By Beauty Damned

The Nose Knows No Bounds

This story just made me laugh so much that I had to share it. I mean what could be more bizarre than a giant marble statue of a nose (inspired by Nikolai Gogol's story of a man's pursuit for his runaway nose), being stolen and subequently pursued by the police until recovered in a residential area in Russia?

"Life imitated art when the marble sculpture, erected in Russia's second city eight years ago to honor the tale, went walk-about last September from the house where the story's hero is supposed to have lived.
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"Gogol's odd story, called 'The Nose,' tells how a Major Kovalyov goes on a frantic search through the Czarist capital in search of his nose, which takes on a life of its own and gets up to all kinds of trouble while running round the city.
Kovalyov finally tracks down his mischievous missing nose, in the nick of time as it is planning a move to Latvia."

My little mind can barely imagine the insanity of a person who would write a story about a nose which takes on a life of its own, literally, nor contain the irony of the above mentioned incident.