“Obviously, it was a very funny scene: two people were sitting in a tiny dugout of the battalion OP, two steps away from the Germans (that night Lyoshka was on duty not at the command post, as usual, but at the observation post), smoking shag and talking about matadors , banderilleros, speedwells and reballers, about which one knew nothing, and the other, although he also knew a little more, had read something...”