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Her only escape was in films and books. She read as though her life depended on it.
“Его всегда поражала деятельность ребятни на детской площадке. В ней не было смысла, делать среди деревянных домиков, горок и наклоненной временем шведской стенки было нечего, но дети находили, чем заняться, — и потому казались компанией сумасшедших, видящих то, чего нет, или кататонически застопоренных каким-либо занятием, вроде сосредоточенного копания снега лопаткой, бе́га по кругу и однообразных пинков в веранду. Когда выяснилось, что Игорь забирает сына пораньше, все дети замолчали и стали смотреть на них с сыном, как зомби, прервавшие свои разброд и шатание в ответ на подозрительный звук человеческого кашля.”
― Отдел
― Отдел
“One morning, on my way to a lecture on Balzac, it came to me with great clarity that there was no way that that guy, the professor, was going to tell me anything useful. No doubt he knew many useful things, but he wasn’t going to say them; rather, he was going to tell us again that Balzac’s Paris was extremely comprehensive. I went instead to the undergraduate library, to the basement where government documents were stored.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“Afterward I lay on my side with A Critique of Postcolonial Reason propped half-open on the pillow beside me. Occasionally I lifted a finger to turn the page and allowed the heavy and confusing syntax to drift down through my eyes and into my brain like fluid. I'm bettering myself, I thought. I'm going to become so smart that no one will understand me.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“Lighting a match felt exciting and a little bit dangerous, and when the flame came into contact with the paper, it made a sound like the needle coming down on a record player—like the music was about to start.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“At some point in our conversation, Ivan mentioned that strawberries grew on trees. I said I thought they grew on little plants close to the ground. No, he said—trees.
“Okay,” I said. I knew that in my life I had seen strawberries growing, on plants, but this didn’t seem like irrefutable proof that they didn’t grow on trees.
“You’re easy to convince,” he said.
We walked for three hours. On the way back we got lost and had to climb down a steep hill. I really didn’t want to climb down the hill. I actually walked into a tree and then stayed there for a minute.
“What are you doing?” Ivan asked.
“I don’t know,” I said.
He nodded. He said there were lots of possible ways down the hill, but probably the best way was one where you didn’t have to go through a tree. Then he started talking about the execution of Ceauşescu and his wife.”
― The Idiot
“Okay,” I said. I knew that in my life I had seen strawberries growing, on plants, but this didn’t seem like irrefutable proof that they didn’t grow on trees.
“You’re easy to convince,” he said.
We walked for three hours. On the way back we got lost and had to climb down a steep hill. I really didn’t want to climb down the hill. I actually walked into a tree and then stayed there for a minute.
“What are you doing?” Ivan asked.
“I don’t know,” I said.
He nodded. He said there were lots of possible ways down the hill, but probably the best way was one where you didn’t have to go through a tree. Then he started talking about the execution of Ceauşescu and his wife.”
― The Idiot
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