Talker

It first appears in the story " Alice's Journey ", where he is described as a large white bird, like a parrot, with two beaks and a golden crown of feathers ^{[1] [2]} (that is, the corolla). In One Hundred Years Ahead , it is mentioned that he has “two beaks instead of ears, and one ear instead of beaks” ^[3] . In the later stories The Golden Bear and The Detective Alice refer to two heads. In the cartoon The Secret of the Third Planet , he is depicted differently: with one beak and a yellow head.

The talker is a rather lazy bird. When he does not speak and does not fly, he likes to doze. If he talks a lot, he may hoarse. When a talker talks a lot, especially in the language of space pirates , he hoars and squeaks like an unlubricated cart. To return the voice of a talker, it needs to be filled with hot milk, preferably with soda.

The data about the speech ability of a talker is somewhat contradictory: it is noted that a talker is only able to repeat phrases heard from someone (also imitating voice and intonation) - but in several episodes the talker makes quite meaningful sentences that can hardly be a repetition of someone else’s of words.

Feed the talkers can be ordinary white bread with milk. For utility, they are given rosehip syrup. They also love sugar.

However, during interstellar flights, talkers can do without food for a long time; in the case of a strong famine, a talker can even be fattened with lube (robots from the Shelezyak planet did not have another meal for a talker).

• For the first time the image of Govorun, known to date, appeared in the film The Secret of the Third Planet ( 1981 ) by Roman Kachanov .
• Also the name of Govorun is mentioned in the song “Gremlin's Song” by London-based rap artist Oxxxymiron 'a.

Phrases from the film The Secret of the Third Planet (they were not in the book):

• "The Bird of Talker is worth a whole zoo";
• “The Bird the Talker is distinguished by intelligence and wit, by intelligence and wit”;
• “Search on the third planet. Search on the third planet ”;
• “It will be difficult, Kim,” you send a talker. I will come to the rescue

have become winged expressions .

• Inside the fictional universe of stories about Alice Seleznyova, the talker is perpetuated on the shoulder of the First Captain statue in the sculptural group of a huge monument, set in honor of the Three Captains ( Earthling , Martian and Fixed) on the Planet of the Three Captains .
• In the real world is depicted
  • on the plate of the Alice Selezneva Alley memorial stone ( Moscow );
  • in Vologda on the street. Sergey Orlov , in front of the restaurant "Bellagio" to the day of the city in 2014, Artem Marshak, a famous Vologda blacksmith, presented the sculpture of a talker bird. ^[four]

• In the US, Govoruna was voiced by James Belushi . ^[five]
• The name "bird-talker" has become a household name. ^{[6] [7] [8]}

• Planet Blok
• Alice's journey
• Mystery of the third planet

• Sergey Lobov. Tale of the future. Alice Selezneva // World fiction . - 2009. - № 7 . - p . 115-119 .
• Alexander Gaginsky. Cosmozo. Excursion to the zoo of Professor Seleznev // World fiction . - November 2011. - № 11 (99) .

• Online library. Alice's journey. Chapter 10. We bought a talker