Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Presumably
"Has a household serf of yours absconded, then?"
"A household serf of mine? As though even a household serf would perpetrate such a crime as the present one! No, indeed! It is my nose that has absconded from me."
"Gospodin Nossov, Gospoding Nosov? Indeed a strange name, that! Then has this Gospodin Nossov robbed you of some money?"
"I said nose, not Nossov. You are making a mistake. There has disappeared, goodness knows wither, my nose, my own actual nose. Presumably it is trying to make a fool of me."
"The Nose"
Nikolay Gogol
¶ 8:17 PM 
"A household serf of mine? As though even a household serf would perpetrate such a crime as the present one! No, indeed! It is my nose that has absconded from me."
"Gospodin Nossov, Gospoding Nosov? Indeed a strange name, that! Then has this Gospodin Nossov robbed you of some money?"
"I said nose, not Nossov. You are making a mistake. There has disappeared, goodness knows wither, my nose, my own actual nose. Presumably it is trying to make a fool of me."
"The Nose"
Nikolay Gogol
