Trafika Europe 6 - Arabesque

Sergei Lebedev OBLIVION (novel excerpt) In August came the unremitting thudding— straw was placed under the trees, but the apples were too heavy, too ripe, and the straw did not soften the blow completely; apples fell, during the day the sound was muffled, but at night it seemed that a chronometer was beating in the garden, that a different time was beginning, the time of ripeness.

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