Complex sentence: While conducting tedious research for his dissertation, Seth would divert himself with trips to the Stanford Bookstore: On one such occasion, I found in the poetry section, two translations of "Eugene Onegin", Alexander Pushkin's great novel in verse.
Split into simpler sentences: While conducting tedious research for his dissertation, Seth would divert himself with trips to the Stanford Bookstore. On one such occasion, I found in the poetry section, two translations of "Eugene Onegin", Alexander Pushkin's great novel in verse.