Tears Were Falling
– Once an evil inventor created a mirror, "in which everything that was kind and good disappeared, and..
Once an evil inventor created a mirror, "in which everything that was kind and good disappeared, and everything that was bad and obscene was reflected and seemed even worse". The students of the evil professor did a lot of evil with the mirror and finally tried to get it up to heaven, but the mirror fell and shattered into millions of tiny pieces. The person in whose eye fell a piece of the mirror began to see in everything foolishness, and life for him became unbearable. This is what happened to Pavel Ivanovich, so now his life is changing drastically.
15 Jan 1983
Russian, English
One evening after a hard day at the office, Pavel Ivanovich Vasin starts to behave quite strangely to family and friends. He leaves home and for the next 24 hours continues to do strange things, until his granddaughter persuades him to have a good cry, after which he feels much better.