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Трощейкин. Кстати, Антонина Павловна, вы знаете, кто ещё, как вы, ест по утрам три пятых морковки?
Антонина Павловна. Кто?
Трощейкин. Не знаю, - я вас спрашиваю.
Любовь. Алёша сегодня в милом, шутливом настроении. Что, мамочка, что ты хочешь до завтрака делать? Хочешь, пойдём погулять? К озеру? Или зверей посмотрим?
Антонина Павловна. Каких зверей?
Любовь. На пустыре цирк остановился.
(Troshcheykin asks Antonina Pavlovna if she knows who else eats every morning, as she does, three fifths of a carrot? She doesn't know and asks him, but he doesn't know either. Then Lyubov' proposes to go to see animals in the wandering circus. "The Event," Act One)
The answer to the question is: hare, the animal to which Vera compares her and Lyubov''s mother:
Вера. Мама на машинке стучит, как зайчик на барабане.
(Mother taps the keys of her typewriter, like a little hare beating the drum. Ibid.)
Characteristically, Antonina Pavlovna is the only one who is not afraid of Barbashin: Меня Барбашиным не испугаешь. (Act Three) On the other hand, it is the hare (Balda's "younger brother") that wins the race with a little devil in Pushkin's Tale of the Priest and of his Workman Balda (1830).
Alexey Sklyarenko
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Антонина Павловна. Кто?
Трощейкин. Не знаю, - я вас спрашиваю.
Любовь. Алёша сегодня в милом, шутливом настроении. Что, мамочка, что ты хочешь до завтрака делать? Хочешь, пойдём погулять? К озеру? Или зверей посмотрим?
Антонина Павловна. Каких зверей?
Любовь. На пустыре цирк остановился.
(Troshcheykin asks Antonina Pavlovna if she knows who else eats every morning, as she does, three fifths of a carrot? She doesn't know and asks him, but he doesn't know either. Then Lyubov' proposes to go to see animals in the wandering circus. "The Event," Act One)
The answer to the question is: hare, the animal to which Vera compares her and Lyubov''s mother:
Вера. Мама на машинке стучит, как зайчик на барабане.
(Mother taps the keys of her typewriter, like a little hare beating the drum. Ibid.)
Characteristically, Antonina Pavlovna is the only one who is not afraid of Barbashin: Меня Барбашиным не испугаешь. (Act Three) On the other hand, it is the hare (Balda's "younger brother") that wins the race with a little devil in Pushkin's Tale of the Priest and of his Workman Balda (1830).
Alexey Sklyarenko
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