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   Hi, Gleb Hlebov!   
   I read your message from 15.01.2025 12:25   
      
      
    AK>> In Russian folklore we have a beast with three heads. In England   
    AK>> there are probably ones which have head and three bodies:   
      
    GH> "... which have one head and..."   
      
    AK>> The day has been so full of fret and care, and our hearts have   
    AK>> been so full of evil and of bitter thoughts, and the world has   
    AK>> seemed so hard and wrong to us. Then Night, like some great loving   
    AK>> mother, gently lays her hand upon our fevered head, and turns our   
    AK>> little tear-stained faces up to hers, and smiles; and, though she   
    AK>> does not speak, we know what she would say, and lay our hot   
    AK>> flushed cheek against her bosom, and the pain is gone. [...]   
      
    GH> This short passage feels quite like a piece of poetry, you may   
    GH> think of it this way. However, there seems to be a certain logic to   
    GH> that: only one head at a time that she'd lay her hand on, hence a   
    GH> singular "our head".   
      
    GH> The same with "our cheek", too, probably.   
      
    GH> As with turning "our little tear-stained faces up to hers", it is   
    GH> an immediate action that can be performed simultaneously by all of   
    GH> the partakers, no matter how many or few. Well, assuming it's not a   
    GH> single-head-multi-face type of monster.   
      
      
   The author should had been consistent -- he should had written "and turns our   
   little tear-stained FACE and SMILE up to hers"  ;-) .   
      
      
   Bye, Gleb!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   english_tutor 2025   
      
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