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Here is the sentence Alexey was looking for:
"And Prince Myshkin, in turn, had for his grandson the character recently
created by the contemporary Soviet writer Mikhail Zoshchenko, the type of
cheerful imbecile, muddling through a police-state totalitarian world,
imbecility being the last refuge in that kind of world."
Andrea
(I think one comma in there may be a typo, but this quote faithfully
reproduces the text.)
2010/9/29 Alexey Sklyarenko <skylark05@mail.ru>
> On second thought, one sentence of the original English text will do. In
> translation that sentence (closing the paragraph) goes:
>
> У князя Мышкина, в свою очередь, есть внук, недавно созданный современным
> советским писателем Михаилом Зощенко, - тип бодрого дебила, живущего на
> задворках полицейского тоталитарного государства, где слабоумие стало
> последним прибежищем человека.
>
> Thanks,
> Alexey Sklyarenko
>
"And Prince Myshkin, in turn, had for his grandson the character recently
created by the contemporary Soviet writer Mikhail Zoshchenko, the type of
cheerful imbecile, muddling through a police-state totalitarian world,
imbecility being the last refuge in that kind of world."
Andrea
(I think one comma in there may be a typo, but this quote faithfully
reproduces the text.)
2010/9/29 Alexey Sklyarenko <skylark05@mail.ru>
> On second thought, one sentence of the original English text will do. In
> translation that sentence (closing the paragraph) goes:
>
> У князя Мышкина, в свою очередь, есть внук, недавно созданный современным
> советским писателем Михаилом Зощенко, - тип бодрого дебила, живущего на
> задворках полицейского тоталитарного государства, где слабоумие стало
> последним прибежищем человека.
>
> Thanks,
> Alexey Sklyarenko
>