A tender hate story.
Love always gets the credit.
Makes the world go round.
But this story delightfully deals with hate.
Hate can be just as powerful as love.
Just as intoxicating.
And once you fall in hate -- it might take a long time to come out of it.
Maybe you stay in hate forever.
So beware by your actions that you don't provoke someone to hate you.
They may become fond of the feeling and may never want to give it up.
Coincidentally after reading Zinotchka I read an article about the artist Lucius Freud who died Wednesday night. He hadn't spoken to his brother Clement for over fifty years and supposedly the hatred begun with a childhood racing contest.
Chekhov is always timely.
Thank you very much for your commentaries. They help me understand or appreciate Chekhov's stories better.
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