Book: Death under sail

Passion to read aloud his own composition seems to me one of the most repulsive human weakness, but the trouble is that this is a very common phenomenon and confront him, just risky. At the time, I often became the victim of it. But I always tried to be a condescending listener. If we are to carry his head on the chopping block, so to carry it proudly. And since I like to give pleasure, I not only patiently listened to the novels, poems and letters written by my friends, but it happens, and he asked them to read me. In moments of bad mood, when all I see in the black light, I get the idea that the reputation of the person with a delicate taste I deserved in part thanks to this line.