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...throw up." The voice, belonging to Erofeev, the author-narrator of Moscow Circles, reeks of cheap vodka and ironic self-revelation. Erofeev, you see, is not merely drunk--he's metaphysically smashed, floating somewhere on the far side of oblivion, in the alcoholic backwater of heightened consciousness. His sodden satirical monologue is a latter-day Notes from Underground (and under the influence)--a profoundly funny novel that ranks as a satirical masterpiece. In his preface, Erofeev explains that "The first edition of Moscow Circles sold out fast, since it came out in only one copy." However, tongue-in-check, this...
Through the dark and cold night, he made his way across the sodden suburban field just outside Washington. The drop was right where it was supposed to be. At the base of a tree, wrapped in a green plastic garbage bag, were eight rolls of undeveloped 35-mm film containing photographs of classified American documents. When he opened the bag, he did not know that the surrounding roads of Montgomery County had been closed or that the FBI was watching. Thus did Lieut. Colonel Yevgeni Barmyantsev, 39, the acting Soviet military attaché in Washington, last week become a prominent...
...Harvard golf team splashed its way over a sodden and shortened Stow Acres Country Club course yesterday, finishing second in a three way match against Amherst and Tufts...
...storm-swollen streams, then marking time in rain, wind and fog. "At times like these," he muses, "one is tempted to long for the days when royalty, both hereditary and elected, were allowed more privacy. It's a subversive thought, but perhaps inescapable when your notebook is as sodden as your socks...
...near, and it is always near, then it is our duty to survive." Merely to survive is not enough; the risky quest to meet the near-legendary American soldiers is an opportunity to infuse a sense of adventure and myth into a cluster of lives grown grey and sodden under years of Fascist rule. So they make their way through the foothills, while the partisans and the straggling black shirted Fascists (looking like an army of scarecrows) wage skirmishes around them...