Narrator

Printing, a “somewhat antiquated process” that for centuries “has reigned despotically over the mind of man,” would be replaced by “phonography,” and libraries would be turned into “phonographotecks.” We would see a return of “the art of utterance,” as narrators took the place of writers. “The ladies,” Uzanne concluded, “will no longer say in speaking of a successful author, ‘What a charming writer!’ All shuddering with emotion, they will sigh, ‘Ah, how this “Teller’s” voice thrills you, charms you, moves

faithful (6) here is reached a limit of mine: I cannot find a way to trasncribe the pun made by the author exploiting the fact that rigorously same words are used in French to say "it's not a typical place" and "it's not trite" (7) from this line, the narrator directly addresses himself to God (8 ) I think at that point in the song it's obviously clear that the author talks about over-chauvinist people, not natives in an "ethnical" meaning; I just couldn't find another translation because once again, "gens

the things, and so on and so forth—it's all nonsense, sir. One can count off a hundred such things. I also accidentally learned in detail then about the scene in the police office—also by accident, sir—and not just in passing, but from a special narrator, a capital one, who, without realizing it, handled the scene remarkably. One thing leads to another, one thing leads to another, my dear Rodion Romanych! So, how could I not turn in a certain direction? A hundred rabbits will never make a horse,