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Frossia's husband had the ability to feel the voltage of an electric current like a personal emotion. He animated everything that his hands or mind touched, so he really understood the flow of forces in any piece of mechanism and could actually feel the painful, patient resistance of the metal body of a machine.

Andrei Platonov

Andrei Platonov

Andrei Platonov

Born: August 28, 1899

Died: January 5, 1951 (aged 51)

Bio: Andrei Platonov was the pen name of Andrei Platonovich Klimentov, a Soviet Russian writer, playwright, and poet, whose works anticipate existentialism.

Known for:

The Foundation Pit
Chevengur
Happy Moscow
The Fierce and Beautiful World
The Return and Other Stories

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