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 | : I took the liberty of reading it first. it has been many years since I have read these stories. I hope you don’t mind | |
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| apart from that. He spent most of his adult life outside his homeland. Like me |
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| I feel a special kinship with gogol, more than with any other writer | |
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| do you know what Dostoyevsky once said? | |
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| (nods) we all came out of gogol’s overcoat. What’s that supposed to mean? | |
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