Wednesday, June 16, 2010

A Wednesday diversion with Chekhov

What is sufficient?  The character is Chekhov's story "In Exile" thinks very little is sufficient.
"...I can sleep naked on the ground and eat grass.  God give such a life to everybody.  I want nothing."

 Indeed, God give such a life to everybody.










Photograph of Anton Chekhov (c. 1904) from Wikimedia commons - Anton Chekhov.  Quotation from "In Exile" from Modern Library edition (1959) of "The Short Stories of Anton Chekhov".

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