Quoting Anton Chekov, Joy, 1877

“What is the matter with you?”

“Oh, don’t ask! I never expected it; no, I never expected it! It’s… it’s positively incredible!”

Mitya laughed and sank into an armchair, so overcome by happiness that he could not stand on his legs.

“It’s incredible! You can’t imagine! Look!”

— Anton Chekov, Joy, 1877

Links to this fragment: The Joy of Figures, Sans Faces or Fingers

8:29pm on November 30, 2024 from Vancouver, Canada.


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