#plyushkin

[p1yushkin]

Acherontia atropos

[pharaohgargamel]

Stepan Plyushkin from "Dead Souls"

A stingy landowner with pathological hoarding syndrome. Gogol's character.

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"Степан Плюшкин из "Мертвые души"

Скупой помещик с синдромом патологического накопительства. Персонаж Гоголя.

[p1yushkin]

[p1yushkin]

🪾 In the woods, keep your eyes open — you never know when a gun will be to your head

[never-a-president]

Plyushkin was never president of the United States.

[littlepotato]

convergence:

in short, it was all just right, as neither nature nor art can contrive, but as only occurs when they join together, when, after the heaped-up, often senseless, labors of men, nature makes a finishing pass with her chisel, lightening the heavy masses, removing the crude-feeling regularity and indigent gaps through which the bare, undisguised plan peeps out, and imparts a wondrous warmth to all that was created in coldly measured cleanness and neatness. 

nikolai gogol describing plyushkin's dilapidated house in dead souls.  

(as translated by pevear and volokhonsky)

[sara-pop-blog-blog]

Tutto questo si accumulava nelle dispense e diventava marciume e ciarpame ed egli stesso infine parve diventare una specie di ciarpame di umanità. Plyushkin e le Anime Morte di Gogol, illustrazione per il Disagio, mi mancano i progetti deliranti... i metodi digitali spengono il cervello