![]() What is it? What does it mean? Is it some kind of code? According to Tolstaya, who wrote the book, it is a strange, mysterious creature that grew out of the nuclear explosion that has, in a sense, created the world that she describes. I thought about the title for a long time. And when Vladimir is not pleased someone gets it. Vladimir, the great and powerful, would not to be pleased. ![]() You don’t want to miss anything, to let anything through that ought not to get through. First, you have to read the book several times. They’ll give me the Order of Lenin one day, no doubt. Well, that means I’m doing my job properly. No one ever dropped a clever metaphor on a village of women and children, they say. They focus too much on bombs and guns, and forget all about the clever metaphor. ![]() Most people don’t realise how dangerous literature is. When they gave me the job they said that I would be serving my country by preventing the spread or dissemination of dangerous materials. Give me War & Peace and I’ll hand you back a pamphlet. All for Vladimir, the great and powerful, and The Good Russian People. ![]() Only I don’t work with meat, I work with words. ![]()
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