Status Updates From Heart of a Dog

What is going on in Moscow is inconceivable to the mind of man. Seven traders from the Sukharevka Market have already been arrested for spreading rumours about the end of the world to be brought upon us by the Bolsheviks.

And what is freedom? Smoke, mirage, fiction ... the raving of those unhappy-democrats...

From somewhere above and to the side came the sound of choral singing, softened by ceilings and carpets.

I shan't even try to understand what it's all about — I won't understand anyway.

...All who claim that another can with thy loveliness compare..."

Oh, no, you don't! No. There's a uniformed porter at the door. And there's nothing worse than that in the whole world. Many times more dangerous than a janitor. An altogether loathsome breed. More repulsive even than cats.

There's one typist, for instance, gets a category 9 salary of 45 roubles and if you must know her lover gives her Persian thread stockings. But what she has to put up with for those stockings! He doesn't do it the normal way but subjects her to French-style lovemaking.

Soooo freaking good but makes me want to go home to my Honey doggy 😢

Philip Philipovich worries himself to death