Trafika Europe 13 - Russian Ballet

Naum Vaiman

miracle did mother intercept him. She says she had some sort of a premonition. She entered his study for no particular reason, and there it was – some sort of a banner. You know what he had written on it? “Hands off Israel!” She giggled. “Can you imagine how it would have all ended, for him and for us?! What a scandal it would have been; a horror.… And then he got sick.…” We stood there in silence. “So you really donated his archive to the Academy?” I asked. A garbage truck came trundling by. Lena’s eyes followed it with a distracted expression on her face and with an exhausted voice she pronounced: “What Academy are you talking about? Mom simply threw everything the hell out.”

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