He spent an hour and a half working on his article , but it did not march very well . The emptiness and the silence began to get on his nerves , and at last he stacked his yellow legal pads and the offprints he had ordered from Johns Hopkins on the shelf above his typewriter , put on his parka , and crossed the road .
Он работал над своей статьей полтора часа, но она шла не очень хорошо. Пустота и тишина начали действовать ему на нервы, и, наконец, он сложил свои желтые блокноты и распечатки, заказанные в Джонсе Хопкинсе, на полку над пишущей машинкой, надел парку и перешел дорогу.