Deep quotes from Dunno that we did not understand as children

Urgently read “Dunno on the Moon” by Nikolai Nosov before it’s banned or watch the cartoon! Why can a book or cartoon be banned?

It's simple:

“Dunno on the Moon” is a reflection of modern reality. In a world ruled only by the thirst for money, profit and entertainment, turning people into sheep. But we were warned back in childhood... The most relevant fragments of a fairy tale by an outstanding Soviet writer from 1964 ↘️ ↘️ ↘️

WORLDVIEW: “Why do the rich need so much money? - Dunno was surprised.

“Can a rich man eat several million?”

- “Eat it up”! - Kozlik snorted.

- If only they would eat! The rich man satiates his belly, and then begins to satiate his vanity.

- What kind of vanity is this?

- Dunno didn’t understand.

“Well, this is when you want to throw dust in the nose of others.”

JOINT STOCK COMPANIES:

“We also do not want to say that by purchasing shares, short sellers do not gain anything, since by buying shares they get the hope of improving their well-being. And hope, as you know, is also worth something. For nothing, as they say, the sore will not go away. You have to pay money for everything, but once you pay, you can dream.”

ADVERTISING:

“Such are the customs of the lunar inhabitants! The lunar shorty will never eat candy, gingerbread, bread, sausage or ice cream from a factory that does not print advertisements in newspapers, and will not go for treatment to a doctor who has not come up with some puzzling advertisement to attract patients.

Usually a sleepwalker buys only those things that he read about in the newspaper, but if he sees a cleverly composed advertisement somewhere on the wall, he may even buy something that he doesn’t need at all.”

MONOPOLIZATION OF THE ECONOMY:

“The best way out of this situation is to start selling salt even cheaper. Owners of small factories will be forced to sell salt at too low a price, their factories will begin to operate at a loss, and they will have to close them. But then we will raise the price of salt again, and no one will stop us from making capital.”

TECHNOLOGY CONTROL:

“Can you imagine what could happen when these giant plants appear on our planet? There will be a lot of nutritious foods. Everything will become cheap.

Poverty will disappear! In this case, who would want to work for you and me? What will happen to the capitalists? For example, you have now become rich. You can satisfy all your whims.

You can hire a driver to drive you around in a car, you can hire servants to carry out all your orders: they clean your room, look after your dog, beat out carpets, put gaiters on you, you never know what!

And who should do all this? All this should be done for you by poor people in need of income.

And what poor man will come to your service if he does not need anything?.. You will have to do everything yourself. Why then do you need all your wealth?.. If the time comes when everyone feels good, then the rich will definitely feel bad. Take this into account."

BLACK PR:

" - And what. Could the giant plant society collapse? - Grizzle (the newspaper editor) became wary and moved his nose, as if sniffing something.

“It should burst,” Krabs replied, emphasizing the word “should.”

- Should it?... Oh, it should! – Grizzly smiled, and his upper teeth dug into his chin again. - Well, it will burst if it has to, I dare to assure you! Ha-ha!...”

STATE OF SCIENCE:

“Dunno asked why lunar astronomers or lunarologists have not yet built an aircraft capable of reaching the outer shell of the Moon. Memega said that building such a device would be too expensive, while lunar scientists do not have the money.

Only the rich have money, but no rich person will agree to spend money on a business that does not promise big profits. “The lunar rich are not interested in the stars,” said Alpha.

“Rich people, like pigs, don’t like to lift their heads to look up.” They are only interested in money!”

LEGALITY: “Who are these policemen? - asked Herring.

They only rob us, hiding behind laws that they themselves invent. Tell me, what difference does it make whether I am robbed according to the law or not according to the law? I do not care!".

POLICE TECHNIQUES:

“What do you think this is? - asked the policeman. “Well, take a sniff.” Dunno carefully sniffed the tip of the baton.

“Must be a rubber stick,” he muttered. - “Rubber stick”! - the policeman mimicked. - It’s clear that you’re an ass! This is an advanced rubber baton with an electrical contact. Abbreviated as URDEK. Come on, stand still! - he commanded. R-r-hands at the seams! And no r-talking!”

METHODS:

“There was a great resemblance between Migl and Figl: both were high-cheeked, broad-faced, both had low foreheads and dark, coarse, crew-cut hair that started almost from the very eyebrows. Despite the great external similarity, there was a great difference in the characters of Figl and Migli.

If Figl was a short, angry man who, as he himself claimed, could not tolerate any talking, then Migli, on the contrary, was a great lover of talking and even joking. As soon as the door closed behind Figl, Migli said to Dunno:

“I dare to report to you, my dear, that in the entire police department the first person is me, since the first thing you see when you get here is none other than my face.” He-hy-hy-hy-y! Isn't it a witty joke?...

...Do you know who you are?

- Who? - Dunno asked with fear.

- A famous bandit and raider, named Handsome, who committed sixteen train robberies, ten armed raids on banks, seven escapes from prisons (the last time he escaped last year by bribing the guards) and stole a total of twenty million ferthings worth of valuables! - Migl said with a joyful smile.

Dunno waved his hands in embarrassment.

- Yes you! What do you! It's not me! - he said.

- No, you, Mr. Handsome! What are you ashamed of? With money like yours, you have absolutely nothing to be ashamed of. I think you have some left of twenty million.

You've undoubtedly hidden something. Yes, give me at least a hundred thousand of these millions of yours, and I will let you go. After all, no one except me knows that you are the famous robber Handsome. And instead of you, I’ll put some tramp in prison, and everything will be all right, honestly!

...Well, give me at least fifty thousand... Well, twenty... I can’t do less, honestly! Give me twenty thousand and get out of here.”

CREDIT:

“I then entered the factory and began to earn decent money. I even started saving money for a rainy day, just in case I suddenly became unemployed again. It was just difficult, of course, to resist spending the money.

And then they still started saying that I need to buy a car. I say: why do I need a car? I can also walk. And they tell me: it’s a shame to walk. Only poor people walk. In addition, you can buy a car in installments.

You make a small cash contribution, get a car, and then you will pay a little every month until you have paid off all the money. Well, that's what I did. Let, I think, everyone imagine that I am also a rich man. Paid the down payment and received the car.

He sat down, drove off, and immediately fell into a ka-a-ah-ha-navu (from excitement, Kozlik even began to stutter). I broke my car, you know, I broke my leg and four more ribs.

- Well, did you fix the car later? - Dunno asked.

- What you! While I was sick, I was kicked out of work. And then it’s time to pay the premium for the car. But I don’t have any money! Well, they tell me: then give the car-aha-ha-mobile back.

I say: go, take it to kaa-ha-hanave. They wanted to sue me for ruining the car, but they saw that there was nothing to take from me anyway, and they let go. So I didn’t have a car or money.”

MEDICINE:

“The doctor carefully examined the patient and said that it was best to put him in a hospital, since the disease was very advanced. Having learned that he would have to pay twenty ferthings for treatment in the hospital, Dunno was terribly upset and said that he received only five ferthings a week and it would take him a whole month to collect the required amount.

“If you wait another month, the patient will no longer need any medical help,” said the doctor. “Immediate treatment is needed to save him.”

MASS MEDIA:

“There were “Business Savvy”, “Newspaper for Fat People”, and “Newspaper for Thin People”, and “Newspaper for Smart People”, and “Newspaper for Fools”. Yes Yes! Don’t be surprised: it’s “for fools.”

Some readers may think that it would be unwise to name a newspaper this way, as who would buy a newspaper with such a name. After all, no one wants to be considered a fool.

However, the residents did not pay attention to such trifles. Everyone who bought the “Newspaper for Fools” said that he bought it not because he considered himself a fool, but because he was interested in finding out what they wrote about there for fools.

By the way, this newspaper was run very wisely. Everything in it was clear even to fools. As a result, “Newspaper for Fools” was sold in large quantities...”

SYSTEM AS A WHOLE:

“...whoever has money will do well on Fool’s Island. For the money the rich man will build himself a house in which the air is well purified, pay a doctor, and the doctor will prescribe him pills that will make his hair grow less quickly. In addition, for the rich there are so-called beauty salons.

If some rich man swallows harmful air, he quickly runs to such a salon. There, for money, they will begin to give him various poultices and rubbings, so that the sheep's muzzle looks like an ordinary short face.

True, these poultices do not always help. If you look at such a rich man from a distance, he looks like he’s a normal little guy, but if you look closer, he’s just a simple sheep.”

...The big bedlam gathered in Mr. Spruts's office at a large round table...Having learned what trouble they were facing due to the appearance of giant plants, the members of the bedlam became excited and, as one, joined the proposal of Mr. Spruts, who said that the whole thing with giant plants it is necessary to kill in the bud, that is, even before it develops to its full potential... So, three million ferthings should we give them?

Absolutely right, Mr. Spruts confirmed. We are to them.

Shouldn't they be for us?

No no. Not they for us, but we for them.

Then it is unprofitable for us, Skryagins said. If they gave us three million, it would be profitable, but if we were not profitable for them...

The book “Dunno on the Moon” was one of my favorite books as a child and I read it many times. Even as a child, I understood when reading that the Earth of the Shorties is a demonstration of the communist future, when the shorties live as a friendly family and there are no bad relations between them.

There are negative heroes there - if you remember, in “Dunno in the Sunny City” three donkeys turned into short people and began to do hooligan acts.

Otherwise, a world of kindness and warmth reigns there. When showing shorties on the moon, I understood that they were showing the world of capitalism. But I certainly didn’t imagine then that I myself would have to live in this world. Even when perestroika was taking place, I did not understand this.

I couldn’t imagine that those who called for democracy and freedom would turn out to be dirty traitors to their people, who sold their own country for pathetic cookies in the form of dollar bills, yachts and mansions. It was only two years ago that the horror of what happened began to dawn on me.

PS Share this post with your friends!

Our Instagram is @intrendru

Source
VKontakte

10 quotes from the book “Dunno on the Moon”

«I realized that writing for children is the best job; it requires a lot of knowledge, and not only literary ones.

Nikolai Nosov
recalled about the beginning of his career.

The author was sure that young readers should be treated not only with love, but also with respect. Perhaps this is why his books, published in the second half of the 20th century, are still popular, and “ Dunno on the Moon”

"Economists call it the most sensible textbook in their specialty.
We selected 10 quotes from “Dunno on the Moon”: Everyone who bought the “Newspaper for Fools” said that he bought it not because he considered himself a fool, but because he was interested in finding out what they wrote there for fools. By the way, this newspaper was run very wisely. Everything in it was clear even to fools. As a result, “Newspaper for Fools” sold in large quantities. -Who are these policemen? - asked Herring. - Bandits! - Spikelet said with irritation. - Honestly, bandits! Indeed, the duty of the police is to protect the population from robbers, but in reality they only protect the rich. Such are the customs of the lunar inhabitants! The lunar shorty will never eat candy, gingerbread, bread, sausage or ice cream from a factory that does not print advertisements in newspapers, and will not go for treatment to a doctor who has not come up with some puzzling advertisement to attract patients. Usually a sleepwalker buys only those things that he read about in the newspaper, but if he sees a cleverly composed advertisement somewhere on the wall, he may even buy something that he does not need at all. Donut was so tired at work that when he came home, he would stretch out on his bed and only get up to chew something. Even food did not give him the same pleasure. Now his only pleasure was to go to the shore on a day off and spin on some ferris wheel, paraboloid, or at least a water sausage. - That’s wonderful! - he muttered with a malicious grin. “For a whole week I’ve been turning around various slackers, and now let other slackers turn me around!” Everyone, you see, wants to show that he is better than others, and since intelligence, kindness, and honesty are not valued at all, we boast to each other only about wealth. Many rich people, who along with the factories also lost their income, were forced to go to work and eventually realized that this was even better than worrying about their capital all day and night, losing sleep and appetite and thinking only about how to fool someone and not let others fool themselves. Finally, he plucked up enough courage to admit his own cowardice. In conclusion, Dunno asked why lunar astronomers or lunarologists have not yet built an aircraft capable of reaching the outer shell of the Moon. Memega said that building such a device would be too expensive, while lunar scientists do not have the money. And why does this always happen: if you invent some nonsense, everyone will believe you, but if you try to tell even the purest truth, they will smack you in the neck, and that’s the end of it! In addition to caring about food, Julio also showed concern for cleanliness. “You, my dear, have too much crap accumulated in this room,” he once said to Sprouts. “However, it’s not worth cleaning up here.” We’ll simply move to another room, and when we’ve messed up there, we’ll move to the third, then to the fourth, and so on until we’ve messed up the whole house, and then we’ll see.

Chapter first. How Znayka defeated Professor Zvezdochkin

Two and a half years have passed since Dunno traveled to the Sunny City. Although for you and me this is not so much, but for little runts, two and a half years is a very long time. After listening to the stories of Dunno, Knopochka and Pachkuli Pestrenky, many of the shorties also made a trip to the Sunny City, and when they returned, they decided to make some improvements at home. Flower City has changed since then so much that it is now unrecognizable. Many new, large and very beautiful houses appeared in it. According to the design of the architect Vertibutylkin, even two revolving buildings were built on Kolokolchikov Street. One is five-story, tower-type, with a spiral descent and a swimming pool around (by going down the spiral descent, one could dive straight into the water), the other is six-story, with swinging balconies, a parachute tower and a ferris wheel on the roof. A lot of cars, spiral vehicles, tube planes, aerohydromotos, tracked all-terrain vehicles and other various vehicles appeared on the streets.

And that's not all, of course. Residents of the Sunny City learned that the short guys from the Flower City were engaged in construction, and came to their aid: they helped them build several so-called industrial enterprises. According to the design of the engineer Klepka, a large clothing factory was built, which produced a wide variety of clothes, from rubber bras to winter fur coats made of synthetic fiber. Now no one had to slog with a needle to sew the most ordinary trousers or jacket. At the factory, everything was done for short machines. Finished products, as in Sunny City, were distributed to stores, and there everyone took what they needed. All the concerns of the factory workers boiled down to coming up with new styles of clothes and making sure that nothing was produced that the public did not like. Everyone was very pleased. The only one who suffered in this case was Donut. When Donut saw that he could now buy any thing he might need from the store, he began to wonder why he needed all that pile of suits that had accumulated in his home. All these costumes were also out of fashion, and they could not be worn anyway. Choosing a darker night, Donut tied his old suits in a huge knot, secretly took them out of the house and drowned them in the Cucumber River, and instead of them he got himself new suits from the stores. It ended up that his room turned into some kind of warehouse for ready-made clothes. The suits were in his closet, on the closet, on the table, under the table, on bookshelves, hanging on the walls, on the backs of chairs, and even under the ceiling, on strings. Such an abundance of woolen products in the house infested moths, and to prevent them from gnawing the suits, Donut had to poison them daily with mothballs, which gave such a strong smell to the room that it knocked the unusual little man off his feet.

The donut itself smelled of this stupefying smell, but he got so used to it that he even stopped noticing it. For others, however, the smell was very noticeable. As soon as Donut came to visit someone, the owners immediately began to feel dizzy from stupor. The donut was immediately driven away and all the windows and doors were quickly opened wide to ventilate the room, otherwise you could faint or go crazy. For the same reason, Donut didn’t even have the opportunity to play with the shorties in the yard. As soon as he went out into the yard, everyone around them began to spit and, holding their noses with their hands, rushed to run away from him in different directions without looking back. Nobody wanted to hang out with him. Needless to say, this was terribly offensive for Donut, and he had to take all the costumes he didn’t need to the attic. However, that was not the main thing. The main thing was that Znayka also visited the Sunny City. There he met the little scientists Fuchsia and Herring, who at that time were preparing their second flight to the Moon. Znayka also got involved in the work of building a space rocket and, when the rocket was ready, made an interplanetary journey with Fuchsia and Herring. Having arrived on the Moon, our brave travelers examined one of the small lunar craters in the area of the lunar Sea of Clarity, visited the cave that was located in the center of this crater, and made observations of changes in gravity. On the Moon, as is known, gravity is much less than on Earth, and therefore observations of changes in gravity are of great scientific importance. Having spent about four hours on the moon. Znayka and his companions were forced to quickly set off on the return journey, since their air supplies were running out. Everyone knows that there is no air on the Moon and, in order not to suffocate, you should always take a supply of air with you. In condensed form, of course. Returning to Flower City, Znayka talked a lot about his journey. His stories were of great interest to everyone, and especially to the astronomer Steklyashkin, who had observed the Moon more than once through a telescope. Using his telescope, Steklyashkin was able to see that the surface of the Moon was not flat, but mountainous, and many of the mountains on the Moon were not like those on Earth, but for some reason were round, or rather, ring-shaped. Scientists call these ring mountains lunar craters, or circuses. To understand what such a lunar circus, or crater, looks like, imagine a huge circular field, twenty, thirty, fifty, or even a hundred kilometers across, and imagine that this huge circular field is surrounded by an earthen rampart or mountain only two or three kilometers high , - and so you get a lunar circus, or a crater. There are thousands of such craters on the Moon. There are small ones - about two kilometers, but there are also gigantic ones - up to one hundred and forty kilometers in diameter. Many scientists are interested in the question of how lunar craters were formed and where they came from. In Sunny City, all the astronomers even quarreled among themselves, trying to resolve this complex issue, and were divided into two halves. One half claims that the lunar craters came from volcanoes, the other half says that the lunar craters are traces of the fall of large meteorites. The first half of astronomers are therefore called followers of the volcanic theory or simply volcanists, and the second - followers of the meteorite theory or meteorites. Znayka, however, did not agree with either the volcanic or meteorite theory. Even before traveling to the Moon, he created his own theory of the origin of lunar craters. Once, together with Steklyashkin, he observed the Moon through a telescope, and it struck him that the lunar surface was very similar to the surface of a well-baked pancake with its spongy holes. After that, Znayka often went to the kitchen and watched the pancakes being baked. He noticed that while the pancake is liquid, its surface is completely smooth, but as it heats up in the frying pan, bubbles of heated steam begin to appear on its surface. Having appeared on the surface of the pancake, the bubbles burst, as a result of which shallow holes are formed on the pancake, which remain when the dough is properly baked and loses its viscosity. Znayka even wrote a book in which he wrote that the surface of the Moon was not always hard and cold as it is now. Once upon a time, the Moon was a fiery liquid, that is, heated to a molten state, a ball. Gradually, however, the surface of the Moon cooled and became no longer liquid, but viscous, like dough. It was still very hot from the inside, so hot gases burst to the surface in the form of huge bubbles. Having reached the surface of the Moon, these bubbles, of course, burst. But while the surface of the Moon was still quite liquid, the traces of the bursting bubbles were delayed and disappeared, leaving no trace, just as bubbles on water during rain leave no trace. But when the surface of the Moon cooled so much that it became thick like dough or like molten glass, traces of the bursting bubbles no longer disappeared, but remained in the form of rings protruding above the surface. Cooling more and more, these rings finally hardened. At first they were smooth, like frozen circles on the water, and then they gradually collapsed and eventually became like those lunar ring mountains, or craters, that everyone can observe through a telescope. All astronomers - both volcanists and meteorologists - laughed at this Znayka theory. The volcanists said: “Why was this pancake theory still needed, if it is already clear that lunar craters are just volcanoes?” Znayka answered that a volcano is a very large mountain, at the top of which there is a relatively small crater, that is, a hole. If at least one lunar crater were the crater of a volcano, then the volcano itself would be almost the size of the entire Moon, but this is not observed at all. The meteorites said: “Of course, lunar craters are not volcanoes, but they are also not pancakes.” Everyone knows that these are traces of meteorite impacts. To this Znayka replied that meteorites could fall on the Moon not only vertically, but also at an angle, and in this case they would leave traces that were not round, but elongated, oblong or oval. Meanwhile, on the Moon, all craters are mostly round, not oval. However, both volcanists and meteorites were so accustomed to their favorite theories that they did not even want to listen to Znayka and contemptuously called him a pancake maker. They said that it was generally ridiculous to even compare the Moon, which is a large cosmic body, with some unfortunate pancake made from sour dough. However, Znayka himself abandoned his pancake theory after he personally visited the Moon and saw one of the lunar craters up close. He was able to see that the ring mountain was not a mountain at all, but the remains of a giant brick wall that had collapsed over time. Although the bricks in this wall had weathered and lost their original quadrangular shape, it was still possible to understand that these were bricks and not just pieces of ordinary rock. This was especially clearly visible in those places where the wall had collapsed relatively recently and individual bricks had not yet had time to crumble into dust.

On reflection, Znayka realized that these walls could only have been made by some intelligent creatures, and when he returned from his trip, he published a book in which he wrote that once upon a time intelligent creatures, the so-called lunar shorties, lived on the Moon. sleepwalkers. In those days, there was air on the Moon, as there is now on Earth. Therefore, sleepwalkers lived on the surface of the Moon, just as we all live on the surface of our planet Earth. However, over time, there was less and less air on the Moon, which gradually flew into the surrounding world space. In order not to die without air, the lunatics surrounded their cities with thick brick walls, over which they erected huge glass domes. Air could no longer escape from under these domes, so it was possible to breathe and not be afraid of anything. But the sleepwalkers knew that this could not continue forever, that over time the air around the Moon would completely dissipate, which is why the surface of the Moon, not protected by a significant layer of air, would be strongly heated by the sun’s rays and it would be impossible to exist on the Moon even under a glass cover. That is why sleepwalkers began to move inside the Moon and now live not on the outer side, but on its inner side, since in fact the Moon is empty inside, like a rubber ball, and you can live just as well on its inner surface as on the outer one . This book by Znayka caused a lot of noise. All the shorties read it with enthusiasm. Many scientists praised this book for being interestingly written, but still expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that it was not scientifically substantiated. And a full member of the Academy of Astronomical Sciences, Professor Zvezdochkin, who also happened to read Znaykin’s book, was simply seething with indignation and said that this book was not a book at all, but some kind of, as he put it, damn nonsense. This Professor Zvezdochkin was not exactly some very angry person. No, he was a rather kind little fellow, but very, how shall I put it, demanding, irreconcilable. In any case, he valued accuracy and order most of all and could not tolerate any fantasies, that is, inventions. Professor Zvezdochkin suggested that the Academy of Astronomical Sciences organize a discussion of Znaika’s book and take it apart, as he put it, piece by piece, so that no one else would be discouraged from writing such books. The Academy agreed and sent an invitation to Znayka. Znayka arrived and the discussion took place. It began, as it should in such cases, with a report that Professor Zvezdochkin himself volunteered to give.

When all the short people invited to the discussion gathered in the spacious hall and sat down on chairs, Professor Zvezdochkin came up to the podium, and the first thing they heard from him were the words: “Dear friends, allow the meeting dedicated to the discussion of Znayka’s book to be considered open.” After this, Professor Zvezdochkin cleared his throat loudly, slowly wiped his nose with a handkerchief and began to make a report. Having briefly outlined the contents of Znayka’s book and praising it for its lively, vivid presentation, the professor said that, in his opinion, Znayka made a mistake and mistook for bricks what in reality were not bricks, but some kind of layered rock. Well, since there were actually no bricks, the professor said, then there were, therefore, no short sleepwalkers. They could not have existed, because even if they had existed, they would not have been able to live on the inner surface of the Moon, since everyone has long known that all objects on the Moon, just like here on Earth, are attracted to the center of the planet, and if the Moon were actually empty inside, no one would still be able to stay on its inner surface: he would immediately be drawn to the center of the Moon, and he would dangle helplessly there in the void until he died of starvation. After listening to all this, Znayka got up from his seat and said mockingly: “You talk as if you have ever had to hang out in the center of the Moon!” - Did you seem to be hanging out? – the professor snapped. “I didn’t hang out,” Znayka objected, “but I flew in a rocket and observed objects in a state of weightlessness.” – What else does the state of weightlessness have to do with it? - the professor muttered. “Here’s what it has to do with it,” said Znayka. – Let it be known that during the flight in the rocket I had a bottle of water. When the state of weightlessness set in, the bottle floated freely in space, like every object that was not attached to the walls of the cabin. Everything was fine as long as the water completely filled the bottle. But when I drank half the water, strange things began to happen: the remaining water did not stay at the bottom of the bottle and did not collect in the center, but spread evenly along the walls, so that an air bubble formed inside the bottle. This means that the water was attracted not to the center of the bottle, but to its walls. This is understandable, since only masses of matter can attract each other, and emptiness cannot attract anything to itself. - I hit the sky with my finger! – Zvezdochkin grumbled angrily. – Compared the bottle to the planet! Do you think this is scientific? - Why not scientifically? – Znayka answered authoritatively. – When a bottle moves freely in interplanetary space, it is in a state of weightlessness and is in every way like a planet. Inside it, everything will happen in the same way as inside the planet, that is, inside the Moon, if, of course, the Moon is empty from the inside. - Exactly! – Zvezdochkin picked up. - Just please explain to us why you got it into your head that the Moon is empty inside? The listeners who came to listen to the report laughed, but Znayka was not embarrassed by this and said: “You could easily get this into your head if you thought a little.” After all, if the Moon was at first fiery-liquid, then it began to cool not from the inside, but from the surface, since it is the surface of the Moon that comes into contact with the cold cosmic space. Thus, the surface of the Moon cooled and hardened first, as a result of which the Moon began to look like a huge spherical vessel, inside of which there continued to be - what?.. - Molten matter that had not yet cooled down! - one of the listeners shouted. - Right! – Znayka picked up. – A molten substance that has not yet cooled down, that is, simply put, a liquid. “You see, you say it yourself – liquid,” Zvezdochkin grinned. Where did the emptiness come from in the Moon if there was liquid there, you crazy thing? “Well, it’s not at all difficult to guess,” Znayka answered calmly. – After all, the hot liquid, surrounded by the solid shell of the Moon, continued to cool, and as it cooled, it decreased in volume. You probably know that every substance, when cooled, decreases in volume? “I suppose I know,” the professor muttered angrily. “Then everything should be clear to you,” Znayka said joyfully. If the liquid substance decreased in volume, then an empty space would naturally form inside the Moon, like an air bubble in a bottle. This empty space became larger and larger, located in the central part of the Moon, since the remaining liquid mass was attracted to the solid shell of the Moon, just as the remaining water was attracted to the walls of a bottle when it was in a state of weightlessness. Over time, the liquid inside the Moon completely cooled and hardened, as if sticking to the solid walls of the planet, due to which an internal cavity formed in the Moon, which could gradually be filled with air or some other gas. - Right! - someone shouted. And now shouts were heard from all sides: “That’s right!” Right! Well done, Znayka! Hooray! Everyone clapped their hands. Someone shouted: “Down with Zvezdochkin!” Now two short men grabbed Zvezdochkin - one by the collar, the other by the legs - and dragged him off the podium. Several short men picked Znayka up in their arms and dragged her to the podium. - Let Znayka make a report! - they shouted around. - Down with Zvezdochkin! - Dear friends! - said Znayka, finding himself on the podium. – I can’t give a report. I wasn't prepared. – Tell us about the flight to the moon! - the short ones shouted. – About the state of weightlessness! - someone shouted. – About the Moon?.. About the state of weightlessness? – Znayka repeated in confusion. - Well, okay, let it be about the state of weightlessness. You probably know that a space rocket, in order to overcome the gravity of the Earth, must acquire a very high speed - eleven kilometers per second. While the rocket is gaining this speed, your body is experiencing large overloads. The weight of your body seems to increase several times, and you are forcefully pressed to the floor of the cabin. You cannot raise your arm, you cannot lift your leg, it seems to you that your whole body is filled with lead. It seems to you as if some terrible weight has fallen on your chest and is not allowing you to breathe. But as soon as the acceleration of the spacecraft stops and it begins its free flight in interplanetary space, the overload ends, and you stop experiencing gravity, that is, simply put, you lose weight. – Tell me how you felt? What did you experience? - someone shouted. – My first feeling when losing weight was as if the seat had been quietly removed from under me and I had nothing to sit on. It felt like I had lost something, but I couldn’t figure out what. I felt a little dizzy, it began to seem to me as if someone had deliberately turned me upside down. At the same time, I felt that everything inside me froze, grew cold, as if I were frightened, although there was no fright itself. After waiting a little and making sure that nothing bad had happened to me, that I was breathing as usual, and seeing everything around me, and thinking normally, I stopped paying attention to the freezing in my chest and abdomen, and this unpleasant feeling went away by itself. When I looked around and saw that all the objects in the cabin were in place, that the seat, as before, was under me, it no longer seemed to me that I was upside down, and the dizziness also went away... - Tell me! Tell us more! - the short ones screamed in unison when they saw that Znayka had stopped. Some even pounded their feet on the floor out of impatience. “Well, so,” Znayka continued. – Having made sure that everything was in order, I wanted to lean my feet on the floor, but I did it so abruptly that I jumped up and hit my head on the ceiling of the cabin. I didn’t take into account, you see, that my body had lost weight and that now only a small effort was enough to jump to a terrible height. Since my body weighed nothing at all, I could hang freely in the middle of the cabin in any position without going down or going up, but to do this I had to be careful and not make sudden movements. Objects that we had not secured before leaving for the flight also floated freely around me. Water did not pour out of the bottle even if the bottle was turned upside down, but if it was possible to shake the water out of the bottle, it collected into balls, which also floated freely in space until they were attracted to the walls of the cabin. “Tell me, please,” asked one short man, “did you have water in the bottle or maybe some other drink?” “The bottle contained plain water,” Znayka answered briefly. – What other drink could there be? “Well, I don’t know,” the short man spread his hands. “I thought it was citro or maybe kerosene.” Everyone laughed. And another short one asked: “Did you bring anything from the Moon?” – I brought a piece of the Moon itself.

Znayka took a small bluish-gray pebble from his pocket and said: “There are many different stones lying on the surface of the Moon, and very beautiful ones at that, but I didn’t want to take them, since they could turn out to be meteorites accidentally brought to the Moon from outer space.” And I knocked this stone off the rock with a hammer when we descended into the lunar cave. Therefore, you can be quite sure that this stone is a piece of the real Moon. A piece of the Moon passed through the hands. Everyone wanted to take a closer look at him. While the short ones looked at the stone, passing it from hand to hand. Znayka told how he, Fuchsia and Herring traveled on the Moon and what they saw there. Everyone really liked Znaykin’s story. Everyone was very pleased. Only Professor Zvezdochkin was not very pleased. As soon as Znayka finished his story and left the podium, Professor Zvezdochkin jumped onto the podium and said: “Dear friends, we were all very interested in hearing about the Moon and everything else, and on behalf of all those present I offer my heartfelt gratitude to the famous Znayka for his interesting and meaningful presentation. However... - said Zvezdochkin and raised his index finger upward with a stern look. - Down! - one of the short guys shouted. “However...” Professor Zvezdochkin repeated, raising his voice. “However, we have gathered here not at all to listen about the Moon, but to discuss Znaika’s book, and since we didn’t discuss the book, it means we didn’t accomplish what was planned, and since we didn’t accomplish what was planned, then it will still have to be carried out, and if it still needs to be carried out, then it will still have to be carried out and subjected to consideration... No one ever found out what Zvezdochkin wanted to subject to consideration.

The noise was so loud that nothing could be understood. Only one word was heard from everywhere: “Down!” Two short men rushed to the podium again, one grabbed Zvezdochkin by the collar, the other by the legs, and dragged him straight out into the street. There they sat him down on the grass in the park and said: “When you fly to the moon, you will speak on the podium, but for now, sit here on the grass.” Zvezdochkin was so stunned by such unceremonious treatment that he could not utter a word. Then he gradually came to his senses and shouted: “This is a disgrace!” I will complain! I'll write to the newspaper! You will still recognize Professor Zvezdochkin! He shouted for a long time, waving his fists, but when he saw that all the short guys had gone home, he said: “At this point, I declare the meeting closed.” After which he got up and also went home.

- Page 1 -

To the begining
Back
1
Forward
In the end

List of characters

“The Adventures of Dunno and His Friends” was written and published by Nosov in 1953-1954. Later, sequels were released - “Dunno in the Sunny City” and “Dunno on the Moon”. The books talk about small people who live in a world of giant things. They call themselves runts or babies because they are about 10 centimeters tall.

Main characters

The work deals with several dozen short people. Their names are associated with features of appearance (Sineglazka, Button), character (Toropyshka, Rasteryayka), work or occupation (Doctor Pilyulkin, musician Guslya), habits (Grumpy, Siropchik).

The main characters of the fairy tale “Dunno and His Friends” are:

Dunno. All 3 books tell about his adventures. He is short and of average height, loves bright colors and wears a blue wide-brimmed hat. He loves to brag and never loses heart, he is quite brave and smart. Dunno does not like to study, but would like to become someone famous: an artist, a musician, or drive a car. He tried himself in different professions, but was not successful, because he does not like to study and work, and quits after the first failure. In Green City he told everyone that he had invented a hot air balloon. The comrades agreed with this, but a few days later Znayka came and told the truth. During the holiday, the kids began to laugh at him, but the little ones stood up, after which Dunno decides to improve.
Znayka. The leader of the shorties of Flower City, the eldest among them. He wears a formal black suit, tie and glasses. Curious, smart and strict, reads a lot, sometimes a little boring, he proposes interesting projects: flying in a hot air balloon or on a rocket to the moon. Sometimes his actions are spontaneous: for example, he can make a decision at night and immediately leave early in the morning. When the team encountered difficulties while traveling in a hot air balloon (the balloon began to descend due to the cooling air), he gave the command to everyone to jump with a parachute. Znayka jumped out first, the ball rose again, and Dunno persuaded everyone to stay. As a result, the shorties crashed in the Green City and met its residents.
Sineglazka. Baby from Green City, she has dark hair and blue eyes. She is reasonable, serious and kind, lives with her friend Snowflake. During the balloon crash, Dunno flew further than the others, so he was found first. He was lucky, as he was sent to Sineglazka’s house, and the rest were sent to the hospital to the strict doctor Medunica.

Other residents

There are a lot of short people living in Flower City on the Cucumber River. They are very friendly, work and have fun together. 16 of them, including Dunno and Znayka, live in the same house on Kolokolchikov Street.

Other residents and main characters of Dunno and His Friends are:

Tube is an artist who tried to teach Dunno to draw. In Green City, I painted using several stencils, since the wishes of the customers coincided, and after a while I completely entrusted everything to Avoska.
Guslya is a musician and composer, and also tried to teach Dunno music.
Tsvetik is a poet, real name Pudik. Dunno turned to him to learn how to write poetry.
Brothers Vintik and Shpuntik are jacks of all trades, inventors and mechanics, creators of a car that runs on sparkling water. Shpuntik is Vintik's assistant.
Toropyzhka is a restless little guy who can’t sit still. Knows how to drive a car.
Pilyulkin is a doctor. He believed that treatment should be instructive, and intimidated naughty shorties by taking castor oil.
Pulka is a hunter, the owner of the dog Bulka. Owns a gun that shoots corks. During the balloon crash, he sprained his leg, had to undergo treatment for a long time, and became very moody due to the constant attention. I corrected myself when I recovered.
Syrup - loves sweet drinks, especially soda with syrup. Dressed in checkered clothes, the only short man who has a first and patronymic name is Sakharin Sakharinich. Very polite and responsive, during the flight he competed with Donut in thickness.
Donut - prefers to eat tasty food, has a special weakness for pies and buns. Wears clothes with a lot of pockets. Stingy, a little greedy and prone to hoarding unnecessary things, but otherwise kind and sympathetic. Lazy - comes up with various reasons not to work. In the third book he is one of the main characters and shows himself in an unusual way.
Avoska and Neboska are twin brothers, they always did everything somehow (perhaps). During the flight, Neboska scattered sand from a ballast bag, and Avoska made a hole in the basket to pour it out. This caused a breakdown.
Gunka is Dunno’s best friend and lives on Daisy Street. They often quarrel and quickly make up. The last time the reason was Gunka’s friendship with the little girls Knopochka and Mushka.

Also mentioned in the book are Rasteryaika, astronomer Steklyashkin, friends Grumpy and Silent and others.

Kids in other cities

Shorties don't only live in Flower City. After the balloon crashed, they ended up in the Green City, where mostly kids live. Previously, short people also lived in it, but they left and built Zmeyovka on the river bank. The name refers to the kites that locals love to fly.

The most important are:

Doctor Lungwort from Green City. Strict and domineering, she is prejudiced towards children, considering everyone to be hooligans. Because of this, she keeps travelers in the hospital for a long time, which caused their dissatisfaction. Pilyulkin, who was a patient for the first time, was especially indignant.
Samotsvetik is a poetess.
Solomka is an agronomist who creates new types of watermelons.
Sineglazki's friends and neighbors: Galochka, Herringbone, Zainka, Swallow, Squirrel, etc. Many wear aprons with embroidered animals.
Carnation from Zmeyovka. A hooligan who causes mischief in both cities. Because of his bad behavior, the little ones thought all boys were bad. During preparations for the big ball, Gvozdik volunteered to help, and everyone realized that he was being mischievous due to idleness.
Bagel is the driver of the soda car. I took Vintik and Shpuntik to Zmeyovka, then back to Green City. Stayed to help with fruit picking.
Shurupchik is an inventor, everything in his house is on buttons and automatic control. The brothers turned to him for tools.
Smekaylo is a writer who has not created a single book. Instead, he comes up with devices to make writing easier: a listening device, a folding table. They came to him for a soldering iron.

The remaining shorties are mentioned without names or characteristics.

What Nosov wrote about the police in his book Dunno on the Moon. Quotes.

“Who are these policemen? - asked Herring.

- Bandits! - Kolosok said with irritation. - Honestly, bandits! In reality, the duty of the police is to protect the population from robbers, but in reality they only protect the rich. And the rich are the real robbers. They only rob us, hiding behind laws that they themselves invent. Tell me, what difference does it make whether I am robbed according to the law or not according to the law? I do not care!

- It’s somehow wonderful here! - said Vintik. - Why do you listen to the police and these... what do you call them, rich people?

- Try not to obey here, when everything is in their hands: land, factories, money, and, in addition, weapons! - Kolosok became sad. “Now I’ll come home,” he said, “and the police will grab me and put me in jail.” And the seeds will be taken away. It is clear! The rich will not allow anyone to plant giant plants. Apparently, we are not destined to get rid of poverty!”

***

“Migl opened one folder and began to shove it under Vrigl’s nose.

-You've gone completely crazy here! - Wrigl shouted with irritation. Who do you think Handsome is? Eh?.. Handsome – a famous personality! Everyone knows the handsome guy. Handsome guy is a millionaire! Half the police have been bribed by Handsome, and tomorrow, if he wants, he will buy us all with all our guts...”

***

“Well, listen. Everything is possible here. You can't just not have a roof over your head and walk down the street without a shirt, without a hat or without shoes. Anyone who breaks this rule is caught by the police and sent to Stupid Island. It is believed that if you are not able to earn money for your home and clothes, then you are a hopeless fool and you belong right on the Island of Fools. At first, you will be fed, watered, and treated to whatever you want, and you won’t have to do anything. Eat and drink, have fun, sleep, and walk as much as you like. From such a stupid pastime, the little guy on the island gradually becomes stupid, runs wild, then begins to grow wool and eventually turns into a ram or a sheep.

- Can't be! - Dunno exclaimed.

- Here you go! – Kozlik grinned. - I tell you the truth.

- Why do the short ones turn into sheep there?

– There, you see, the air is somehow harmful. Everything comes from this air. Everyone who does not work and lives without worries sooner or later becomes a sheep there. The rich people living on Fool's Island benefit from this. At first they spend money to feed the shorties, give them the opportunity to be idle, and when the shorties turn into sheep, they can be fed with grass and do not need to spend any money.

-What kind of rich people are these? - Dunno asked. “We don’t have any rich people.”

– Rich people are those who have a lot of money.

– Why do rich people want short people to turn into sheep?

- As if you don’t understand! The rich people force workers to shear these sheep and sell the wool. Big capital is being made!

– Why don’t the rich people themselves turn into sheep there? Doesn't harmful air affect them?

“The air, of course, affects them too, but whoever has money will do well on Fool’s Island.” For the money the rich man will build himself a house in which the air is well purified, pay a doctor, and the doctor will prescribe him pills that will make his hair grow less quickly. In addition, for the rich there are so-called beauty salons. If some rich man swallows harmful air, he quickly runs to such a salon. There, for money, they will begin to give him various poultices and rubbings, so that the sheep's muzzle looks like an ordinary short face. True, these poultices do not always help. If you look at such a rich man from a distance, he looks like a normal little guy, but if you take a closer look, he’s just a simple sheep. The only thing is that he has money, and a fool is a fool, honestly! However, it's time for us to sleep. Let’s go find a shelf for you,” Kozlik finished.

Nikolai Nikolaevich Nosov

Soviet children's prose writer, playwright, screenwriter. Laureate of the Stalin Prize of the third degree, the State Prize of the RSFSR named after N.K. Krupskaya.

Born: November 23, 1908, Kyiv, Ukraine

Died: July 26, 1976, Moscow

Date of writing the book “Dunno on the Moon”: 1964-1965.

Date of first publication: 1965

I advise everyone to re-read this book. This will be useful for you and your children. There's a lot of interesting stuff there.

Egor Molotov Read more ➤

Top 10 quotes from Nikolai Nosov that are easy to apply in our lives

stupid films, unaffordable loans, dust in the nose and a newspaper for fools

N.N.
Nosov with little readers. Photo mega-stars.ru On July 26, 1976, the famous children's writer, director of animated and popular science films N.N. was born and died. Nosov. Nikolai Nikolaevich is the author of the stories “Merry Family”, “Vitya Maleev at School and at Home”, “The Diary of Kolya Sinitsin”, the collection of short stories “Knock-Knock-Knock”, the satirical collection “Ironic Humoresques”, autobiographical works “The Secret at the Bottom of the Well” and “The Tale of My Friend Igor”, etc.

But, perhaps, the trilogy of fairy tales about Dunno brought Nosov the greatest fame: “The Adventures of Dunno and His Friends”, “Dunno in the Sunny City”, “Dunno on the Moon”. For these three books, the author was even awarded the State Prize of the RSFSR. N.K. Krupskaya (1969).

And we decided to recall the 10 most famous quotes from his works, which, it seems to us, are more relevant today than ever.

About cinema

The content of the films was too meaningless to provide any food for thought. Watching day after day how the heroes of all these films ran, jumped, fell, somersaulted and fired pistols, one could only become stupid... (from the book “Dunno on the Moon”).

Elena Yakovleva: “I’m offended for my profession. And if Buzova sings, then I can sing too"

About advertising

The lunar shorty will never eat candy, gingerbread, bread, sausage or ice cream from a factory that does not print advertisements in newspapers, and will not go for treatment to a doctor who has not come up with some puzzling advertisement to attract patients. Usually a sleepwalker buys only those things that he read about in the newspaper, but if he sees a cleverly composed advertisement somewhere on the wall, he can even buy something that he doesn’t need at all (from the book “Dunno on the Moon”).

“The disease does not spare even geniuses.” Original advertisement for a mental hospital.

About loans

It was just difficult, of course, to resist spending the money. And then they still started saying that I need to buy a car. I say: why do I need a car? I can also walk. And they tell me: it’s a shame to walk. Only poor people walk. In addition, you can buy a car in installments. You make a small cash contribution, get a car, and then you will pay a little every month until you have paid off all the money. Well, that's what I did. Let, I think, everyone imagine that I am also a rich man (from the book “Dunno on the Moon”).

There is a credit boom in Belarus. As a result, the National Bank introduced restrictions on the issuance of loans.

About the law enforcement system

(it’s good that we have police, not police).

-Who are these policemen? - asked Herring. - Bandits! - Spikelet said with irritation. - Honestly, bandits! The real duty of the police is to protect the population from robbers, but in reality they only protect the rich (from the book “Dunno on the Moon”).

ATC and glasses. How a Vitebsk human rights activist proved the incompetence of the regional police department.

About the pursuit of wealth

- Why do rich people need so much money? - Dunno was surprised. “Can a rich man eat several million?” - “Eat it up”! - Kozlik snorted. - If only they would eat! The rich man satiates his belly, and then begins to satiate his vanity. - What kind of vanity is this? — Dunno didn’t understand. “Well, this is when you want to throw dust in the nose of others (from the book “Dunno on the Moon”).

Where will Vitebsk budget money go?

About books

(nowadays this is very applicable to mobile phones and tablets)

There are more and more people who cannot spend even a minute without the Internet every day. Photo zona-k45.ru

This Leaflet was one of those book swallowers who can read books in any conditions: at home, on the street, at breakfast, at lunch, in daylight and in the dark, sitting, lying down, standing, and even on the go. (from the book “Dunno in the Sunny City”).

“Now it looks funny, but then it was cool!” What people say about their first mobile phones.

About the availability of alcohol

Igor independently read the broadcast sign on the new building: “Beer Bar.” - What is this - a beer bar? - he asks. “This is where they drink beer,” I answered. “What, guys who want to be drunk drink beer?” - Yes. - It would be better if they built something else! - he summarized (from the book “The Tale of My Friend Igor”).

Naked marketing, or where in Vitebsk they undress on a bar counter (18+)

About the press

Everyone who bought the “Newspaper for Fools” said that he bought it not because he considered himself a fool, but because he was interested in finding out what they wrote about there for fools. By the way, this newspaper was run very wisely. Everything in it was clear even to fools. As a result, “Newspaper for Fools” sold in large quantities (from the book “Dunno on the Moon”).

10 words that 2021 will be remembered for.

About economics

The best way out of this situation is to start selling salt even cheaper. Owners of small factories will be forced to sell salt at too low a price, their factories will begin to operate at a loss, and they will have to close them. But then we will raise the price of salt again, and no one will stop us from making capital (from the book “Dunno on the Moon”).

In the Vitebsk region, the poorest district is Sharkovshchinsky, and the richest is Novopolotsk.

About the society

So then tell the truth! - Dunno grumbled, returning home. - And why does this always happen: if you invent some nonsense, everyone will believe you, but if you try to tell even the purest truth, they will hit you in the neck, and that’s the end of it! (from the book “Dunno on the Moon”).

Olga Karach: “Svetlana Alexievich knows how to ask questions that a person does not want to ask himself.”