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yes it is funny, but it's not slapstick.

Интересная мысль. :D

I looked up the story, it's even funnier than that. A high-rank bureaucrat and a theatre manager are discussing Russian actresses, chicks basically. Мердяев (the name comes from мерзость or...

It means something like
He returned to the prose of life from the poetry of dreams at that very captivating moment