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[serialcondition.livejournal.com]

how do you say "going to the opera" = в оперу?

what's the verbal adverb from писáть (Russian version of Ukrainian пишучи)

thank you
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[oryx_and_crake]

Thank you for your contribution. Please note that the working language of this community is English. As to the problem in question, there is a proverb: Quod licet Jovi non licet bovi. Which means that what Brodsky can afford the mere mortals probably cannot.

[ex-alicia-e-612.livejournal.com]

ok, sorry

[ex-alicia-e-612.livejournal.com]

The fact is that I am referring to those cases where Brodsky uses this word form not in his poems, but in his lectures, and thus he appears not as Jupiter but as a usual person.