Into the Thickening Fog Quotes

“All this colossal hoarfrost, which could be compared in intensity only with tropical vegetation, was an alternative, nonbiological life-form.”
― Andrey Gelasimov, Into the Thickening Fog

“Unable to stop, he moved his physical body from street to street, from sidewalk to sidewalk, but the part of him that had been him before, the part he’d once referred to as “I,” remained immobilized, lost somewhere in the dusty, lifeless city, and Filippov had absolutely no intention of looking for it.”
― Andrey Gelasimov, Into the Thickening Fog

“The country was in approximately the same condition as Filya—falling to pieces. The thought of this gave him pleasure. He felt he wasn’t alone.”
― Andrey Gelasimov, Into the Thickening Fog

“A Frenchman contemplating a menu simply demanded being captured in bronze.”
― Andrey Gelasimov, Into the Thickening Fog

“Sometimes it even seemed to him that this “idiot’s tale” had captivated the ordinary person to a significantly greater degree than the circumstances of his or her actual life. Practically everyone Filippov knew liked to talk about what in no way affected them personally. It was as if they’d erected a fortress wall around themselves—a Great Wall of China of inexhaustible nonsense. They’d barricaded themselves in the inner courtyard of their paltry and, as it doubtless seemed to them, insignificant lives. While leaving this clumsy but inevitable self-humiliation on their conscience, Filippov nonetheless pitied those ordinary people. He”
― Andrey Gelasimov, Into the Thickening Fog

“Filippov got the feeling that for exactly a second the entire millennial tundra, with its deer, nomad camps, lichen, midges, lost geologists, and hard frosts, was looking at him through her narrow eyes. Judging by her reaction, Filippov had not conquered the tundra. His”
― Andrey Gelasimov, Into the Thickening Fog

“He hadn’t been able to establish trusting relations with his body or his hometown. The”
― Andrei Gelasimov, Into the Thickening Fog