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Erna Semyonovna is a woman who works in the typing pool at the publishing house. Sofia Petrovna dislikes her because she makes so many mistakes, but Erna Semyonovna has a security clearance, which means that she’s the only person allowed to type up sensitive information about the Communist Party. When an anonymous article in the newspaper attacks Sofia for speaking up for Natasha after she was fired, Sofia is certain the nameless author is Erna.
Erna Semyonovna Quotes in Sofia Petrovna
The Sofia Petrovna quotes below are all either spoken by Erna Semyonovna or refer to Erna Semyonovna . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1
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Sofia Petrovna would open the door and the assistant manager would drag Erna Semyonovna’s typewriter out of the typing pool into the restricted special department. Erna Semyonovna would follow her typewriter with a triumphant expression: as they’d explained to Sofia Petrovna, she had a “security clearance” and the party secretary summoned her to the special department to type up secret party documents.
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Erna Semyonovna Quotes in Sofia Petrovna
The Sofia Petrovna quotes below are all either spoken by Erna Semyonovna or refer to Erna Semyonovna . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 1
Quotes
Sofia Petrovna would open the door and the assistant manager would drag Erna Semyonovna’s typewriter out of the typing pool into the restricted special department. Erna Semyonovna would follow her typewriter with a triumphant expression: as they’d explained to Sofia Petrovna, she had a “security clearance” and the party secretary summoned her to the special department to type up secret party documents.
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