Damn it all, don't you know what nothing means ?...

That sub-lieutenant, to be sure, and somebody else and some one else here...
and Shatov perhaps and some one else too--well, that's the lot of them...

a wretched lot....

But I've come to intercede for Shatov.

He must be saved, for this poem is his, his own composition, and it was through him it was published abroad; that I know for a fact, but of the manifestoes I really know nothing." "If the poem is his work, no doubt the manifestoes are too.