Platonov - 'The Magic Ring' - the barn door

[Elena Ostrovskaya]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Olga Meerson <meersono at georgetown.edu>wrote:

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> The only thing/ All it makes sense to do is// unless [you want me] to/ go
> there and close the door tightly
>
> Neshto itself means something like "unless"
>
>

Well, yes, 'unless' does seem to do the trick. I would agree with the
explanation and choose the 'unless' variant out of the three Olga suggests.

Elena Ostrovskaya

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