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Fictional

Nikolai Gogol: Nose Goes

Fictional

Jason Weiser

Arts, History, Books

4.96K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

What happens when your nose leaves your face...and starts living a better life than you?

Today's episode was adapted from the story "The Nose" by Nikolai Gogol. You can find the full text here.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I've been woke up with a bit of a headache and a greasy sheen from the night before.

0:18.1

What time…

0:19.1

Oh, what time did he come back last night?

0:23.4

He didn't even remember coming back last night.

0:26.8

Yikes.

0:27.8

Oh well, not like a barber needed to be focused with a steady hand.

0:33.0

He lumbered down the stairs and threw on his coat for propriety.

0:36.6

Ungins and bread, he declared, just Ungins and bread for him this morning.

0:41.2

In coffee, he said he could smell the bread baking.

0:44.8

Yep, just salt, Ungins, coffee and bread for me this morning.

0:49.5

He sat down at the table, smiling, as his wife prepared heartburn on the plate.

0:54.7

She said the bread was already done.

0:56.5

Here, the plate rattled as she dropped the loaf on it alongside the Ungins.

1:01.2

I even poured salt over it and started sowing the bread in half.

1:05.5

Is there like fruit in this?

1:07.2

Is it a fruit cake?

1:08.5

I've been called out.

1:10.1

His wife watched him pour the last of his coffee in the mug.

1:13.9

It was bread.

1:15.5

Since he had already finished up the coffee, could she maybe get some of it?

1:19.6

What…

1:20.6

What is it?

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