Notes on how nice it is to slice a ripe melon on a red plate in the heat

The author of this book is engaged in unusual, strange, sometimes even mysterious things. He reads lectures to himself, dreams of creating an extraordinary museum, collects the memoirs of the old Muscovites on the pages, reveals the secrets of creativity to lovers of the elegant literature of Trubuchevsk and finds a special pleasure that it is hot in summer to cut a ripe melon on a red dish. Thin slices - the main thing so that the knife is sharp. Then the melon seems especially tasty and perfectly quenched thirst. It was well known in China, where the author managed to visit. However, not only in China, but also on the farm under Riga, in the village near Archangelsky, in the steppe Zavolzhier - it was not known ... And his book was formed, where everything described was, it really happened. Only the author himself was not because he often hides under the names of his characters, trying to various masks, mystifies his readers, hesitates the riddles - in a word, behaves according to the laws of the genre, the name of which - Essay