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Page 83
Occasionally, in the middle of the night, a spring would hit me in the side with a
vengeful ping. I liked working at the office, rather than in my sleepy, musty
lodgings where a tap dripped in the bathroom and the landlady was always
shuffling ...
Occasionally, in the middle of the night, a spring would hit me in the side with a
vengeful ping. I liked working at the office, rather than in my sleepy, musty
lodgings where a tap dripped in the bathroom and the landlady was always
shuffling ...
Page 175
i6 Cries in the Night It must have been that late hour of night when everything is
clogged and deadened by darkness and silence. Even the water in the rusty
pipes stopped dripping from the kitchen tap after midnight. It was the kind of night
that ...
i6 Cries in the Night It must have been that late hour of night when everything is
clogged and deadened by darkness and silence. Even the water in the rusty
pipes stopped dripping from the kitchen tap after midnight. It was the kind of night
that ...
Page 213
If perfect happiness exists, we experienced it that night. I wanted to prolong this
feeling. Putting on my coat and picking up a blanket, I went out into the loggia —
a deep bay with a projecting balcony on the first floor. The loggia was dark.
If perfect happiness exists, we experienced it that night. I wanted to prolong this
feeling. Putting on my coat and picking up a blanket, I went out into the loggia —
a deep bay with a projecting balcony on the first floor. The loggia was dark.
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Contents
Whirlpool page | 7 |
Blue Torches | 23 |
3 The Journalists Cafe | 36 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Story of a Life: In that dawn Volume 3 of Story of a Life, Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Author | Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Publisher | Harvill P., 1967 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Jul 2007 |
| Subjects | › Biography & Autobiography / Literary Literary Criticism / Russian & Former Soviet Union |
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