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Contents of my phone is like “bullshit” “bullshit” “bullshit” “bullshit”

“Violet shadows reached from the garden into the study. Trees peered into the room, looking as if they wanted to strew the floor with their branches covered with heavy hoarfrost, which resembled lilac streams of congealed stearine.

Nikolai Nikolaevich was looking into the lane and remem-”

(The part that wasn’t bullshit was Boris Pasternak’s “Dr. Zhivago” translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky on my e-reader)

Stearine is a powdered, crystalline form of fat, like beef tallow or palm oil. It looks like wet, sticky snow in a drift or clump.