#26

“He undressed immediately after it, and getting under the bedclothes fell fast asleep, fell into a sound sleep, into that wonderful sleep which only happy mortals enjoy who know nothing of haemorrhoids, or fleas, or strongly developed intellectual faculties” (Gogol, 1961: 141).

GOGOL, Nikolai (1961). Dead Souls. Translation by David Magarshack. London: Penguin Books.