Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin. Pit (№ 278030)

But, you know, it is very much boring and disgusting. Like those of flies, which now represented the Professor. Slapelis for a moment on the windowsill, and then in some stupid surprise scratched his hind legs back and shattered forever. A plant here love?.. So for this I am the hero of their romance. I'm ugly, women are timid, shy and polite. They crave here wild passions, bloody jealousy, tears, poisonings, beatings, sacrifices, in a word, hysterical romanticism.