—About the bear.
—Of his first love and how he became a monk—(chastity).
—On the nature of Satan?
—Anikita goes to Chaadaev to exhort him. He calls Tikhon: the latter comes, argues, and then asks to be forgiven.
—On little insects and the universal joy of Living Life, Tikhon’s inspiriting stories.
—His friendship with the boy, who allows himself to torment Tikhon by pranks. (The devil is in him.)
—Tikhon learns of Therese-Philosophe—He blesses him in his downfall and revolt.
—Tikhon’s clear stories about life and happiness on earth. Of his family, father, mother, brothers. Extraordinarily simple and therefore moving stories from Tikhon of his transgressions against his people, of pride, ambition, mockery (I wish I could unmake all this again now, Tikhon says).
This alone is in itself moving, that he has become friends with the boy.
Tikhon’s story of his first love, of children, it is lower to live as a Monk; one must have children, and it is higher when one has a vocation.