TURMOIL

horses.” “By the way, modern science has not fully confirmed the assertion that man originated from monkeys.” “That’s irrelevant, the main thing is that we came from somewhere. According to our legends, we are created from the clay of a bird. Honestly, I would cross out all this and create people from Akhalteke.” “Then… what would we be like?” They both introduced themselves as descendants of horses and laughed with pleasure. “We would get used to it,” said Jasyn with a smile. They began to laugh at the appearance of monkeys. “It all depends on habit. Do you think monkeys, if they are able to think, consider their life worse than ours? Yes, they should only rejoice that they did not become people… But we’ve deviated from the main topic…” He again switched to a strict tone. “I do not like well-fed people. Because the well-fed are always blind and deaf. Because they do not need art, the prospects of tomorrow, any changes in the world, digestion is more important for them. They need an apartment, a position, a personal car, and nothing else. They will go through life without feeling or experiencing anything and will leave life without noticing it. The most annoying thing is that the amount of such people hasn’t decreased. There are those who, in order to rise higher, are ready to trample underfoot even the Koran, even Abai. I don’t like being with people all the time. I’m afraid to meet a thoughtless look, a head full of thoughts about consumption. I tried to look at myself critically, I thought that I did not have the average relationships with people. Unfortunately, I was not mistaken. I do not belong with well-fed people. At first glance, I noticed that you are different from them… This is what I was going to tell you today. You still don’t know how far you stand from the cheap crowd that sleeps and seeks to settle down somewhere warmer…” Bagila listened with special attention to these strange words of Jasyn, in which revelation and despair sounded. Never before in her life had she met a person who would say things the way he did… And all this was not invented this very second, but, apparently, it took shape a long time ago. She remembered how long she had been looking for him from the moment he left the compartment with

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