By and
large, I immediately realized back then that either I had developed a split
personality, or a real adventure had begun. All that remained was to decide
which it actually was, because my future actions depended on this decision. If
it was a split personality... I don't like running to doctors, and I'm
absolutely terrified of psychiatrists, even though I've never crossed paths
with one—so I settled on the adventure. Though the thought did occasionally pop
into my head: "Now this is a glitch!" "Thus thought the young rake, flying in the dust
on post-horses..." I try to reconstruct in my memory what happened
back then, what took place. I remember that I recalled Pushkin on that shore,
and his line from Eugene Onegin .
Something about it alarmed me that time... no, just caught my attention... ah,
yes—the young rake ! I mean, the man is
still young, but he already has a rake .
A tragedy! Though most likely it's purely psychological, so he could skip th…