Prostitution Divine. Short stories, movie script and essay
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Михаил Армалинский. Prostitution Divine. Short stories, movie script and essay
The Deal[1][2]
Hero[3]
Muscular Death
Nothing In The Mail[4]
Attempt To Part
Inexpensive Pleasures
The Tale Of A Dream
Because of hunger
Everywhere
Passionate Friendship
At The Exam Table With Stirrups
Prostitution Divine
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It was a town in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by endless fields of undistinguished grain. My only reason for going there was to conduct a business deal with a man who had the distinction of owning nearly the entire town. His name was Rail, a veritable lord of the manor who counted among his possessions two banks, impressive acres of land, and several large warehouses of nonferrous metals.
Though I had known this man more than a year, we had never met face to face; all our business had taken place over the phone or through the mail. Our last phone conversation had degenerated into an argument over his refusal to accept an order of high quality aluminum cast at my factory. This considerable order had just been loaded for shipping when Rail phoned with the news that it wouldn’t pay him to accept such a large amount of metal at that time. When I insisted that he accept his merchandise, he refused, I lost my temper, and threatened to drive the load to his home and dump the entire shipment on his doorstep.
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“I’ll come by after work then, all right?”
“If you want. But I already have one here.”
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