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Page 136
I have described this incident in detail only because it was so in keeping with the
whole tenor of life under the Directorate . Everything seemed equally mean and
pointless , like a badlyproduced but occasionally tragic farce . One day , the ...
I have described this incident in detail only because it was so in keeping with the
whole tenor of life under the Directorate . Everything seemed equally mean and
pointless , like a badlyproduced but occasionally tragic farce . One day , the ...
Page 177
I had heard people — even crowds — screaming in terror , but never a whole city
. It was unbearably shocking because it cancelled out the usual , presumably
naïve , assumption of an indestructible common bond of humanity present in us
all .
I had heard people — even crowds — screaming in terror , but never a whole city
. It was unbearably shocking because it cancelled out the usual , presumably
naïve , assumption of an indestructible common bond of humanity present in us
all .
Page 202
In Odessa , the idea took hold of me of spending my whole life travelling , so that
whether it was long or short I should experience it as perpetually new , and of
putting all my strength into writing many books about it , and of giving them -
giving ...
In Odessa , the idea took hold of me of spending my whole life travelling , so that
whether it was long or short I should experience it as perpetually new , and of
putting all my strength into writing many books about it , and of giving them -
giving ...
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Contents
Whirlpool page | 7 |
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Café | 47 |
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| 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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