Leonid Nikolaevich Andreev. The Diary Of Satan (№ 170575)

Do you know what a puppet theater? When one doll is broken, it is replaced by another, but the theater continues, the music does not stop, the audience applauds, and it's very interesting. Is the audience cares about where you throw the broken shards, and follows them to the trash can? He looks at the game and having fun. And I had so much fun - and the drums sounded so invitingly - and clowns are so funny tumbled and did stupid things - and I love the immortal game that I wanted to become an actor... Oh, I did not know then that this is not a game and that trash can is so terrible, when you become a doll, and that from the broken shards of the blood,- you lied to me, my present friend!