The Terrible News Quotes

“The station master lay facing the west. In the steppe the setting sun doesn’t blind you. It tums cherry-red and sinks quickly. You can look straight at it as it dips into the green land. The sun goes down fast. It touches the ground. The ground is slicing it. Slice after slice. Only a half of the sun remains in the sky, then a quarter, then the ground swallows the sun completely, licking the edge of the sky with a red tongue. The day is finished. It’s night.
"The Station Master" (translated by Grigori Gerenstein)”
― Mikhail Slonimsky, The Terrible News: Russian Stories From The Years Following The Revolution