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Updated: June 13, 2025
In fact the landscape reminds me of sundry ancient tales of marvels, as also does Antipa Vologonov, the man who is so strangely conversant with the shortcomings of human life, and so passionately addicted to discussing them.
As for the omniscient Antipa Vologonov, the following was his frequent comment on Nilushka: "Christ also had to walk in terror. Christ also was persecuted. Why so? Because ever He endured in rectitude and strength. Men need to learn what is real and what is unreal.
Thenceforth, Felitzata visited Vologonov almost daily; and once during the time of two hours or so that the pair were occupied in drinking tea I heard, through the partition-wall, the old man say in vigorous, level, didactical tones: "These tales and rumours ought not to be dismissed save with caution. At least ought they to be given the benefit of the doubt.
"Ah, he is too foolish to understand," said Vologonov with a sigh as his eyes darkened in meditative fashion. "Yes, though it may seem foolish to say so," he added, "some people would envy him." "Why should they?" "For more than one reason. To begin with, he lives a life free from care he is kept comfortably, and even held in respect.
"Certainly that would be the better plan." So from that time onwards Vologonov fell to stopping Nilushka in the street, and repeating to him something or another in his kindly fashion. Once he even took him by the hand, and, leading him to his room, and giving him something to cat, said persuasively: "Say this after me. 'Do not hasten, Oh ye people. Try if you can say that."
Many are the sins of earth come of the fact that the seeming is mistaken for the actual, and that men keep pressing forward when they ought to be waiting, to be proving themselves." Hence Vologonov, like the rest, bestowed much attention upon Nilushka, and frequently held conversations with him.
And, thoughtfully contracting the bushy eyebrows which looked as though they had been taken from the face of another man, Vologonov thrust his hands up his sleeves, and stood eyeing Nilushka shrewdly with his intangible gaze.
With a splutter Vologonov said: "Truly you are a difficult subject to deal with!" And with that he fell to pacing the floor with long, thoughtful strides as the idiot's voice cried in quavering accents: "O Lo-ord, have me-ercy upon us!" Thus the winsome Nilushka proved indispensable to the foul, mean, unhealthy life of the suburb.
The words contained not a particle of genuine contrition. Rather, I believe, he uttered them because he had a weakness not for words which signified anything, but for words which, being out of the way, were not used by the common folk of the suburb. Sometimes Vologonov knocks at the partition-wall with a superannuated arshin measure which has only fifteen vershoki of its length remaining.
Yes, like bees on the step of a hive did they look, and on the great majority of faces, and in the great majority of eyes, there was quivering an air of tense, nervous expectancy. Only Vologonov was nudging Felitzata, and saying to her in a loud, authoritative tone: "Very ready are you to weep, but I should like first to hear the exact circumstances of the lad's death."
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