God I love Russian writing!
The opening paragraph of Mikhail Bulgakov's The White GuardGreat and terrible was the year of Our Lord 1918, of the Revolution the second. Its summer abundant with warmth and sun, its winter with snow, highest in its heaven stood two stars: the shepherds' star, eventide Venus; and Mars -- quivering, red
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