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– Я покоряюсь вам, – призраки, оборотни, пародии.
('I obey you, spectres, werewolves, parodies.' Invitation to a Beheading, chapter 3)
Оборотень (werewolf) has тень (shade) in it.
oboroten' + mot = obormot + ten' + o (oboroten' - werewolf; mot - Fr., word; obormot - blockhead; ten' - shade; shadow)
In the popular epigram on Paolo Trubetskoy's equestarian statue of Alexander III ("Hippopotamus") the tsar is called "obormot":
Стоит комод,
на комоде бегемот,
на бегемоте обормот.
Alexey Sklyarenko
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('I obey you, spectres, werewolves, parodies.' Invitation to a Beheading, chapter 3)
Оборотень (werewolf) has тень (shade) in it.
oboroten' + mot = obormot + ten' + o (oboroten' - werewolf; mot - Fr., word; obormot - blockhead; ten' - shade; shadow)
In the popular epigram on Paolo Trubetskoy's equestarian statue of Alexander III ("Hippopotamus") the tsar is called "obormot":
Стоит комод,
на комоде бегемот,
на бегемоте обормот.
Alexey Sklyarenko
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