"THE SEVENTH CONTINENT" "Dad!" "Dad, what is violin called when it's big?" "Is this seat taken?" "We'll sit here, Dolly." "Our basket can be on the ground." "There we go." "May I remind you that we have something in common, that we should take care about?" "We do care, darling." "Everyone on its own way." " Dad!" "Dad, when will the captain turn around?" " Please, leave some questions for tomorrow." "I saw a real captain!" "And I saw a big violin!" " You know, captain is turning around only when ship does." "Dad, dad, it fell!" " What happened?" "What fell?" "My little basket!" "Dad will buy you a new one." " But seagulls are in the basket!" " We'll buy them too." "Imagine, Dolly, seagulls trapped in a basket." "How many seagulls were in the basket?" " Two." "And three hanks and little scissors." " Come." "We're going to get the seagulls?" " Yes." "You know, we wouldn't found them without the map." "Is this your boat?" " From here to here is mine, the rest belongs to my parents." "Will it be mine too?" "Just a little bit?" " Well, yes." "Who taught you that?" " A sailor." "We're going." "The captains salutes to me." "You know, that's how captains salute to others." "There's no basket!" " Maybe it went to... some other sea." "What other?" " There's Black sea, Red, Yellow," "Green sea and Atlantic." " I like yellow!" "Good evening." "Good night, good night, good night!" "What sea is this?" "They forgot to color this sea!" "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven," "minus one, five." "What is that?" " That is half of something." " Of what?" "You know, that's the white whale." "He's not moving." " Maybe he's asleep." "That's an island!" "This island is constantly getting inside my shoe!" "Show me the seagulls." "They'll come back." "What is that?" "Maybe it's..." "This is a funny boat!" "You just knock and go inside." "This is just a door, the real boat is over there!" "It's gone." "The sea must've taken it away." " Taken it where?" "Look on the map." "What is that?" "A flower?" "...four, five, six, seven." "It's not!" "It couldn't fit on such a small map!" "What kind of tree is that?" " You know... a small tree." "What are you doing?" "The sea can run out." "Here's the water." "Who planted that?" " I did that on purpose." "You can knit socks with this fruit." "If only there's hundred of us, we could've clasp it." "If only there's hundred of us, and more, we could've clasp the whole forest." "We'll cut out the children." " And we'll plant them to grow." "There's no children here." "Maybe they're asleep." "Where are they sleep?" " In their beds." "There's no beds here." " Beds are inside the houses." "Here, in the biggest one." "It will be plenty of children there." "This cannot be planted." "A house is not a tree." "Then how are we going to go inside?" " We'll knock on the door." "Drop it, drop it!" "Drop that ugly house!" "There, they're here!" "Children are not on this side, they're on other one!" "I don't see them." " I saw them." "What are you doing?" "Come to us." "Come." "Come, what are you waiting for?" "It's raining." "Don't be scared." "Come, come to us." "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe..." "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe!" "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe..." "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe!" "Mom, mom, what kind of tree is this?" "Dad!" "Dad!" "Join us!" "Come with me." "Jump!" "Yes, police station." "Louder, please." "What's missing?" "A boy?" "Yes, yes." "Don't be worried, we were all children once." "I was running away from home once." "Information about him, please." "Alright." "A girls is missing?" "What?" "Sailed on the old chair?" "Please..." "On sails or it had a motor?" "Alright, don't get mad." "Information please." "Alright." "Alright, you just keep talking." "What?" "A child again?" "Blond boy, six years old," "Height is about..." " Take it easy, man!" "Where do you think you are?" "My children are missing!" " Wait!" "First of all, this is not the way to behave." "All in order." "Description, when did they go missing, under what circumstances and why." "Like this." "My wife noticed that from children's room..." " Hallo?" "Generals daughter?" "Oh my God." "I understand." "Of course." "Yes, yes." "Yes, with picture book." "Yes, I understand." "Of course, we'll do everything right away." "We'll find a picture book too!" "Yes, sir!" "It was like this." "My wife noticed a little bed floating in the room, and on it..." "And two of our children on it." "Then she called for help, and until I arrived, children sailed away." "Your wife." "Yes, it's me." "What?" "Impossible." "When did he disappear?" "Taxi!" "Urgently to the police!" "Citizens, citizens, calm down!" "Investigation is underway." "As soon as we find something..." " People, don't crowd!" "Stop it!" "Make way!" " Can't you see we're waiting too?" " We have to come trough!" "Who are you?" " Does it matter who we are and from where we come from!" "Something terrible has happened!" " Our children are missing!" " Not just your children!" "3 of mine are missing!" " 5 of mine!" " People, stop!" "Stairway is full!" "I told you we're not accepting photos without information on other side." "Personal description, age and address!" "His position is in full accordance with the situation." "Who would think there's so many children in this place." "If I may be so insole, I'd like that my matter be investigated urgently." "Did you have more interesting case in your career?" " Will you create a reward?" "Are you intending to activate retired policemen?" " Next question." "Will you ask for military assistance?" " Can this be used in war purposes?" "It's seen that one child is sailing on a wooden horse, is that a new Trojan horse?" "I'm not authorized to talk about that." " Your opinion on modern marriage?" "Maybe Barbara Derr will stop filming because her daughter is missing!" "Maybe it's a blackmail!" " What amount is that?" "Your favourite author of crime novels?" " Do you have any more questions?" "Are political speculations hiding behind this event?" "Can you confute that you're not giving advantage of children based on political activity of their parents?" "Attention!" "Attention!" "Search for the missing children is going according to previously accorded plan." "To maintain order and peace in the meantime, it's necessary that everyone who left their workplace in panic, return immediately and get involved in working process." "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe!" "Now I'll show you the biggest tree on the world." "It's big like two trees!" " What he ate to be so big?" "Maybe he slept after lunch." " Can he get any bigger?" "Yes." " When is that growing?" " At night, when no one is watching." "It must have a big name." " It doesn't, it's named Tree." "What's on the top?" " If here's Saturday, up there is Sunday." " No, cloud is up there." "What did he say now?" " He didn't say, he's playing." "Look over there, it's playing there!" "Show us." "Attention!" "Citizens will receive statistical forms, that are related to the missing children." "Filled forms are to be given in alphabetical order in these days." "And government!" "What government did in this situation, is just flashing before our eyes." "They're creating statistic files from our misery!" "Our children are just forms to them!" "Try to go home by subway or by bus!" "Try to buy something by yesterdays prices!" "Try anything!" "It's in vain, citizens!" "Those are the acts of those, who got your trust on last elections!" "May this tragedy open your eyes!" "Next elections will be an exam of your maturity!" "Citizens, vote for our political program, that guarantees system of complete security for you and your children!" "And government!" "What government did in this situation, is just flashing before our eyes." "In the meantime, news about missing children are arriving from all over the world." "More details about that you can hear in the next program." "Parents, if you buy products from candy factory, Exquisite, you have more chance that your child will come home." "Remember, Exquisite!" "Exquisite!" "Exquisite!" "For all children, Exquisite!" "It is time that the Almighty turn his back on you!" "Because, how many of you is worried for the salvation of their soul?" "You're quiet." "Not even the heavenly gate keeper remembers when was the last time he received the last righteous one from this world!" "Tell me, where are your children?" "Where is your son?" "Where is your son?" "And where is your daughter?" "Where is your daughter?" "And your child?" "And your child?" "And yours?" "And yours?" "Yours?" "Yours?" "If someone know, speak now." "Maybe you know." "Even if I do, I wouldn't tell you." "No." "I mustn't get in the way in business of the Almighty." "My duty is to warn you!" "The sings are shown!" "Let me talk to my wife." "Yes, it's me." "Calm down, please calm down!" "Just in case report the missing to a detective agency, here's the number." "I'll call you later." "Yes?" "Confirming reception." "Tango, Venus, Pope, Conus, Romeo." "I'm expecting instructions." "Spiral, Juliette, sending data." "By calculation alpha, engaging army units in searching missing children, ineffective." "Plan disturbed by emotional load of all military formations." "Crew of rocket units, Dad's mistake, absent 74.7 zero, zero." "Crew of the airplane base delta 3, absent 87.2 zero, zero." "Crew of the combined units, Moody Elephants, absent 100. zero, zero." "Commandants of the named deserted units, act by the section internal security, omega." "Activate remains of the scout formations and engage in the action of search." "Calculation concluded." "To go away!" "Stop, stop!" "For all children, Exquisite!" "And after finished preparations, first meeting of international commission starts today for coordination of children search." "I'm opening the first meeting of the international at hawk commission." "I suggest following agenda." "First, report about the results of technical expertise." "Second, forming a sub commission for collecting data about exact number of missing children in certain countries." "Third, election of commission for bringing recommendations about coordination act." "I'm putting the agenda proposition open for discussion." "I'm suggesting change in the name of sub commission like that, that we replace the word 'lost' with missing." "The word 'lost' represents the person of any age, that wander off without presence of their own will." "Person that started journey with goal to arrive on specific place, and didn't accomplish that, because lack of knowledge, or any other analog reason." "The word 'missing' has much wider meaning." "Because is not yet determined are the children missing by their own will, or by effect of some other, unidentified force." "In the name of my delegation, I protest against section two of the agenda!" "because giving away precise number of missing children, deducting female gender, would give away secrets of military character!" "Because of that, I insist that section two be removed from the agenda!" "If there's no more remarks, I suggest we move on on the first section of agenda." "Report from technical expertise." "Examining series of items, identical to those that children allegedly sailed away, we established that some of that items have certain hydro-nautical abilities, where others are hydro-nautical immobile." "Pay attention." "Purpose of this item is reducing the process of integration activity of the nervous system." "Two verticals web from sides are there for protection of consequences of exaggeratedly psychical activity in the state of sleep." "With experiments is determined, that even in water with ideal specific weight, item doesn't showing not even relative hydro-nautical characteristics." "According to that, its purpose is completely limited." "Next, please." "This object is different from another by having certain hydro-nautical characteristics." "Please." "Well, as you can see, object is staying on surface thanks to its horizontal surface." "Now we'll burden in with weight in the size and weight of average seven years old child." "Please." "Expertise had same similar conclusions examining other objects." "Every opposite claims are form of collective hallucinations." "Thank you for your attention." "I'm putting amendment to this proposition, because this commission possesses only authorities for suggesting!" "Besides that, with unhidden regret, I have to conclude, to conclude!" " Not so loud, please." "Silence, please." "Don't disturb the speaker." "Continue, please." " With unhidden regret, I have to conclude, that views of some delegations forced me, that in the name of my delegation, protest like this!" "Tragic moments..." " My duty is to warn respected speaker that the time for his exposure is ended, so that he stops according to the rules, and does he want that description of his protest goes to record." "Of course, I insist on that!" "One sided treatment of this problem, exclusively from psychological-emotive perspective, has led to higher temperature in discussion of sir delegates, where demographic, economic and social factors are forgotten." "Allow me to remind you on just one fact." "World production of food articles is significantly behind tempo and range of birthrate..." "Gentlemen, someone is disturbing this meeting again!" "Please, be quiet!" "Missing children are becoming its positive opposite!" "By experts assessments, now are created condition that standard  besides, we must not forget the fact that babies have stayed, which creates possibility for most optimistic views!" "Can't you see that's the wrong seashell, grab another one." "There's no more." " There was one for everyone." "Maybe it played what it knew and stopped." " Maybe didn't know at all." "I think it's scared, tell her something nice." "Doll, butterfly, butterfly, doll." "Water!" " Parasol!" " Umbrella!" "Elephant, chicken, door." "Dew, grass, parrot." "Cake, cake, cake!" "It doesn't work." " Pinch it!" " Put it in chimney." "Cut its hair." " Drew a mustache on it." " Wait!" "It's not trained." "Let's learn it how to play." "How do you learn to play?" " Across the street from 4 to six afternoon." "I remembered!" "There's a man with big violin." "He know how to learn to play." "I'll go and ask him." "Give me the seashell." "You'll go to school now." "Please, be careful." "How do you comment musical incident on today's 33rd meeting?" "Effect of psychical fatigue." " Did you make some specific agreements?" "It's to soon to talk about specific agreements, but in some preparation setups absolute agreement have been made." "What is the most important in this moment?" " Optimism." "What was made in that direction?" "Sub commission for psychic rehabilitation has made a program for increasing the average of all-out optimism." "Thank you." "Children!" "Children are coming!" "Children are coming!" "Where are the children?" "Where are they?" "Who saw them?" "Tell me who saw them?" "Where are the children?" "Where are the children?" "They're coming behind the dock, behind the dock!" "Where are others?" " Stay calm, they might got scare and leave!" " Where are they?" "Is my Merthel with you?" " What about Karel?" "My Sanja!" " Tell me where's my Tahir!" "Wait, people!" "Quiet!" "Let's hear the children." "Where's the one with a big violin?" "Who's that?" "If he's here, let's hear him." " There's no big violins, they're all the same!" "Why do you need him?" "To tell us how to teach a seashell how to play!" "That's impossible!" "How can a seashell play!" "Absurd!" "Seashells are playing." "This one has to learn how to play, too!" "Why should we talk to them?" "Let's catch them and they'll tell us where are the others!" "Does anyone know to reply to the children?" "Here's a writer, he can reply." "I don't know." "Since the children left, I don't know anything anymore." "You learn how to play in music school!" "And where's music school for seashells?" "That school doesn't exist!" "Then how we'll learn it to play?" " Maybe the one with big yellow snail knows!" "I don't know, I don't want to interfere." "I never played on seashell." "Allow me, I work with seashells." "I cooked them so many times but I never hear them playing." " As far as I know, seashells create pearls, but doesn't play." "Is my Nikola with you?" " Where are you, children?" "We searched you on six continents!" "Show me where you are on the globe." " Over there!" "Tell our girl to come back." "She can ask me anything she wants!" "She can ask us all day long!" "Tell me, children, what type is that seashell of yours?" "Trokuz, Pero trokuz?" "Calcis or Calcidaria?" "That's the one that doesn't know to play!" "What are the dimensions?" "Give me the exact dimensions!" "Show it!" " Here it is!" "That's a typical example of natic, or gollium." "No way!" "It's polineces or mitilus!" " Polineces or mitilus?" "That's nonsense." "You can see right away that's stella continentalis." "When he was nine months old, I had to leave him alone much to often." "To calm him down, I was playing record with symphonies to him." "He like Kabalevski's sute the most." "So children, by carefully analyzing your question, we're decisively saying, seashell cannot play!" "We'll lose them, they're going away!" "THE END" "Translated by Inglourious @KG"