Vladimir Nabokov. El círculo
Vladimir Nabokov. THE CIRCLE
After that there followed several other chance encounters and finally—all right, here we go. Ready? On a hot day in mid-June— On a hot day in mid-June the mowers went swinging along on both sides of the path leading to the manor, and each mower's shin stuck in alternate rhythm now to the right shoulder blade, now to the left. "May God assist you!" said Ilya Ilyich in a passerby's traditional salute to men at work. He wore his best hat, a panama, and carried a bouquet of mauve bog orchids. Innokentiy walked alongside in si lence, his mouth in circular motion (he was cracking sunflow