<i>There is but one problem --
the only one in the world --
to restore to men a spiritual
content, spiritual concerns....</i>
<b>-- A de St. Exupery</b>
The customs inspector had a round smooth face which
registered the most benevolent of attitudes. He was
respectfully cordial and solicitous.
"Welcome," he murmured. "How do you like our sunshine?" He
glanced at the passport in my hand. "Beautiful morning, isn't
it?"
I proffered him my passport and stood the suitcase on the
white counter. The inspector rapidly leafed through it with his
long careful fingers. He was dressed in a white uniform with
silver buttons and silver braid on the shoulders. He laid the
passport aside and touched the suitcase with the tips of his
fingers.
"Curious," he said. "The case has not yet dried. It is
difficult to imagine that somewhere the weather can be bad."
"Yes," I said with a sigh, "we are already well into the
autumn," and opened the suitcase.
The inspector smiled sympathetically and glanced at it
absent-mindedly. "It's impossible amid our sunshine to
visualize an autumn. Thank you, that will be quite all
right.... Rain, wet roofs, wind...
"And what if I have something hidden under the linen?" I
asked -- I don't appreciate conversations about the weather. He
laughed heartily.
"Just an empty formality," he said. "Tradition. A
conditioned reflex of all customs inspectors, if you will." He
handed me a sheet of heavy paper. "And here is another
conditioned reflex. Please read it -- it's rather unusual. And
sign it if you don't mind."
I read. It was a law concerning immigration, printed in
elegant type on heavy paper and in four languages. Immigration
was absolutely forbidden. The customs man regarded me steadily.
"Curious, isn't it?" he asked.
"In any case it's intriguing," I replied, drawing my
fountain pen. "Where do I sign?"
"Where and how you please," said the customs man. "Just
across will do."
I signed under the Russian text over the line "I have been
informed on the immigration laws."
'Thank you," said the customs man, filing the paper away
in his desk, 'Now you know practically all our laws. And during
your entire stay -- How long will you be staying with us?"
I shrugged my shoulders.
"It's difficult to say in advance. Depends on how the work
will go."
"Shall we say a month?"
'That would be about it. Let's say a month."
"And during this whole month," he bent over the passport
making some notation, "during this entire month you won't need
any other laws." He handed me my passport. "I shouldn't even
have to mention that you can prolong your stay with us to any
reasonable extent. But in the meantime, let it be thirty days.
If you find it desirable to stay longer, visit the police
station on the 16th of May and pay one dollar... You have
dollars?"
"Yes."
"That's fine. By the way, it is not at all necessary to
have exclusively a dollar. We accept any currency. Rubles,
pounds, cruzeiros."
"I don't have cruzeiros," I said. 'I have only dollars,
rubles, and some English pounds. Will that suit you?"
"Undoubtedly. By the way, so as not to forget, would you
please deposit ninety dollars and seventy-two cents."
"With pleasure," I said, "but why?"
"It's customary. To guarantee the minimum needs. We have
never had anyone with us who did not have some needs."
I counted out ninety-one dollars, and without sitting
down, he proceeded to write out a receipt. His neck grew red
from the awkward position. I looked around. The white counter
stretched along the entire pavilion. On the other side of the
barrier, customs inspectors in white smiled cordially, laughed,
explained things in a confidential manner. On this side,
brightly clad tourists shuffled impatiently, snapped suitcase
locks, and gaped excitedly. While they waited they feverishly
thumbed through advertising brochures, loudly devised all kinds
of plans, secretly and openly anticipated happy days ahead, and
now thirsted to surmount the white counter as quickly as
possible. Sedate London clerks and their athletic-looking
brides, pushy Oklahoma farmers in bright shirts hanging outside
Bermuda shorts and sandals over bare feet, Turin workers with
their well-rouged wives and numerous children, small-time
Catholic bosses from Spain, Finnish lumbermen with their pipes
considerately banked, Hungarian basketball players, Iranian
students, union organizers from Zambia...
The customs man gave me my receipt and counted out
twenty-eight cents change.
"Well -- there is all the formality. I hope I haven't
detained you too long. May I wish you a pleasant stay!"
"Thank you," I said and took my suitcase.
He regarded me with his head slightly bent sideways,
smiling out of his bland, smooth face.
"Through this turnstile, please. <i>Au revoir.</i> May I
once more wish you the best."
I went out on the plaza following an Italian pair with
four kids and two robot redcaps.
The sun stood high over mauve mountains. Everything in the
plaza was bright and shiny and colorful. A bit too bright and
colorful, as it usually is in resort towns. Gleaming
orange-and-red buses surrounded by tourist crowds, shiny and
polished green of the vegetation in the squares with white,
blue, yellow, and gold pavilions, kiosks, and tents. Mirrorlike
surfaces, vertical, horizontal, and inclined, which flared with
sunbursts. Smooth matte hexagons underfoot and under the wheels
-- red, black, and gray, just slightly springy and smothering
the sound of footsteps. I put down the suitcase and donned
sunglasses.
Out of all the sunny towns it has been my luck to visit,
this was without a doubt the sunniest. And that was all wrong.
It would have been much easier if the day had been gray, if
there had been dirt and mud, if the pavilion had also been gray
with concrete walls, and if on that wet concrete was scratched
something obscene, tired, and pointless, born of boredom. Then
I would probably feel like working at once. I am positive of
this because such things are irritating and demand action. It's
still hard to get used to the idea that poverty can be wealthy.
And so the urge is lacking and there is no desire to begin
immediately, but rather to take one of these buses, like the
red-and-blue one, and take off to the beach, do a little scuba
diving, get a tan, play some ball, or find Peck, stretch out on
the floor in some cool room and reminisce on all the good stuff
so that he could ask about Bykov, about the Trans-Pluto
expedition, about the new ships on which I too am behind the
times, but still know better than he, and so that he could
recollect the uprising and boast of his scars and his high
social position.... It would be most convenient if Peck did
have a high social position. It would be well if he were, for
example, a mayor....
A small darkish rotund individual in a white suit and a
round white hat set at a rakish angle approached deliberately,
wiping his lips with a dainty handkerchief. The hat was
equipped with a transparent green shade and a green ribbon on
which was stamped "Welcome." On his right earlobe glistened a
pendant radio.
"Welcome aboard," said the man.
"Hello," said I.
"A pleasure to have you with us. My name is Ahmad."
"And my name is Ivan," said I. "Pleased to make your
acquaintance."
We nodded to each other and regarded the tourists entering
the buses. They were happily noisy and the warm wind rolled
their discarded butts and crumpled candy w
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