Eldar Əfəndiyev: "The Black Cat": The Black Cat 1/2 … And then came, as if to my final and irrevocable overthrow, the spirit of PERVERSENESS. Which I am sure is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart — one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself commiting a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgement, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such? It was this unfathomable longing of the soul to vex itself — to offer violence to its own nature — to do wrong for the wrong’s sake only — that urged me to continue and consummate the injury I had inflicted upon the unoffending brute…

The Black Cat

1/2 … And then came, as if to my final and irrevocable overthrow, the spirit of PERVERSENESS. Which I am sure is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart — one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself commiting a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgement, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such? It was this unfathomable longing of the soul to vex itself — to offer violence to its own nature — to do wrong for the wrong’s sake only — that urged me to continue and consummate the injury I had inflicted upon the unoffending brute…

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