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Are not Korolenko, Nadson, and all the playwrights of to-day, lemonade? Have Ryepin's or Shishkin's pictures turned your head? Charming, talented, you are enthusiastic; but at the same time you can't forget that you want to smoke. Science and technical knowledge are passing through a great period now, but for our sort it is a flabby, stale, and dull time.
The poet Merezhkovsky has been to see me twice; he is a very intelligent man. How sorry I am you did not see my mongoose. It is a wonderful creature. ST. PETERSBURG, January 14, 1891. Unforeseen circumstances have kept me a few days longer. I am alive and well. There is no news. I saw Tolstoy's "The Power of Darkness" the other day, though. I have been to Ryepin's studio. What else? Nothing else.
It was a conversation of the peasants about religion and government. But there is no need to send that chapter to Paris, as indeed there was no need to translate "Peasants" into French at all. I thank you most sincerely for the photograph; Ryepin's illustration is an honour I had not expected or dreamed of. In your letter you speak of Gorky: how do you like Gorky?
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