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Part Of Speech

…and when "the future" is uttered, swarms of micerush out of the Russian language and gnaw a pieceof ripened memory which is twice as hole-ridden as real cheese.

After all these years it hardly matters whoor what stands in the corner, hidden by heavy drapes,and your mind resounds not with a seraphic "doh",only their rustle.

Life, that no one daresto appraise, like that gift horse's mouth,bares its teeth in a grin at eachencounter.

What gets left of a man amountsto a part.

To his spoken part.

To a part of speech.

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Joseph Brodsky

Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (/ˈbrɒdski/; Russian: Ио́сиф Алекса́ндрович Бро́дский [ɪˈosʲɪf ɐlʲɪˈksandrəvʲɪtɕ ˈbrotskʲɪj] (About this soundliste…

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