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Page 36
The writer should be able to change the rhythm , character and colour of the
narrative as he thinks fit . It was of this and of much else that we spoke in the dark
canteen . The winter came , shaggy and full of sleep . The lamps were lit at two o
...
The writer should be able to change the rhythm , character and colour of the
narrative as he thinks fit . It was of this and of much else that we spoke in the dark
canteen . The winter came , shaggy and full of sleep . The lamps were lit at two o
...
Page 121
... concentrating in the USSR the whole stock of high - quality seeds , created by
nature and man in the course of thousands of years . This gigantic task Vavilov
was able to accomplish thanks to his unbridled energy and his great knowledge .
... concentrating in the USSR the whole stock of high - quality seeds , created by
nature and man in the course of thousands of years . This gigantic task Vavilov
was able to accomplish thanks to his unbridled energy and his great knowledge .
Page 164
I was never able to write about people divorced from their circumstances and
physical situations or the geographical coordinates , the landscape or the
simplest natural phenomena . I could not separate man from the varied reality
which ...
I was never able to write about people divorced from their circumstances and
physical situations or the geographical coordinates , the landscape or the
simplest natural phenomena . I could not separate man from the varied reality
which ...
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| Title | Story of a Life, Volume 6 Story of a Life, Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Author | Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Translated by | Manya Harari |
| Publisher | Harvill Press, 1974 |
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