/View.info/ He arrived at the last moment and managed to send her to the cemetery.
And when the people left, he realized that he was very tired and there was no point in going back again.
It was getting dark, and mechanically he reached for the old-fashioned switch for the lamp.
He pushed the button, but the light didn’t light up. It must have burned out, he thought and went to another key, clicked – the result was the same.
Something must have happened with the electrical installation, he told himself.
Just at that moment, the neighbor called out, she had appeared from behind the dilapidated fence.
– Why is there no electricity? he asked.
– Do not you know?! – the neighbor was amazed. – Your mother has been running it without electricity for years. Once it was cut off, she tried without electricity and when she saw that she could do it, he drove her like that… I also shouted to myself – it would be best if I didn’t decide to give up the electricity…
– Was it so? I did not know. Well, well, how was your evening anyway?
– With the lamp, son, with the lamp. Do not you see it? – and she stepped over the dilapidated fence and into his mother’s yard. He entered the house and called out: – Hey, I’m going to turn it on!
And indeed something lit up – with a flashing, flickering light.
He went to it and looked at it – a cup with some kind of liquid in it and a wick dipped in it.
He remembered that on the gas lamp and sconce he had written his first homework, but that had been so long ago, and here his mother had returned again to that time which was thought to be irretrievably gone.
He lay down and quickly fell asleep. The next day he looked at the lamp for a long time.
He discovered that his mother had placed an icon of the Virgin over him. And he imagined the lonely woman who every night knelt before the icon above the lamp and wept, suddenly aware of the guilt before her mother and before something else. He couldn’t articulate what it was, but he felt it was something fateful.
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