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Russian Folk-Verse Epigraph
folk-verse epigraph
also: На земле весь род людской
A scrap of Russian folk-verse on the common lot of humankind, used as the story's first epigraph and paired with a line from Gounod's Faust to frame the domestic comedy to follow as a small variation on the theme of gold's power over the soul.
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- The Poison §1 On earth the whole human race... etc.
The story's first epigraph is a scrap of Russian folk-verse on the common lot of humankind, set against the second epigraph from Gounod's Faust -- together they frame the domestic action to come as a small, comic variation on the theme of gold's power over the human soul.
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