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Stanislaw Lem, "Odds", The New Yorker 54 (11 December 1978) 38-54 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Mdivani in his youth been better looked after by his father, he would have studied his languages instead of chasing after the chambermaids, would not have needed a translator, and would not have taken the father of Kouska to the waters. |
 | | Mdivani's father was not disposed to keep an eye on the progress of his son's education when the latter was supposed to be studying languages, because this son, by his looks, reminded him of a certain dignitary of the church, concerning whom Mr. |
 | | Mdivani was born in the year 1861, his mother in 1832, and the Gypsy grandmother in 1798. |
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