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Old 08-03-2008, 11:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Anguille View Post
Matryona's Home is a great short story.

I think it's kind of amusing though, that he bitched and complained about the USSR, emigrated to the US and then bitched and complained about the US.

RIP, cranky old man,
I always think of something he said about America. I have to paraphrase.

He said that our big cities with their gleaming skyscrapers seem to imply that nothing bad can happen here. But bad things can happen here.

When 9/11 happened, I thought of him saying that.
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