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Shar is also present in sharovaya molniya, "ball lightning." In his poem Vysokaya bolezn' ("The Sublime Disease," 1928), Pasternak (the author of "Dr Zhivago") compares Lenin's speach to shorokh moln'i sharovoy (the rustle of a ball lightning). On the other hand, in Pasternak's poem Groza momental'naya navek ("The thunderstorm instantaneous forever"), included in Sestra moya zhizn' (My Sister Life, 1922), there are lines:
Sto slepyashchikh fotografiy
Noch'yu snyal na pamyat' grom
(The thunder took in the night
A hundred blinding photographs in memory [of summer]).
Cf. in Ada: "Nobody was taking pictures except Perun, the unmentionable god of electricity." (1.38)
Alexey Sklyarenko
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Sto slepyashchikh fotografiy
Noch'yu snyal na pamyat' grom
(The thunder took in the night
A hundred blinding photographs in memory [of summer]).
Cf. in Ada: "Nobody was taking pictures except Perun, the unmentionable god of electricity." (1.38)
Alexey Sklyarenko
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