Circles
Stations
Stations noun - (Roman Catholic Church) a devotion consisting of fourteen prayers said before a series of fourteen pictures or carvings representing successive incidents during Jesus' passage from Pilate's house to his crucifixion at Calvary.
Both words in one sentence
- The preface to Moscow to the End of the LineAKA Moscow-Petushki, Moscow Stations or Moscow Circles says that in the first draft one chapter contained too many cuss words (appropriate for a philosophical drunk on a long boring train journey that has just started).
Source: Un Installment -
Thus translators tried to be creative: Moscow to the End of the Line (technically wrong, few trains go east of Petushki, but the end is Vladimir), Moscow Stations, Moscow Circles (technically wrong too, the protagonist goes in radial direction and doesn't use any of circular routes).
Source: Literature / Moscow - Petushki
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