A half-vast interpretation, cut short by lack of imagination

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nose_(Gogol)

and back by popular demand,
a man of uncertain origin, a
renowned clown and interpreter of Gogol.

A nose is a nose, as everyone knows,
and as a rose, smells regardless of the nomenklatura.
But this nose was not just any schnozz but rather
the most prominent feature of the Moscow Chief of Police.

Flung to the floor in a drunken sneeze,
Commander Nose seized both opportunity and raincoat
and stepped into the middle of the dark and stormy.

 

He left behind a man once renowned for his cunning.

Author's Note

In A History of Russian Literature, the critic D.S. Mirsky writes: "The Nose is a piece of sheer play, almost sheer nonsense. In it more than anywhere else Gogol displays his extraordinary magic power of making great comic art out of nothing."


making great comic art out of nothing. that's just what i wanna do when i grow up.