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Vladimir Nabokov. A BUSY MAN
t invite him to the eve ning party—they hardly knew each other after all—but he did ask the landlady, for Grafs nature oddly united absentmindedness and calcu lation. In the late afternoon he went out, bought vodka, meat patties, smoked herring, black bread.... On his way home, as he was cross ing the street, with the unruly provisions in his unsteady embrace, In-noticed Mr. Engel illumined by the yellow sun, watching him from the balcony.
Around eight o'clock, at the very moment that Graf, after nicely laying the table, leaned out of the window, the following happened: at the corner of the street, where a small group of men had collected in front of the pub, loud angry cries rang ou