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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
“The ferry back to Budapest was full of reveling women in their fifties. Elbows linked, they danced, stomped, sang, and coughed. In the bar, they banged bottles against the counter. The few men in their party were slumped at the tables, heads buried in their arms. Only two were sitting upright, addressing a salami of durable appearance with a pocketknife.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“There was a poem with that mood by Pasternak: “Don’t sleep, don’t sleep, artist.” It sounded better in Russian, because the word for “artist” had three syllables, it was an amphibrach, like “spaghetti,” or “appendix.” Don’t sleep, don’t sleep, gorilla, I thought as I went down the elevator to the subway platform.”
― 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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