>>>"Sobachje serdce"? ":)
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>>Wow... it's been years since I read that... and I can't remember a thing except the book's cover. I remember "Maestro and Margarita" much more vividly, probably because of the movie (Yugoslav made, at that).
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>>But this has triggered a nice memory - of "Journey of dilettantes" (Bulat O[unspellable]). That sounded like a lyrical version of something Dostoyevsky might have written had he ever had such a long streak of lyrical moods.
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>What a bum. Couldn't write a lick.

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.... [two minutes pass]

Damn English. I thouhgt "damn, bummer, I couldn't write a lick"... then later I understood that you meant "he couldn't". Declensions and conjugations and word forms weren't such a bad idea, though, too bad the majority of Britons disagreed...