(The Soviet revisionist ambassador Chervonenko requested to see the Chairman. The Chairman said he was unwell. Due to repeated requests, the Chairman received him in his pajamas.)

Chervonenko: I heard you are going to publish an article. It is unnecessary, and I feel very heavy-hearted.

Chairman: Unnecessary? Then why have you published so many articles? There is nothing heavy-hearted about it. It is merely mutual polemics, nothing more than a battle of lips and tongues, of verbal arrows.

Chervonenko: Could you please go to Moscow to have a talk? Would that be possible?

Chairman: I am already old and useless. Old but not yet dead, a worn-out overshoe—I can no longer make the trip.