二人組の最後の冒険

• 28: The Last Adventures of Koroviev and Behemoth

サドヴァヤ通りの火事の15分後、チェック野郎と猫顔のデブは外貨ショップに出現。大混乱に陥った豪華な店も炎上。
その1分後、作家協会の本部グリボエードフにて。「温室のパイナップルのように保護された才能ある作家たちが世に出す作品が期待されるな〜」
'But!...Only if these tender hothouse plants are not attacked by some micro-organism that gnaws at their roots so that they rot! And it does happen with pineapples! Oh, my,does ti!'
入館を見咎められて「身分証は？」
'To covince yourself that Dostoevesky was a writer, do you have to ask for his identification card? Just take any five pages from any one of his novels and you'll be convinced, without any idenfification card, that you're dealing with a writer. And I don't think he even had any identification card!'
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'A writer is defined not by any identity card, but by what he writed. How do you know what plots are swarming in my head?'
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