KHARMS, Daniil. The old woman. In: ______. Today I wrote nothing: the selected writings of Daniil Kharms. [trad. Matvei Yankelevich]. New York: Ardis Plublishers, 2009. p. 90.

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      Now I'm sleepy, but I will not sleep. I will take paper and pen and I will write. I sense an awful strength within me. I thought everything over yesterday already. It will be a story about a miracle worker who lives in our time and does not work miracles. He knows he is a miracle worker and could create any sort of miracle, but he does not do it. He is evicted from his apartment - he knows that were he to just wave a finger the apartment would stay his, but he does not do it; he timidly vacates his apartment and lives outside of town in a shed. He can turn this old shed into a wonderful brick house, but he does not do it; he continues to live in the shed and in the end he dies, not having worked a single miracle in all his life.
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