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 Wysłany: Pon 4:46, 21 Lut 2011 Temat postu: On the Makaloa Mat LondonJack Published bbaabaiu |
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re sober minds
amongst us wonder at themselves nowand can't understand how they
came to be so foolish at the time.
What constituted the turbulence of our time and what transition it was we
were passing through I don't knownor I think does anyoneunless it
were some of those visitors of ours. Yet the most worthless fellows
suddenly gained predominant influencebegan loudly criticising
everything sacredthough till then they had not dared to open their
mouthswhile the leading peoplewho had till then so satisfactorily kept
the upper handbegan listening to them and holding their peacesome
even simpered approval in a most shameless way. People like Lyamshin
and Telyatnikovlike Gogol's Tentyotnikovdrivelling home-bred editions
of Radishtchevwretched little Jews with a mournful but haughty smile
guffawing foreignerspoets of advanced tendencies from the capital
poets who made up with peasant coats and tarred boots for the lack of
tendencies or talentsmajors and colonels who ridiculed the
senselessness of the serviceand who would have been ready for an extra
rouble to unbuckle their swordsand take jobs as railway clerks; generals
who had abandoned their duties to become lawyers; advanced [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
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