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Page 16
I began positively to hate the smooth liberal intellectuals who seemed to me to
get more and more stupid through their dislike of the simple people over whom
they had so recently been in ecstacies. Not that I was ready to accept the October
...
I began positively to hate the smooth liberal intellectuals who seemed to me to
get more and more stupid through their dislike of the simple people over whom
they had so recently been in ecstacies. Not that I was ready to accept the October
...
Page 17
I longed to re-read War and Peace — it seemed an impossible dream! The novel
itself seemed to me to have been written a couple of centuries ago. Mama and
my sister Galya were living in the Polesye6 near the little town of Chernobyl.
There ...
I longed to re-read War and Peace — it seemed an impossible dream! The novel
itself seemed to me to have been written a couple of centuries ago. Mama and
my sister Galya were living in the Polesye6 near the little town of Chernobyl.
There ...
Page 123
It was always the greedy ones who seemed to come my way. Every woman I
knew — greedy for love or greedy for money. Mostly waitresses or kitchen-maids,
young ones . . . Well. . . . This schoolgirl took the boat and came to supper in the ...
It was always the greedy ones who seemed to come my way. Every woman I
knew — greedy for love or greedy for money. Mostly waitresses or kitchen-maids,
young ones . . . Well. . . . This schoolgirl took the boat and came to supper in the ...
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Contents
Whirlpool page | 7 |
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Cafe | 36 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Story of a Life: In that dawn Volume 3 of The Story of a Life, Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Author | Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Publisher | Pantheon Books, 1967 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Apr 2008 |
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