Boring conversations about nothing
Our hero, the landowner NN, was a strange and unsociable man. He had no friends, no one cared about him, he did not invite anyone, although people were still in his house.
Once I decided to visit a hermit-eccentric and drove to him along the way. My friend, the landowner, lived in a country estate in complete idleness, and he complained that he did not find sympathy in anyone. I settled in his large hall, where there was no furniture, except for the spacious sofa on which I slept. Here, always, even in quiet weather, something was buzzing in the stoves, and during the thunder the whole house was shaking. The landlord was wearing a pendant, drinking beer in the evenings and talking to almost no one, even with me. Sometimes, however, he was attacked by another extreme: he began to talk without stopping.
About what only he did not try to start a conversation! Weather inspired him for long discussions about the benefits of rain and drought, about different climatic zones, that
He spoke languidly and bored, stretching out his words. Nothing, in my opinion, can overtake such despondency as the speech of a man who himself is clearly not aware of what and for what he is talking about.
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