Vladimir Nabokov. El círculo
Vladimir Nabokov. THE CIRCLE
The Leshino topic was falling apart; Tanya, getting it all wrong, insisted that he used to teach her the pre-Revolution songs of radical students, such as the one about "the despot who feasts in his rich pal ace hall while destiny's hand has already begun to trace the dread words on the wall." "In other words, our first stengnzeta" (Soviet wall gazette), remarked Kutaysov, a great wit. Tanya's brother was mentioned: he lived in Berlin, and the Countess started to talk about him. Suddenly Innokentiy grasped a wonderful fact