Lyudmila Ulitskaya. Green tent (№ 78364)

Now he was thinking about his younger guys, and knew how close processes of the metamorphosis which occurs with insects. Innocent kids, human larvae, they consume all sorts of writing, some throw, suck, chew, swallow everything in the experience, and then pupate, and pupae inside all folds in just the right order, to build the needed reflexes are developed, skills are trained, the primary view of the world learned. But how many pupae are killed before reaching its last phase, and not tresnuv the seam, not by releasing himself from the butterfly. Anima, anima, darling... Colored, flying, short lived and beautiful. But how many remains a larvae and lives to death, not realizing that maturity never came.