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The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

CHAPTER IX
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But now it simply terrifies me.

I see in it a danger to men, something contrary to the laws; and I feel a desire to call a policeman, to appeal for defence from some quarter, to demand that this dangerous object be removed.
"And this is not a joke, by any means.

I am convinced, I am sure, that the time will come--and perhaps it is not far distant--when the world will understand this, and will be astonished that a society could exist in which actions as harmful as those which appeal to sensuality by adorning the body as our companions do were allowed.

As well set traps along our public streets, or worse than that.".


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