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date: 2023-10-16 16:07:44.58 +00
title: "Mastodon post from October 16, 2023, 111245555436697335"
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[http://www.online-literature.com/anton_chekhov/1289/](http://www.online-literature.com/anton_chekhov/1289/) Anton Chekhov on next-door-posting, every-day-carry types of 1898, “The Man in the Case” ( [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_Case](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_Case))

Fun. I'm reading some light socialist realism, "Stalingrad”, by Vasily Grossman, and this story came up in reference with a footnote so I tracked it down.


![Photograph of the Belikov Monument next to the Chekhov Gymnasium in Taganrog, from Wikipedia](./111245555058531307.jpeg)


what finally makes the man start to crack is seeing a woman on a bicycle, war never changes