Lisa of Troy

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The heat in the street was terrible: and the airlessness, the bustle and the plaster, scaffolding, bricks, and dust all about him, and that special Petersburg stench, so familiar to all who are unable to get out of town in summer—all worked painfully upon the young man’s already overwrought nerves.
Lisa of Troy
What an interesting sentence structure!
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J
Nice em dash
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Milica DIY
Yeah, there's something undeniably Russian about it, but also individual. What lovely prose.
Kristi Krumnow
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Kristi Krumnow
The punctuation has to be from the translator. I dont read or speak russian. BUT I can smell the heavy stink, see the disruptive scaffolding paralleling the beautiful of St. Petersburg. The youth cont…
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