Мы вообще люди не романтичные совсем. Ни вот Валентина, ни 8 марта не отмечаем. Серега, правда, желает отмечать 23 февраля, но он в армии служил месяц после шестого курса, так что это не считается, а меня с души воротит от этого праздника
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When the forefinger of twilight begins to smudge the clear-drawn lines of the Big City there is inaugurated an hour devoted to one of the most melancholy sights of urban life.
Out from the towering flat crags and apartment peaks of the cliff dwellers of New York steals an army of beings that were once men, Even yet they go upright upon two limbs and retain human form and speech; but you will observe that they are behind animals in progress. Each of these beings follows a dog, to which he is fastened by an artificial ligament.
These men are all victims to Circe. Not willingly do they become flunkeys to Fido, bell boys to bull terriers, and toddlers after Towzer. Modern Circe, instead of turning them into animals, has kindly left the difference of a six-foot leash between them. Every one of those dogmen has been either cajoled, bribed, or commanded by his own particular Circe to take the dear household pet out for an airing.
By their faces and manner you can tell that the dogmen are bound in a hopeless enchantment. Never will there come even a dog-catcher Ulysses to remove the spell.
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Отрывок прекрасный!
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Сейчас за такой рассказ автора бы четвертовали )
https://americanliterature.com/author/o-henry/short-story/ulysses-and-the-dogman
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