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Litterateur redefining world December 2020
- Feruza Anvarovna," I said while entering. -
Can I ask you something?
At that time she was sorting stacks of
papers on her desk.
- Of course, Humayun.
- How many days will you read a book with
three hundred and eighty-six pages? When I got home, I stood in the hallway,
Feruza Anvarovna thought a little.
leaning against the wall without going
inside. This had an ulterior purpose: if
- It depends on what kind of book it is. If I
am interested in it, I will finish reading it in Nafeesa had seen me from her window,
she would probably have come to change
seven days. If not, I will not read it even in a the book. I stood like this for twenty
month.
minutes. But there was no knocking on
the door. When I was disappointed, I put
A little bit later I addressed to one of my my hand in my pants pocket and took out
clients with the same question.
a pack of cigarettes. The box was almost
empty. Fortunately, there was the last
- If I try, probably, to read it within two cigarette left. It helped me to distract a
weeks," he said after thinking. little: I went to the bookshelf and took
On the way home, the cab driver also asked some books from there. One had two
the same question.
hundred and fifty-four pages, the other
one had one hundred and eighty three,
- Honestly, I'm not interested in reading and the third one had one hundred and
books," he said, sneaking around through twenty-four pages. I left this third one
my rearview mirror.
and put the rest back on the shelf. Having
flipped through the book from beginning
to end, I decided to recommend it to
Nafeesa next time...
...Wandering around the room soon tired
my legs. I leaned on the back of the chair.
The pain in my head began to fade after
taking a pill. But my heart was still
pounding like crazy. Having put my head
on the edge of the chair, I closed my eyes
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