'BBBB DDDD' by Vitaly Bezpalov at Lestnica Gallery, Krasnodar

“I’m dying!” You remember what happens when I die. We saw this because this good news brought us joy. We saw this at the very beginning: what a scandal, I am dying! Our intelligent soul comes down to the soul of the sensuous or the animal, but it abides. It abides. And all these wonderful creases and folds... And the soul will again be dispersed when God calls her to the Last Judgment. You remember this very bizarre idea [lol] that B. had: the souls that were meant to be intelligent were not like that from the beginning of the world—in fact, it can be perceived as idiocy. Here I am, my sensible soul, and yours too: It was necessary to wait for it to be born in order of time, in sequence, on the first floor. It took God to call us, that is, to unbend our own parts so that we could begin to express the world. But before that we existed—however, in what capacity? As a sensual living soul, like the soul of a worm. And yet: what has distinguished us from the worm? In that era, it was impossible to know. D. said: it looks as if God has embodied in some sensual souls the action by which they were destined to reach the reason, etc. When we die, we will again become the sensual soul that forms part of the second matter. Now we have to make one small effort... :B ;D