Chlen -- sorry, amendment

[Kim Braithwaite]

I too posted a reply earlier which, like Paul's, never made it to the common 
screen. In it I suggested that perhaps the passage ought to be interpreted 
literally - although I did muse whether, in the context of conjectural 
double-entendre, aktivist might carry a similar, chlen-like charge. But then 
my feel for Russian slang, puns and double-entendre is rudimentary at best.

Once the hilarity over chlen etc has run its course, maybe someone could 
look in the back of the book and find what the passage really means. I 
hazarded a guess that zazhimka might refer to an act of either miserliness 
or reneging (or a person so characterized), cf certain definitions of 
zazhat'/zazhimat'. Maybe just a glitch?

As for M Dmytrieva's contribution, one word: Sublime!

Mr Kim Braithwaite, Translator
       "Good is better than Evil, because it's nicer" - Mammy Yokum (Al 
Capp)

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> You'll want to Google "joke," followed by "his member"
> in quotes. Otherwise you turn up the baffling Amazon
> entry "A Heart Like His Member," etc., ad infinitum.
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