THE EDGE OF BEING Translation

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I remember my mother saying

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there was that old man with the
book, he could predict things.

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He said, the red rooster
would win that war.

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He said that was no war, the
real war would be coming.

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Everyone would be up and
fighting each other.

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Birds of steel will fly, and
horses of steel will walk.

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The water would boil, and the
earth would burn.

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The atom makes things burn
and makes water boil.

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What the man invented will be
his own undoing.

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THE EDGE OF BEING

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Ignition!

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- Warm-up one!
- Done!

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- The preliminary one!
- The main one, up!

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The ascent contact done!

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We have a small village, I've
left it a long time ago.

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Our house in Ugorye is
about 100 years old.

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In winter our house is orphaned
and no-one lives there.

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But as it gets warmer
we all come to it.

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Hello, our dear house, here
we are again.

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We have come to you again,
to see how you've been.

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You're all alone here, with
only the wind sweeping you.

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Oh the winds were great but
you stood fast.

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The storms shook you
tearing your roof off.

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Yet you were standing proud
taking the rage of the storm.

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In Bereznyak 7 km away there
was no storm but we had it.

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When the hurricane hit...

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it lifted the cauldron over
there and threw it away.

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It overturned our mill,
and the Mukhins had their

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shingles carried off the roof

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and driven to the ground.

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The Anna Stepanovna's porch
was all askew.

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Gennady was working
in Bereznyak and he said

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someone relocated a hut
there. Who could do it?

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But the church was intact.

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That's how we live, godforsaken,

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and no-one cares if we die
today or tomorrow. Because the

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density of population here is
1 person per 1 sq km.

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The pressure in the 1st
ignition camera is OK.

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The flight is normal,
the 1st stage is off.

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The 2nd stage is off.

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It's not a secret that the
Mezen district

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is the area of the rocket
stages landing.

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The districts of Myafta,
Maseyevo and Lashukovsky

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border are impregnable for
the human eyes.

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Everything's hidden in the
forest and along the rivers.

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So we're looking for that metal
in the swamps, those rocket

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stages, bring here and saw them.

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We use the prime mover
for transport. People

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make moulds, big and small.

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Mostly they make big ones now.

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This is my second one, I like
it better than the wood.

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The wooden one gets soggy
and heavier. But this one

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doesn't rot and it will serve me
for the rest of my life.

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I used to make shovels,
30 or so, for sale.

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They're stable, don't rust
and don't break.

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Before the men used to hunt

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but now they hunt metal.

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When they knew that the metal
may be good and they take it

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a lot for scrap, many people

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went for the whole rockets.

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9, 25 seconds...

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30 seconds, the flight
is normal.

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In this village they take us
for some dunces. We don't

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make any money, chasing
those rockets. So stupid,

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they fool us, but we go and
work anyway, like damned fools.

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They just promise us good life,

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but we don't have neither money
nor shit.

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So we live here like... But
what can we do?

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Good thing we have this work.
We've got to survive here.

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And it's interesting. Sometimes
you think, to hell with money.

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Our wives nag, for we're away
for the winter with no gain.

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But as you hit the woods it's
so beautiful there

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that you don't need any money.

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There are strange and weird
things in the woods, too.

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We were in the lodge at night
and heard some unknown noise.

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There was a broad daylight
outside, with some humming.

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Like something landing near.

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It was over in 15 minutes. In

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the morning we went out to see.

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And we had a hut standing there.

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We saw those tracks in the bog.

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I have pretty big boots myself,
to get more warmth in winter.

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So I compared them, and those
tracks were that much bigger.

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There are no feet like these
in the neighborhood.

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I still don't know what it was.
But it was terrifying.

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Even dogs were keeping close
to people.

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There was nothing there, only
that wild fear.

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Sometimes you feel it when
hunting. You don't have any

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right to be afraid, but you are.

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Millions of years ago
Or at least they say so

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Some huge beasts there lived
Eating grass and each other

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There were roaring and moaning
Like you cannot describe

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So the mother nature thought
That she'd created some freaks

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So small animals came into being
With furry tails and small ears

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It was a bad time to be equal
When those hairy elephants

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Marched across the plains, and
All small animals cried out

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'They will squash us to death!
What've you done, mother?'

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But a named human appeared who
Was the conqueror of elephants

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And in some millennia he
Destroyed all those mammoths

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So the nature thought again that
The experiment'd gone haywire

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Enough of that foolishness
Let them live like they do

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So the nature let them be and
Hasn't interfered since.

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It's the man destroys all living
Things now, with no rest.

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And the mother nature's still
thinking about experiment N 3.

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We were ready for bed when
Anatoly knocked, saying

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'Look at the sky!' So we ran out

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to look and there was that
glittering ellipse there.

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I remember 3 circles in it,

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dark ones, with the light
around them.

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It just stood there for a long
time and then drifted westward.

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Pelagea told us in the morning
there was a launch in Plesetsk.

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Maybe it was some reflection,
we don't know.

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I frequently go fishing in
small rivers here, and I

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see a lot of unpredictable
things.

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We went down the river once
with my son, 25 km to go, and

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suddenly saw a fiery ball,

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like an electric bulb, and

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chased us for 20 km to the
estuary, in a parallel line.

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We never knew what it was.

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Maybe some aliens, but we'd
never seen such things before.

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We were afraid at first but
then got used to it.

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The edge of being is a fucking shit
I hope God'll forgive our misdemeanors

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For everything'll pass and will be writ-
Ten off. Even the stars'll be like sinners

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The human life is not worth living, Lord
We all shall die and everything will die

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Only the universe is
deathless in this world

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And will continue to the end of time

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The rocket stages are the parts
of the nearby universe.

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And the great cosmos is the
infinity of the universe.

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Who knows what can fly from it.

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There might be life somewhere.
And we might not be alone here.

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40 seconds of flight,
cohesion's stable.

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The flight is normal.

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We were away for the day, and
found a whole rocket in the bog.

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So we sat to eat right on it.

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Then we saw a mouse running to
that rocket. We got interested

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as we drank our tea, as it
cavorted in the snow. Then

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it ran out of the rocket,
squeaking, ran for 5 m and

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wham! it went down, dead.

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So we thought we might be dead as
well, sitting on it like this.

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We had one man dead in an hour,
and he prophesied death to all

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of us. But why should I die?

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And you won't live any longer.

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I'm 45 as I am. You
try to live to my age.

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I'm 38, and I'm not going to
be 40, why should I?

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My wife is normal, I have kids,
what else do I need?

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I'm not afraid of death, there's
no death for me in that.

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Comrade colonel, the movable
launching pad with the

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Cyclone missile is ready for
the launch.

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Prepare for transportation.

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- Crew, bear for action!
- Yes, sir.

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Switch to the tail supply done!

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The platform's not at the
starting point.

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After the switch to the
on-board supply...

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- 456!
- 456 here.

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Continue situation estimate.
Give me the tech solution.

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Tank venting done. The 1st and
2nd stages' fuel is...

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Out of the limit.

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940! Out of limit.

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Suggesting the stop command.

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Colonel Atashevsky, command
to stop to the 861.

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- Yes, sir.
- Report your suggestions.

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It is so sad for our little
planet, so boring.

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We're hustling through life,
you record something there.

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What's the meaning of all that?
Like it flies down, and there's

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no more this little planet in
this small solar system

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that's been turning round the
galaxy's center for 150 million

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years. God knows.
This is so frightening, Dima.

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Starring the citizens of Pogorelets
village, Archangel Province

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Valery Ruzhnikov, Anatoly
Tarakanov and others

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Written by Dmitry Zavilgelsky
and Maria Saprykina

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Directed by Dmitry Zavilgelsky

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Director of Photography
Alexander Vdovin

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