place
Black Sea
also: Черное море
The major sea bordering southern Russia and Ukraine, here comically imagined buried under Odessa's dust.
Reading notes
- The Duel §119 Black Sea
The sea on whose shore the story's Caucasian resort town sits, and whose fauna von Koren has come to study.
- Goose Talk §9 the Black Sea
The sea bordering southern Russia and Ukraine; invoked here as the halfway marker on the geese's migration route, underscoring how far they still have to fly.