GR translation: next night

[Michael Bailey]

What makes you think it might be anything other than the very next time
it’s dark after that morning?



On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 2:55 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V353.26-32, P358.35-41   There is a crisis over which kind of g to use in
> the word “stenography.” There is a lot of emotional attachment to the word
> around here. Tchitcherine one morning finds all the pencils in his
> conference room have mysteriously vanished. In revenge, he and Radnichny
> sneak in Blobadjian’s conference room next night with hacksaws, files and
> torches, and reform the alphabet on his typewriter. It is some fun in the
> morning.
>
> Which night does "next night" refer to exactly? Is it the night immediately
> following the day Tchitcherine found the pencils missing, or the day after?
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