The Man Who Was Afraid (Foma Gordyéeff)
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We will take up science, put stylish hats on our heads, we'll do everything that is necessary in order to lose our features, and there will be nothing by which to distinguish us from other people. It has become a custom to make Gymnasium students of all children. The merchants, the nobles, the commoners —all are adjusted to match the same colour. They dress them in gray and teach them all the same sub- jects. They grow man even as they grow a tree.
Why do they do it ? No one knows. Even a log c...ould be told from another by its knot at least, while here they want to plane the people over so that all of them should look alike. The coffin is already waiting for us old people. Ye-es ! It may be that about fifty years hence, no one will believe that I lived in this world. I, Anany, the son of Savva, by the surname i64 THE MAN WHO WAS AFRAID of Shchurov. So ! And that I, Anany, feared no one, save God. And that in my youth I was a peasant, that all the land I possessed then was two desyatins and a quarter ; while toward my old age I have hoarded up eleven thousand desyatins,^\ forests, and perhaps two millions in cash." " There, they always speak of money !
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
We will take up science, put stylish hats on our heads, we'll do everything that is necessary in order to lose our features, and there will be nothing by which to distinguish us from other people. It has become a custom to make Gymnasium students of all children. The merchants, the nobles, the commoners —all are adjusted to match the same colour. They dress them in gray and teach them all the same sub- jects. They grow man even as they grow a tree.
Why do they do it ? No one knows. Even a log c...ould be told from another by its knot at least, while here they want to plane the people over so that all of them should look alike. The coffin is already waiting for us old people. Ye-es ! It may be that about fifty years hence, no one will believe that I lived in this world. I, Anany, the son of Savva, by the surname i64 THE MAN WHO WAS AFRAID of Shchurov. So ! And that I, Anany, feared no one, save God. And that in my youth I was a peasant, that all the land I possessed then was two desyatins and a quarter ; while toward my old age I have hoarded up eleven thousand desyatins,^\ forests, and perhaps two millions in cash." " There, they always speak of money !
What to read after The Man Who Was Afraid (Foma Gordyéeff)?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Gorky Maksim to read onlineMoreLess
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