Tatyana Tolstaya. Day. Look on the back (№ 224909)

Because we are blind, no, a thousand times more blind than this old man in a wheelchair. We whispered, but we stop up their ears, show us, but we turn away. We don't have faith: we are afraid to believe because we are afraid that we will be deceived. We are confident that we are in the tomb. We know that in the darkness there is nothing. In the darkness there can be nothing.