Trafika Europe 13 - Russian Ballet

Judeophile

all together, but just like this, book by book... I need the money to live. The apartment has to be cleaned, I have to eat. They even found a woman for me, to take care of the house, a Jewish woman, not too bad looking, not that old yet….” Once, we were walking past Durov’s Animal Circus towards thepark, places familiar tomesinceadolescence, the weather was nice: cool and sunny, the last of the leaves were floating down, and the picturesque mud on the footpaths involuntarily brought to mind an artist’s palette. “Lately, my eyesight has started to deteriorate,” said Pyotr Naumovich. “I sometimes cross the Garden Ring, and the flux of cars merges into a colorful blur, like the falling of leaves….” “Do you ever think about death?” I felt chagrined. He immediately noticed it and said: “No, I’m not asking because of my age; I thought about death in my youth a great deal more. Though I feared it a lot less…. Tell me, do you have plans to leave?”” he suddenly asked me with his usual directness of a Roman. I feigned that I didn’t understand him, what this was leading to, and started pretending ignorance: “Where?”

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