The alley, from The Blind Owl: ink-and-wash drawing

Kind: Place
Persian: کوچه
First appears: P094.L14
Lines: 5
GNML id: plc_alley

In the scenes

Scene 30: A room like a tomb; two windows on RayP094.L01–P096.L02
Scene 69: Ring of fire; poisoned wine for twoP190.L01–P194.L04
Scene 77: The old man vanishes into the mist with the jarP210.L01–P211.L13

Where the text names it

بوی اطاق پسری که تازه تکلیف شده، بوی بخارهایی که از کوچه آمده، و بوهای مرده یا درحال نزع

of the room of a boy newly come of religious age, of vapors entering from the alley, and smells that are dead or in their death throes,

P095.L02

یکی از آنها رو به حیاط خودمان باز می‌شود و دیگری رو به کوچه است؛

one of them opens toward our own courtyard and the other toward the alley;

P191.L02

از صدای یک دسته گزمه مست بیدار شدم که از توی کوچه می‌گذشتند، فحشهای هرزه به هم می‌دادند و دسته‌جمعی می‌خواندند:

I woke to the sound of a band of drunken watchmen passing through the alley, exchanging obscene curses and singing together:

P211.L07

من برگشتم پنجره روبه‌کوچه اطاقم را باز کردم؛

I returned and opened the window of my room facing the alley;

P211.L08

هیکل خمیده پیرمرد را در کوچه دیدم که شانه‌هایش از شدت خنده می‌لرزید و آن دستمال بسته را زیر بغلش گرفته بود،

I saw the old man’s bent figure in the alley, his shoulders trembling from the force of his laughter, holding that wrapped handkerchief beneath his arm,

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The alleyکوچه

In the scenes

Where the text names it