Category: Venedikt Erofeev

I like the fact that my compatriots have such vacant and protruding eyes. They fill me with virtuous pride. You can imagine what eyes are like (in the capitalist world). …such eyes look at you with distrust, reflecting constant worry and torment. That’s what they’re like in the land of ready cash.How different from the eyes of my people! Their steady stare is completely devoid of all tension. They harbor no thought – but what power! What spiritual power! Such eyes would not sell you. They couldn’t sell anything or buy anything. You could spit in the eyes, and they’d call it God’s (divine) dew…