From blues and metal to ballads and progressive rock, Bob has done it all with the biggest names in the music business. As an in-demand session player, his talents have taken him all over the world. But it wasn’t always that way. Everyone starts out somewhere, and for Bob Daisley that was Sydney, Australia.
The story ends where it began, with the narrator pacing the room next to her corpse. He oscillates between self-justification and agonizing clarity, finally realizing that his pride and silence destroyed the only person he ever loved.
The narrator, a former military officer turned cynical pawnbroker, recalls his first meeting with a young, impoverished girl who came to his shop to pawn her last belongings. Attracted by her "meekness" and desperate situation, he proposes marriage. He views himself as a savior, but his motivations are rooted in a desire for power and a need to be worshiped by someone he perceives as morally superior but socially inferior. La Sumisa Fiodor Dostoyevski epub
Provides free English versions of Dostoevsky's Short Stories (look for "A Gentle Creature" or "The Meek One"). The story ends where it began, with the
