The difference between men and women is that the older women get, the more passionate they become about women's affairs. Conversely, the older men get, the more they withdraw from men's affairs.
——Chekhov"s "Notes"
The wind howled fiercely through the city, the blizzard like a spread of white carpet, covering the entire small town.
The world outside the window had been swallowed by the cold wind and snow, the air was biting, and snowflakes danced in the wind, as if freezing all life.
The streets left only traces almost submerged by ice and snow, occasionally a few footsteps could be heard, but they quickly disappeared into the endless expanse of white.
Though it was still noon, the blizzard weather darkened the sky so much that even the distant lights were hidden by the thick curtain of snow, plunging the whole world into a silent stillness.
