3759. What Ivan overheard had a profound effect on him and I
will be so bold as to state that just a few sentences, overheard in passing,
created a bridge that brought him from one existence into another state of
being.
3760. Before I tell you what those sentences were, I want to
justify the above statement by saying that it is indeed possible for words
overheard by accident to change a person’s life, but certain prerequisites need
to be present. The principal requirement is that the person whose life is to be
changed, must be one in whom there is a great desire for change. It must be a
person who is on the edge of a precipice and ready either to plunge off or be
saved. Such was the state of mind on Ivan.
3761. He was looking for a reason to reject everything he
had ever learned. He wanted to reject his father, and his grandfather, and all
his family’s grand traditions. He longed to heap scorn on all revered and
respected works of art, and find some way to cast them all into a trash heap in
his mind.
3762. But in Ivan’s mind there was no such set of ideas to
accomplish such a revolution, but the words he heard in passing that morning
were like a manifesto uttered by a worker in an factory worker’s meeting; a few
simple words that suddenly light the flame of the dream of a world revolution.
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