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1880s progress catchwords
progress catchwords
Electricity, telegraphs, and telephones were the era's headline emblems of modern progress in Russia; a character's garbled parroting of them signals ignorance.
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- A Proud Man §17 electricity
Electricity, telegraphs, and telephones were the era's headline emblems of modern progress in Russia (the telephone reached Russian cities only in the early 1880s); the best man's garbled parroting of these words -- "finophones" for telephones -- signals his own ignorance even as he lectures about ignorance.
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