Suspicion Breeds Confidence

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"He was ten. His father had lingered in the West where the many-colored
mountains acted upon Van as they had on all young Russians of genius. He
could solve an Euler-type problem or learn by heart Pushkin's "Headless
Horseman" poem in less than twenty minutes." (ADA, p. 171)

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In darkly verdant garden-quarters
Her isles have vanished without trace;
Old Moscow's paled before this other
Metropolis; it's just the same
As when a widowed Empress-Mother
Bows to a young Tsaritsa's claim.
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