Platonov question: Vy tut tol'ko sluzhite, khodite, a ya chusvtvuyu

[Robert Chandler]

Dear all,

Thanks to everyone who sent in their thoughts about this line of Platonov.
And please forgive various confusions in my previous messages.  Sometimes I
get fixated on one difficult word and lose sight of the others.   In any
case, I think we may now be there, or at least a lot closer than we were:

‘But can you do everything the way I do?’ asked Fyodorov.

 ‘The way you do?’ said one elderly junior pointsman.  ‘Not likely.  We’ll
do things better.’

 ‘That’s as maybe,’ Fyodorov said gloomily.  ‘You carry out tasks.  I work
by feeling.’

The last line of the original is
- Я там погляжу, - сумрачно сказал Федоров.  – Вы тут только служите,
ходите, а я чувствую.

Best Wishes,

R.

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