Part 19 (2/2)

If you are politically sound, that is enough for you to be considered a perfectly satisfactory citizen; the same thing with radicals, to be politically unsound is enough, everything else will be ignored.

A man who when he fails opens his eyes wide.

Ziuzikov.

A Councillor of State, a respectable man; it suddenly comes out that he has secretly kept a brothel.

N. has written a good play; no one praises him or is pleased; they all say: ”We'll see what you write next.”

The more important people came in by the front door, the simple folk by the back door.

He: ”And in our town there lived a man whose name was Kishmish (raisin). He called himself Kishmish, but every one knew that he was Kishmish.”

She (after some thought): ”How annoying ... if only his name had been Sultana, but Kishmis.h.!.+...”

Blagovospitanny.

Most honored Iv-Iv-itch!

How intolerable people are sometimes who are happy and successful in everything.

They begin gossiping that N. is living with Z.; little by little an atmosphere is created in which a liaison of N. and Z. becomes inevitable.

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