Trafika Europe 13 - Russian Ballet

A LIGHT IN THE NIGHT (novel excerpt) By Svyatoslav Loginov Translated from the Russian by Max Hrabrov

Don’t despair, dear friend: The chain of oblivion has no end, Your link is not the beginning. For you also forget, forget, forget – As if lowering your net Towards a murky sea bottom. - Vadim Shefner

PROLOGUE

One step and then another… and so you walk along, as if on a nice stroll, and the cane is there more as a matter of form, like the walking stick of a London dandy. And another step… and the pain in my side is hardly there at all, just a small, flighty bother. A nice, warm evening in early September. My favorite time of the year. People are walking the streets, and I am walking about as well, not walking away from anything at all. I am just taking a walk, see, one step 257