Platonov - 'The Magic Ring' - the barn door

[Hugh McLean]

Dear Robert,

I would fault only the "It would be better" in your proposed solution.  
would prefer something like "I might as well" (or is than an Americanism?).

Hugh
> Dear all,
>
> In this skazka, the hero, Semyon, has just (with the help of his magic ring)
> had their empty barn filled with flour.  He wakes up, sees his mother
> chewing on dry crusts and tells her, to her astonishment, that she should be
> baking pies:
>
> - Чего же ты, мать, теста не поставила и не охаживаешь его? Поставила бы
> тесто и пирогов бы напекла.
> - Очнись, сынок! У нас второе лето муки и горсти нету.
> - А ты наведайся, мама, в амбар - гляди, и найдешь.
> - Да там и мыши с голоду подохли! Чего глядеть в пустое место? Нешто дверь
> пойти наглухо припереть.
> Пошла мать к амбару, тронула дверь, а дверь распахнулась, и мать Семена
> головой в муку так и упала.
>
> I'm not quite sure about “Neshto dver’ poiti naglukho priperet’”.  Could it
> mean something like ‘It would be better to block the door up once and for
> all’?
>
> Vsego dobrogo,
>
> Robert
>
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