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Page 43
And the sunsets faded as meekly , and the stars shivered apprehensively at night
, as though realising that people — even poets and astronomers — had quite
other things to think about . Everyone was at the mercy of his private mental storm
.
And the sunsets faded as meekly , and the stars shivered apprehensively at night
, as though realising that people — even poets and astronomers — had quite
other things to think about . Everyone was at the mercy of his private mental storm
.
Page 55
So inevitably boring were they that , to liven things up , a young sub - editor once
inserted the words ' At long last before the usual ' Death has deprived us ' . Next
morning there was a storm in the office . The sub - editor was sacked . We all felt
...
So inevitably boring were they that , to liven things up , a young sub - editor once
inserted the words ' At long last before the usual ' Death has deprived us ' . Next
morning there was a storm in the office . The sub - editor was sacked . We all felt
...
Page 81
Besides , the life of a house is bound up with that of many things as old as itself ,
which have come from far away and seen much in their time . Unfortunately , their
story will never be told : they can ' t speak and people , having short memories ...
Besides , the life of a house is bound up with that of many things as old as itself ,
which have come from far away and seen much in their time . Unfortunately , their
story will never be told : they can ' t speak and people , having short memories ...
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Contents
Whirlpool page | 7 |
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Café | 47 |
Copyright | |
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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., 1965 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Jul 2007 |
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