SEVEN MAGIC DOORS

                                        

     There is a very unusual house in one small town. The house   belongs to seven brothers.  Each brother has his own door. So there are seven doors in the house.

      Every morning the brothers go out of the house.

     The first brother goes out through the first door and gets into his world.  Everything is funny there, even the clouds in the sky. They look like curly sheep and smart dogs and jumping monkeys. The first brother often admires those funny creatures.

   

     There are some funny animals in his yard too. A cat chases her own tail.  Kind fluffy rabbits jump over each other. A talkative neighbor magpie stares at herself into a mirror. Three funny dogs bark reluctantly at the funny sleepy owl which lives in a cosy funny hollow.

   The funny dogs’ family live in a cosy dog-house of a very original construction.

     The brother communicates a little with the yard dogs, strokes his merry cat and goes to the street to socialize with neighbours.  All of them are very funny. They often smile, laugh, joke and play tricks. What is more, it’s always possible to talk with them about something funny, for example, about cartoon characters.

     Every day the first brother meets many funny boys and girls. They invent different funny games. Sometimes they just jump over the benches and tickle small kids in the street.

     The first brother has a lot of friends. They are fat clumsy circus clowns, owners of the entertainment parks, sausage eaters, baby-sitters and other funny citizens.

     That’s the world of the first brother.

     The second brother goes out through the second door and gets into his world. Everything is colourful there. It’s a colourful world.

     The second brother sees pink clouds in a tender blue sky. Then he sees different colourful trees in a beautiful yard and a yellow dog-house with three red dogs.

     The second brother goes to his colourful garden. He likes to go to the garden early in the morning. The golden sun rays touch the petals of bright flowers and each drop of dew reflects the sunshine. There are a lot of fruit trees with multicoloured leaves.

      Every morning the second brother eats a few colourful fruits. He tastes juicy strawberries and drinks some crystal water from a spring nearby.

     Then he looks at the blue and yellow and white and emerald birds which fly there and sit in brown trees. He also sees a lot of pink butterflies, little green grasshoppers and very little yellow bees, which make golden honey.

   The second brother goes to the street and he sees how multicoloured and beautiful it is. All the roofs of the houses have some nice colour.

     The second brother admires the red brick walls with joyfully painted windowpanes. He smiles looking at yellow chimneys which contrast the blue sky.

     The majority of fences are colourful too. Brightly painted gates open automatically to let out red modern cars or old-fashioned purple ones. The owners of the cars - ladies drive in blue jeans and white jackets with embroidery.

    The neighbours in beautiful yellow T-shirts and yellow shirts with beautiful yellow bags walk by.  Kids run in knitted orange sweaters.

      The second brother meets a lot of neighbours in bright orange T-shirts with colourful yellow bags, white shoes and silver accessories. All of them wear multicoloured caps. But the most multicoloured cap is the second brother’s one. In fact the second brother wears the most multicolored clothes in his street. His jeans are with golden embroidery and his T-shirt is scarlet-red with navy-blue collar.  He usually wears white leather shoes and a stylish leather belt.

     Then he aims at the centre of the town in one of the numerous orange buses. The driver of the bus is in his standard uniform: a rare mixture of scarlet with deep purple.

     Every passenger in the bus has some peculiarity. The second brother often sees people with brilliant emerald eyes. He notices teenagers with shining blue eyes and impossibly violet eyes. Many of them have blue and green wags. And their cheeks are generally pink. They often wear T-shirts of extremely lemon colour.

  Huge colourful advertisements invite to buy different multicolourd things. Bright window sills suggest to visit numerous colourful places. Everywhere there are amusement parks and cake shops or fantastically illuminated shows. One can sit on various colourful benches with numerous flower beds near them. The second brother smells crystally pure white roses and peach-coloured lilies and tender-blue bachelor’s-buttons.

     That’s the world of the second brother.

       

     The third brother goes out through the third door and gets into his world. It’s a curious world.

     Everybody stares at the third brother with curiosity. The cat, the rabbits and the magpie watch him attentively. Even the sleepy owl looks out of his hollow with his curious eyes from time to time.

     The third brother wonders at their curiosity. But his curious world doesn’t give him a chance to observe them too much. Soon he notices something else. Something like his three curious dogs.

     The third brother looks at the three curious dogs and the three curious dogs look at the third brother. The curious animals want to play with him, but he can’t stay in the yard. He is too curious to see everything else in his curious world.

     So he goes out to the street where he meets a lot of curious people. Curious children run and play with their curious friends. These curious boys and girls live in curious houses with their curious parents who watch them with curiosity.

  

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     Moreover, all these curious people with very curious faces and curious eyes stare curiously at the third brother.

     So the third brother speaks with his curious neighbours. And every day all of them ask him their curious questions. They seem to be interested in many things: his dreams, his brothers, his brothers’ dreams, his dogs and may be even in his dogs’ dreams.

     After curious talks the third brother goes to the centre of the town and sees a lot of curious things there too. He sees curious buses with curious drivers, who want to know where the third brother goes and drive him to those curious places. But the third brother only speaks with the curious drivers but doesn’t get in their buses.

     He walks and meets a lot of curious citizens...Because the third brother is very curious, he wants to know everything about all those people and about their friends. And he tells them everything about himself and about his friends. After that he goes to his curious friends to discuss all those curious things which happened to him on the way.

     And at night they watch curious stars which look into the windows and stare from the sky at the curious inhabitants of this curious world.

       That’s the world of the third brother.

     The fourth brother goes out through the fourth door and gets into his world.

     It’s a busy world. The world where everybody is busy with something, even the chickens and hens. Even the rabbits and the magpie are busy.

     The fourth brother never plays with his dogs. They are always busy. They either eat their breakfast or run after neighbours’ cats, which in their turn make attempts to penetrate the brothers’ yard. So the fourth brother never communicates with his dogs. And he never strokes his cat. And he never speaks with neighbours. And his neighbours never speak with him. They have no time for communication. They are too busy.

     All neighbours are always busy. And the fourth brother is busy too.   So he never chats with anybody. He hurries to his work, planning his day-time or thinking about his affairs. Why shouldn’t he in a busy world? Everybody does. They have to. It’s a busy world. A world of business, so to say.

     The fourth brother doesn’t stop on the way to his work. He goes very quickly and doesn’t even notice nice things like leaves of the trees and beautiful town squirrels and various bird-tables. He is too busy to notice those things. He sees only busy people: drivers, cleaners, pupils, shop-assistants, engineers, policemen, farmers. 

     The fourth brother is busy even when he has his lunch. He and other employees of his company read newspapers when they eat their lunch at work. They don’t let themselves to be idle even for a minute. Even when they have a bite – a morning hamburger or a five o’clock tea. And during the break they always read newspapers. They chew their hamburgers and look through the headlines simultaneously. And when they drink coffee they either make phone calls or look through the messages. Actually they never rest.

     They are busy even on holidays and on Sundays.

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     On Sundays they either plan a new business or go to a business lunch.  And on holidays they travel with their business partners and discuss with them different business matters. And they often go to business trips.

     So they are always busy in their busy world. Everybody is busy there day and night.

     That’s the world of the fourth brother.

     The fifth brother goes out of the fifth door and slowly watches his estate. He sees the dogs who are chewing their food slowly.

     Seeing the master the dogs wave their tails slowly without any enthusiasm. Then they focus on their food again.

     The cat climbs slowly down the tree. It doesn’t hurry. It slowly approaches the master and as slowly rubs against his legs. Then it slowly drinks milk from a saucer and gracefully licks its fur.

     When the magpie notices that there is no cat near the nest anymore it begins to get ready for a flight. The magpie stretches up its wings and slowly turns its head sideways to decide where to fly first.

      As for the fifth brother he watches everybody nearby slowly and slowly contemplates what to do next. Meanwhile he walks along the path leading to the garden. He chooses an apple slowly for there are so many ripe ones. Besides they all are delicious. Then he eats it with pleasure admiring beauty of tiny lady-birds who fly from bush to bush very slowly.

     Bees enjoy flower pollen. Grasshoppers and butterflies warm their fragile wings under the tender rays of the sun.

     The fifth brother narrows his eyes looking at the celestial body. Then he slowly wanders back, gets out of the yard and stops just outside it. He is in no hurry. He watches attentively the neighbourhood even though it takes much time.

     Nevertheless the fifth brother comes in time everywhere. He talks for a long time with his neighbours and watches his unhurried world for hours. Everything happens here naturally. That is slowly. The neighbours’ hens slowly stare at him. Important geese walk slowly along the fences. Even kids act unbelievably peacefully and slowly. They slowly wander along the streets with their schoolbags. They use to admire various wooden doors or a crawling snail or their own fingers. They can watch for hours some tiny ant who is carrying a bread crumb to the ant-hill. And only after it pulls it in, they slowly turn their heads to look for something else.

     For example they can sit down on a bench and begin to unwrap a sweet. And once it is unwrapped they watch it thoroughly from all four sides. And only then they slowly make a slight test bite. After which they chew it slowly focusing on its taste.

     Everybody in that world is slow. Nobody is in a hurry anywhere.

     People sit on benches, open fresh newspapers and thoroughly study the latest news.

      After that they contemplate about the leading political parties or agriculture and relax watching floating clouds and alchemical conversion of air sheep into giant turtles and leopards.

     Even dogs don’t run there. They imitate their slow masters who are in no hurry anywhere. So the dogs bark slowly and unwillingly at the cats passing by. While the cats gracefully turning their muzzles watch down the bold creatures who dared to raise the voices. This interaction is slow, of course.

     That’s the world of the fifth brother.

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     The sixth brother goes out through the sixth door and gets into his world.

   And as soon as he is just outside the house plenty of unpredictable things begin to happen. That is, he can never know what to expect from life. Life is full of surprises, in other words, unpredictable.

     The weather seems to wait for him. It pretends to be stable. But if he doesn’t take an umbrella, it starts to rain at once. While it never rains, when the sixth brother takes an umbrella.

     No matter what is the weather like, the sixth brother discovers something new immediately. That is, he may notice the new activity of his dogs, appearance of unknown birds near the magpie nest or a rare dragonfly on one of the branches of the trees. Nature is never the same. It demonstrates its unpredictable beauty. So the brother sees lots of changes every day. The wind may suddenly start followed by temporary hush. The owl may wake up and stare at him with surprise.

     Then the weather may attract his attention again. For it is impossible to predict it.  The sixth brother doesn’t trust any weather forecasts. They are not reliable, unpredictable so to say, as well as everything else. It’s hard to predict anything in his world even the dogs’ activity or their location. In fact, they are usually not seen near their dog-house.

     The sixth brother often wonders where they wander at such an early hour. Sometimes the dogs appear as if from nowhere.

     The sixth brother can’t even contemplate about it. He can’t even watch his yard attentively. He hasn’t an opportunity. Something unpredictable begins to happen to him again. Either a cat suddenly jumps on his shoulder or a bird flies by or a van goes. And while it goes by the house something falls out of it. And if it’s something valuable, the sixth brother has to return it. He can not control somebody’s vans. So his whole well-planned day may be utterly different after. He can not control anything in his unpredictable world.

     Happily things don’t fall out of vans every day. So the sixth brother has more pleasant surprises usually.

     A neighbor who passes by may treat him with ripe cherries. A stranger walking by holds out a jar with strawberries or a former classmate presents him a whole basket of raspberries.

     And at once something unpredictable attracts his attention again. It may be one of his dogs again pulling him to the neighbour’s  garden. It may be a UFO as well.

     Sometimes the sixth brother forgets his key from the gate. He comes to the gate and discovers that it is locked. So he has to climb it over. And while he is climbing it over the magpie manages to steal his house keys or a telephone or his umbrella.

     But why does the magpie need it? It’s unpredictable. And it’s also unpredictable what it will choose the next time.

     So the sixth brother has to climb up the tree and get to its nest.

     Surprisingly, the magpie isn’t afraid of the sixth brother. So it is not going to return him its plunder. Sometimes it waves its wings trying to protect its nest.  And sometimes it acts quite unpredictably. At the very last moment when the brother considers he will win, the magpie seizes the stolen thing with its beak and flies to another tree or to the roof.

     The sixth brother has to make a dozen of different tricks to get there. But he doesn’t know what else to expect from the unpredictable bird.

     And he never knows what will surprise him next.

    A Mercedes passing by stops suddenly near the sixth brother and the driver may turn out to be his former school teacher or a local policeman. They may offer him to drive him to the centre of the town.

     And as soon as the brother gets into the saloon of the car in his summer T-shirt, he feels one more sudden change. Temperature change so to say. That is, it may be rather cool inside. No wonder for he can not control the conditions of somebody else’s Mers.

     All situations in his unpredictable world surprise him, no matter where he is: in his own street or in the centre of the town. For such is the life in that unpredictable environment.

     The sixth brother often discovers unusual ponds there. Various constructions like wooden bridges and pancake booths surprise him a lot. For the sixth brother is sure they were not there the day before. He wonders at the unpredictable nature of the inhabitants of the town who manage to build magnificent things so quickly.

     Sitting on a new bench the sixth brother may see a total stranger who can ask him something unpredictable. And if the brother can not answer he addresses the question to the boys walking nearby. And the boys pose him their unpredictable questions in return.  So people even socialize unpredictably.

     But most of all, the sixth brother wonders at his own unpredictability. He never knows what to expect from himself. He never guesses where he will spend his day, what he will eat or whom he will visit. He just doesn’t know it for he lives according to his feelings. He follows his intuition without controlling his world. He guesses Somebody Else controls it. For every unpredictable thing is a pleasant surprise even when it starts to rain suddenly.

     That’s the world of the sixth brother.

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      The seventh brother goes out through the seventh door and gets into his world.

     The seventh brother is very practical, rational and business-like. He is a good householder and a good housekeeper. So he is very reasonable too. He tries to take care of the house. So the house is in a perfect state. The windows are painted regularly and the seventh door is well-polished. The yard is swept and the fence is repainted. The practical brother uses the left-out paint for other yard structures. 

     He renews the dog-house annually. Besides, the dogs sleep on a clean rug. They eat fresh meals every day.

   The rabbits chew fresh hey. And the cat drinks fresh milk followed by a meat-pie. And the magpie picks up remained crumbs. So everybody is well-provided with food. Even the owl. It gets some meat-pie too.

     The animals are also very practical. Actually they are business-like. The cat takes care of the yard.

   That is, it helps to keep it well-swept. Walking with her fluffy tail along the fence, the cat waves it sideways removing dust. Dogs serve their master in their own way. They carry his bag and umbrella to the gate and help him to carry packets from the shop. They have a reason for it. The seventh brother always treats them with what is inside the packets. Later he uses the packet paper in the fire which he makes for preparing mushrooms outside. 

    And it is the owl, who brings mushrooms from somewhere. Thus, it provides the seventh brother with natural food.

     His neighbours are also business-like and practical and rational. They are practical even on holidays and vacations.    They usually go fishing on holidays. What else can one do on holidays? It’s not practical to stay idle. And it’s not reasonable.

     And on vacations they go to the villages. What else can one do on vacations? It’s not practical to stay in the city. And it’s not reasonable. While it’s reasonable and practical to go to a village. A village is an appropriate place for business-like people. And it’s a suitable place for practical people. There is always something to do. That is why everybody is doing something practical there. That is, they all are business-like there. In other words practical.

  

     In general they grow vegetables and milk cows most of the time. But on Sundays they wash horses in a river and keep bath-houses going.

     At dawn they plant something, water or weed kitchen-gardens. And in the second part of the day they go to the forest to gather mushrooms and berries. So they are really rational and practical. They use everything for practical aims.

     And when they stay in the city they are business-like too. No idle telephone talks. No purposeless chat with neighbours. Only useful conversations. Nobody poses trivial questions. Nobody utters mere words. Nobody participates in futile amusements. Everybody is business-like, rational and practical.

     So both the seventh brother and his neighbours use their time for household affairs.

   They either rake leaves in the garden into a heap or breed new types of vine. They always find some practical occupation. There are so many things to do. One day they should make grape juice, another day they make apple jam, paint the fence or build a new dog-house, just like the seventh brother. Or in the last resort they wash windows after the rain. So the neighbours, both adults and schoolchildren, are generally business-like. And pensioners are practical too. They knit socks, check tickets in trolleybuses and trim bushes in paths. Why should they sit doing nothing?

     That’s the world of the seventh brother.

     AND WHAT IS YOUR WORLD?

                                           SEVEN MAGIC DOORS

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