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From: D. Barton Johnson <chtodel@GTE.net>
Gleaned from Times Literary Supplement while eating lunch...
George Walden reviews Interpreting the Russian Revolution by Orlando
Figes & Boris Kolonitskii (pp56ff):
"The curtain came down on Communism abruptly, as on a grotesquely
incompetent production where the scenery was falling on the actors, and
the auditorium fast emptying."
Here flickers of the end of Invitation to a Beheading began to dance thru
my head. I quickly repressed this glimmer thinking "After all, it's a
fairly common sort of trope."
Three pages later in the same review anent Soviet bureaucratese...
"Nabokov once said the Soviet regime would eventually collapse, because
the Russian language could not bear the torture..."
I don't recall the latter attribution, but it certainly nails down the
earlier "curtain" bit.
Gleaned from Times Literary Supplement while eating lunch...
George Walden reviews Interpreting the Russian Revolution by Orlando
Figes & Boris Kolonitskii (pp56ff):
"The curtain came down on Communism abruptly, as on a grotesquely
incompetent production where the scenery was falling on the actors, and
the auditorium fast emptying."
Here flickers of the end of Invitation to a Beheading began to dance thru
my head. I quickly repressed this glimmer thinking "After all, it's a
fairly common sort of trope."
Three pages later in the same review anent Soviet bureaucratese...
"Nabokov once said the Soviet regime would eventually collapse, because
the Russian language could not bear the torture..."
I don't recall the latter attribution, but it certainly nails down the
earlier "curtain" bit.