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“So, Papa, are you feeling good now that you’re in my hands?”

“No,” Papa said, “I’m feeling bad.”

Then Semyon asked him, “And my brother Fyodor, when you were hacking him to pieces, did he feel good in your hands?”

“No,” Papa said, “Fyodor was feeling bad.”

Then Semyon asked him, “And did you think, Papa, that someday you might be feeling bad?”

“No,” Papa said, “I didn’t think I might be feeling bad.”

—Isaac Babel, “The Church in Novgorod”