ČARLS SIMIĆ - iz knjige proznih pesama "SVET SE NE ZAVRŠAVA" (Narodna knjiga,1990) - CHARLES SIMIĆ, The World Doesn't End

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Are Russian cannibals worse than the English? Of course. The English eat only the feet, the Russians the soul. “The soul is a mirage,” I told Anna Alexandrovna, but she went on eating mine anyway. 

"Like a superb confit of duck, or like a sparkling littleneck clam still in its native brine?" I inquired. But she just rubbed her belly and smiled at me from across the table.

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Da li su ruski ljudožderi gori od engleskih? Naravno. Engleski jedu samo noge, ruski dušu. "Duša je varka", rekoh Ani Aleksandrovnoj, ali ona ipak nastavi da jede moju.

"Kao veličanstveni zalogaj zaslađene patke, ili kao penušava školjka u prirodnom soku?" Raspitivao sam se. Ali ona samo protrlja svoj trbuh i nasmeši mi se preko stola.