"On the present occasion noontide was sultry, and not a cloud was in the sky. Indeed, the sun seemed to be standing still to scorch the grass, and the air to have ceased to circulate--to be hanging without the slightest movement. Neither from tree nor lake could the faintest rustle be heard, and over the village and the countryside there hung an unbroken stillness, as though everything in them were dead. Only from afar could a human voice be distinguished, while, some twenty sazhens away, the drone of a flying beetle, with the snoring of some one who had sunk into the thick herbage to enjoy a refreshing sleep, came gently to the ear. Even the house was possessed by a silence as of death, for the hour of post-prandial slumber had arrived."
Ivan Goncharov
"Oblomov"
"Полдень знойный; на небе ни облачка. Солнце стоит неподвижно над головой и жжет траву. Воздух перестал струиться и висит без движения. Ни дерево, ни вода не шелохнутся; над деревней и полем лежит невозмутимая тишина — все как будто вымерло. Звонко и далеко раздается человеческий голос в пустоте. В двадцати саженях слышно, как пролетит и прожужжит жук, да в густой траве кто-то все храпит, как будто кто-нибудь завалился туда и спит сладким сном.
И в доме воцарилась мертвая тишина. Наступил час всеобщего послеобеденного сна.
Иван Гончаров
"Обломов"
credits
from Immensity,
released February 11, 2021
Max Ananyev - Guitar
Ilya Atamanov - Russian seven-string guitar
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