ROBERT EDLER VON MUSIL
Austrian novelist (1880 - 1942)
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A little station on the stretch leading towards Russia.
Infinitely straight, four parallel iron tracks ran in both
directions, between the yellow gravel of the wide track.
Alongside each, like a dirty shadow, was the dark line burned
into the ground by the exhaust.
- The Confusions of Young Toerless
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