Karapet Of Tiflis, Fifth Movement

Fifth Movement

“As soon as the exclamation

of the barber-surgeon reached

my reflecting apparatus,

there began to swarm in it

various thoughts

which ultimately led,

in my view,

to the correct understanding

of just why there proceeded in me

the aforesaid instinctive uneasiness.

“The first moment after I had understood this

there even arose a feeling of being offended…