— Listen, look at what they write in these newspapers! What jokes!
— Listen or watch?
— Just listen! “Leonid Utyosov said that everyone would like to be born in Odessa, but not everyone succeeded. Tatyana Solomatina was lucky — she managed to be born in Odessa. And, as another great Odessan once said, Isaak Babel (if you believe the equally not-simple person — Konstantin Paustovsky), in Odessa we’ll have our own Maupassants…”
— So what? Someone was lucky to be born, someone was lucky to become. You were lucky both to be born and to become. You have every right to write about Odessa. Squandering that luck after everything that’s already been luck — that would be not very Odessan.