Wolves and Sheep

[Eric Naiman]

For what it is worth, in The Gift Nabokov translates "i volki syty, i ovtsy
tsely" as "Peter's been paid without robbing Paul" (172 of Vintage
edition).  Of course, since the point of the passage is the bezdarnost' of
journalists who rely on these proverbs, Nabokov is emphasizing that anyone
who uses this expression is likely to be enmeshing himself in a lose-lose
situation.

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