“When I was little, I was taken to live with my grandmother. My grandmother had a shelf above her table. And there’s a steamboat on the shelf. I've never seen anything like this. He was completely real, only small. He had a trumpet: a yellow one and two black belts on it. And two masts. And rope ladders went from the masts to the sides. At the stern there was a booth, like a house. Polished, with windows and a door. And right at the stern is a copper steering wheel. Below the stern is the rudder. And the propeller shone in front of the steering wheel like a copper rose. There are two anchors on the bow. Oh, how wonderful! If only I had one like this!..”