All those fat little monsters, those slablike effigies pasted on the facade of the Eglise St. Michel, they were following me down the crooked lanes and around corners.

所有这些肥胖的小怪物，所有粘在圣米歇尔教堂正面墙上石板状的雕像都跟在我身后走过弯弯曲曲的小胡同、拐过街角。

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Jan Swafford's slablike life of Brahms is more discursive than Mr Carr's book but just as readable.

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