Tales of the Wilderness by Boris Pilniak
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Monday--municipal children's asylums (free) Tuesdays, Friday, Saturday--males Wednesday, Thursday--females Price for washing adults--50kop.gold children--25kop.gold DISDEPOPINSTRUCT [Footnote: That is "District Department for popular instruction"--in "Russian," _Uotnarobraz_.] Times: Lent of the eighth year of the World War and of the downfall of European Civilisation (see Spengler)--and sixth Lent since the great Russian Revolution; in other words: March, Spring, breaking-up of the ice--when the Russian Empire exploded in the great revolution the way Rupert's drops explode, casting off--Estia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Monarchy, Chernov, Martov, the Dardanelles--- Russian Civilisation,--Russian blizzards--- --and when--- --Europe-- was: --nothing but one Ersatz from end to end-- (Ersatz--a German word --means the adverb "instead.") |
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