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Pilniak, Boris, 1894-1937

"Tales of the Wilderness"

.. a
gramophone, a musical instrument, and records...."
Throwing back his shoulders, Kononov-Ivan stood by the window--then
stooped, looked askance at the sunset, at the fields, at the musical
instrument. He reflected a moment, then muttered absently:
"Aint wanted.... Go to Poriechie...." and the shutter dropped.
A sombre sky in autumnal lights--and the crossways.... Two wheel-
tracks, ripple-grass, a foot-path. Sometimes the wanderer tired, that
path seemed interminable, without beginning or ending. He turned
aside, went astray, returned on his tracks--evermore to the thickets,
forests, marshes....


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