And Foma kept on rocking and said: "There are times when I feel guilty before men.

Everybody lives, makes noise, while I am frightened, staggered--as if I did not feel the earth under me.

Was it, perhaps, my mother that endowed me with apathy?
My godfather says that she was as cold as ice--that she was forever yearning towards something.

I am also yearning.

Toward men I am yearning.