, Product placement is a hidden form of advertising when a particular product appears in movie or in book, and in the course of the narrative this product is given some attention. The ultimate goal of the insertion description the definite product in the narrative is to draw the attention of the viewer or reader on this very product. Therefore, I have created my own quite concrete Product placement, and, I think, it is rather powerful. Powerful so that, provided that the text will ever be available to a wider audience than you and me, and even a common inhabitant, who read it, he just will have to wish to taste Hennessy VS, not to mention the Hennessy VSOP. He will have to taste it even only to understand, what it is to die with pleasure. You know, Eugene, I think, it is a pun or even an oxymoron – “To die with pleasure”, and even better way – “Even to die with pleasure!” And it is already chic slogan. I hope you already catch what I mean. You need while without any literary frills now (the more you as also me, not very capable on it) to make a translation of this text into English. To make it so that general meaning become clear, and send to the headquarters of the Hennessy marketing Department. I very much hope that Hennessy staff is versed in marketing so much to understand that the text (not just this specifically, but generally all entire text) is just a gift of fate. Because it is pure and sincere Product placement, not ordered and prepaid, but resulting in a natural way. I believe you know what I mean. Nevertheless, I will try to explain. You remember, perhaps, that I love the actor Tom Hanks; he is a super positive hero with great charm. You also remember the movie “Cast Away” with Tom Hanks in the lead role. It is thanks to Tom Hanks film turned out so interesting, exciting, but at the same time, very touching and I would even say soulful. However, what an obvious Product placement with volleyball ball Wilson is there. A more powerful impact on the consumer is difficult to come up with. I imagine very clearly, as after watching this movie, the average family visiting a sports store, and child’s shy hand reaches for the ball Wilson, and the parents of the child, also watched this movie, just cannot say no and buying him the ball. I think Wilson has statistics on how much their sales jumped after the movie came out. Here it is a classic embodiment of the winged phrase “the Magic power of art”!