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Updated: May 7, 2025
"At the time I believed what Lukianov said, but subsequently I came to see that things were not altogether as he had represented that woman is merely a delusion, and poetry merely fiddle-faddle; and that a man cannot escape his fate, and that, though good in war, boldness is, in peace affairs, but naked effrontery. In this, brother, lies the chief, the fundamental law of life.
And upon that a very human tale filtered through the silken monotonous swish of the downpour, with, for listeners to it, only the rain and myself. "Lukianov was NEVER in love with her," he narrated. "Only I was that. All that Lukianov did in the matter was to write, at my request, some verses.
'Ought not EVERYTHING to be for you? And this reflection would cause my heart to yearn and stretch towards her. Next, I bought a guitar, an instrument which I could not play, and took it for instruction to Lukianov, the clerk of the Divisional Staff, which had its headquarters in our street.
Presently he resumed: "As I have said, I trusted Lukianov implicitly, and begged of him to write the verses. And write them he did he wrote them the very next day.
In passing I may say that Lukianov was a little Jewish convert with dark hair, sallow features, and gimlet-sharp eyes, but beyond all things a fellow with brains, and one who could play the guitar unforgettably. "Once he said: 'In life all things are attainable nothing need we lose for want of trying. For whence does everything come? From the plainest of mankind.
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