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Near its end, this story considers a man with a giant mouth who can eat only potatoes, in order to show “How strangely our fate plays with us!” A man in this story relaxes by reading the newspaper The Northern Bee after a run-in with two alcoholic craftsmen, (-5[1])whom the narrator distinguishes from German authors who share their names. This story ends by warning, (10[1])“the devil himself lights the lamps in (10[1])order to show everything (10[1])in an unreal light.” (-5[1])In this story from Arabesques, a brunette (-5[1])resembling Perugino’s Bianca is found to work at a brothel, shocking (10[1])an (10[2])idealistic painter into (10[1])insomnia (10[1])and (-5[1])opium addiction before he slits his throat. This story’s parallel plotlines follow Piskarev and Lieutenant Pirogov as they pursue beautiful women down (10[1])the (10[1])title (10[1])location. (10[5])For 10 points, (10[1])name this Nikolai Gogol story titled for a St. Petersburg (10[1])street. ■END■ (10[2])

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