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Further, of course, I don't have the full Cyrillic-font glory on this keyboard (without some messing about)
I'm reminded of the typewriter "with a Turkish accent" (the letter e is missing on its keyboard and has to be substituted with ?, the "reversed epsilon" absent from the keyboard of Stan's computer) that Balaganov buys for the Chernomorsk office of "Antlers and Hooves" in Ilf and Petrov's "The Golden Calf".
Btw., a typewriter also plays a role in "The Luzhin Defense". The letter that Luzhin composes with its help is signed Abbat Buzoni (Abbé Busoni is one of names assumed by Edmond Dantes in A. Dumas pere's "The Count of Monte Cristo", the novel that Luzhin's French governess reads to him when he is a child).
Alexey Sklyarenko
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I'm reminded of the typewriter "with a Turkish accent" (the letter e is missing on its keyboard and has to be substituted with ?, the "reversed epsilon" absent from the keyboard of Stan's computer) that Balaganov buys for the Chernomorsk office of "Antlers and Hooves" in Ilf and Petrov's "The Golden Calf".
Btw., a typewriter also plays a role in "The Luzhin Defense". The letter that Luzhin composes with its help is signed Abbat Buzoni (Abbé Busoni is one of names assumed by Edmond Dantes in A. Dumas pere's "The Count of Monte Cristo", the novel that Luzhin's French governess reads to him when he is a child).
Alexey Sklyarenko
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