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The cemetery by the roadقبرستان کنار جاده

Cemetery where the narrator, lost after the burial, sits on a gravestone and the scarf-wrapped gravedigger gives him the jar.

The cemetery by the road, from The Blind Owl: ink-and-wash drawing
Kind
Place
Persian
قبرستان کنار جاده
Also called
قبرسون، اینجا
First appears
P069.L05
Lines
3
GNML id
plc_roadside_cemetery

In the scenes

Where the text names it

P069.L05

رفتم در قبرستان کنار جاده روی سنگ قبری نشستم، سرم را میان دو دستم گرفتم و به‌حال خودم حیران بودم.

I went into the cemetery beside the road and sat on a gravestone, took my head between my two hands, and was bewildered at my own state.

P070.L02

لابد با خودت میگی «این وقت شب من تو قبرسون چه‌کار دارم؟» اما نترس، سر و کار من با مرده‌هاس، شغلم گورکنیس، بد کاری نیس هان؟

You must be saying to yourself, “What am I doing in a cemetery at this hour of night?” But do not be afraid; my dealings are with the dead, my occupation is grave digging; it is not a bad job, eh?

P070.L03

من تمام راه و چاه‌های اینجا رو بلدم.

I know all the ways and pitfalls here.

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