place
the Red Sea
Red Sea
also: Красное море
Invoked by Pavel Ivanych as a byword for oppressive heat -- he boasts that his healthy lungs could endure hell itself, "not to mention the Red Sea," as he distinguishes his stomach-cough from the soldiers' consumption.
Reading notes
- Gusev §78 not to mention the Red Sea
Pavel Ivanych's boast that his healthy lungs could withstand hell itself, let alone the Red Sea's heat, is delivered from his sickbed as his condition visibly worsens (his nose "seems to have grown sharper," loc 72); he is dead within a handful of sections.