Andrey Gelasimov

“Sometimes it even seemed to him that this “idiot’s tale” had captivated the ordinary person to a significantly greater degree than the circumstances of his or her actual life. Practically everyone Filippov knew liked to talk about what in no way affected them personally. It was as if they’d erected a fortress wall around themselves—a Great Wall of China of inexhaustible nonsense. They’d barricaded themselves in the inner courtyard of their paltry and, as it doubtless seemed to them, insignificant lives. While leaving this clumsy but inevitable self-humiliation on their conscience, Filippov nonetheless pitied those ordinary people. He”
― Andrey Gelasimov, Into the Thickening Fog

“All this colossal hoarfrost, which could be compared in intensity only with tropical vegetation, was an alternative, nonbiological life-form.”
― Andrey Gelasimov, Into the Thickening Fog