Russian Beauts

[George Kalbouss]

	Over the past 41 years, I have been saving well-intentioned phrases 
and sentences
written by undergraduates that simply went awry.  What with the more 
serious linguistics,
cultural, pedagogical and literary issues discussed in SEELANGS, I 
thought people
might enjoy these:

	The Siberians settled in inaccessible places.

	Two-demential icons are more realistic

	He hates the Poles from stealing the steps from them.

	When death comes to him he will have lost the desire to answer 
unanswerable questions
	and pursue unattainable goals.

	In "The Death of Ivan Ilych" he took a common occurrence and dragged 
it on for 40 pages.

	One daughter died a nebulous death while living at home.

	Sonia convincingly fights pressure throughout the novel to fall apart 
at the seams.

	Illness is another tradition for Russian Orthodoxy.

	Gogol is overworded and could ramble on about one item and not provide 
relevant
	data to the story like VCR instructions.

	She was raised by a jealous and everbearing widowed mother.

And my favorite, from Crime and Punishment:

	Overcome by guilt,  Svidrigailov checked himself into a motel and blew 
his brains out.


George Kalbouss

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