“It’s impossible to learn the way the poet Pafnutyev knew how to get at it. The surprising thing is that he was intrusive, but he wasn’t nasty. Maybe I’m cruelly mistaken and in fact everything was completely different, but let neither hand nor foot be raised against this harmless creature, not only by the participants in the literary process and the process of learning to participate in this process, but also by the most frostbitten and evil gopnik...”