the gray book:
At U LA, if you didn't know the name of a book, you couldn't get it
brought
down...not knowing what was up there, i could not ask for it...the library
under reconstruction and elevators not working, i was confined to the
first
floor for a year....
[Louis] Girdler asked the librarian specifically for a book with "The
Queen
of Spades" in it and she described it....but he's such a silly goose, as
he
didn't require her to find a book written in russian...my bad back made it
impossible to climb the many stairs to the fourth or fifth
floor...impossible... but what's important is that the ONLY Russian
Pushkin
they had up there with the requisite short story the Queen of Spades--had
a
RED cover. I described, as you know, a gray cover. Furthermore, the red
cover was a hardback, not floppy.
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