Russian Beauts

[mikhail lipyanskiy]

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

i must say that i agree with the author of that ...well sometimes :)

thanks...you should see some of my favs!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Kalbouss" <kalbouss at MAC.COM>
To: <SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2007 12:03 PM
Subject: [SEELANGS] Russian Beauts


> 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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