Semyon Yepikhodov

I am a well-read man, I have studied various remarkable books, but I cannot make out the trend of my preferences. I don't know whether I should live or l, speaking bluntly, shoot myself. But I always carry a revolver in my pocket, just in case.

— What is the noisy world to me? Oh, what are friends and foes?... How sweet it is to play a mandolin!
— That's a guitar, not a mandolin.
— To one mad with live it is a mandolin.

I quite appreciate my destiny; every day some misfortune happens to me, and I have long since grown accustomed to it, and face my fortune with a smile.