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21 Cards in this Set
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Why was Samurai a sensitive person? |
The attitude of the two blond women when Samurai and Andrei Makine were bathing in the summer had not been lost on him. |
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By how much was Samurai older than Andrei Makine? |
2 |
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Why Utkin never came with Andrei Makine and Samurai? |
Utkin washed at baths closer to his izba. He was afraid of freezing his leg. |
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With water from the Brook, what did Andrei Makine & Samurai fill? |
A great stove that heated an enormous cast-iron vessel. |
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What was the property of little mezzanine? |
There was a kind of little mezzanine, made from two wooden planks on which you took turns stretching out while your companion whipped you with a bunch of one birch twigs dipped in the bubbling water. |
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Where were the baths located? |
The baths were located not a the bottom of a kitchen garden but some distance from the village, on the riverbank where the Brook flowed into the Olyei. |
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How was Sunday headquarters of Samurai & Andrei Makine established? |
The bathhouse seemed to be preparing, through the alchemy of its vapours, for the astonishing transmutation of our bodies. . . . |
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How did the feet of Samurai & Andrei Makine get extremely cold? |
The snow spurted up under the feet of Samurai & Andrei Makine with a dry, sonorous whispering. |
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Describe the dark room. |
Little by little the icy interior of the dark room was coming back to life. Its somber walls, made of logs, became warm. Above the bowl a fine cloud of steam arose. |
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What happened when it was Andrei Makine's turn? |
Andrei Makine stretched out on the narrow planks of the mezzanine, and Samurai begins to whip hime with fury. |
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With satanic relish, what does Samurai continue to do? |
With satanic relish, Samurai continues to riddle Andrei Makine's back with smarting stabs. Nor does he forget to empty a ladle over the burning pebbles from time to time. |
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Why did Andrei Makine feel that he no longer had a body? |
Andrei Makine's body had once been he experienced a blissful absence, a delicious void made up of misty shadow, of the slightly piquant aroma of birch leaves macerated in boiling water. |
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What did Samurai's great body reveal? |
Samurai's great body revealed to Andrei Makine how naked flesh could be beautiful. |
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What were Andrei Makine and Samurai doing at the same time? |
It was Andrei Makine's arms that rose and fell, flagellating Samurai's muscular back as he groaned with pleasure. |
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What happened when the steam was so burning hot? |
Heads of Samurai and Andrei Makine buzzed, and red bubbles swelled and burst into their eyes. |
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Before Samurai and Andrei Makine flung themselves backward into the virgin snow, where did they head to? |
At the base of the slope that led down toward the Olyei. |
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What did the dark sky draw Andrei Makine and Samurai into? |
The dark sky drawed Andrei Makine and Samurai into its abyss, crammed with constellations. |
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Once the wisps of steam that had been rising above us vanished, what happened to Samurai and Andre Makine? |
Samurai and Andrei Makine began to feel their skin being burned by the melted snow, their shoulders and their wet hair tugged at by the crust of ice already forming. . . . |
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What did Samurai polish a little bathtub with? |
Sand from the river. The bathtub was made of copper. |
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How did the scents please Samurai and Andrei Makine? |
The scents was so delicious to inhale the warm, dry breath of the stones and then, turning one's head slightly, to ingest the scent of a bunch of birch twigs left in the bowl. |
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After the frenzy of hell, what happened to the room? |
The room, filled with a soft, warm half-light, would become a strange paradise for Samurai and Andrei Makine as night approached. |
