My father remembers next to nothing. With slight exceptions.Do you remember fixing transmitters for the Home Army?Of course I remember. Were you afraid?I don’t remember. Was Mother afraid? I don’t…
Why hadn’t he thought of it before?He turns to Jo, to the waiter handing outbuttered rolls, glasses of wine, caviar:everyone must go! He realizes chairsshould remain in disarray, windows open,gleaming…
Time passed, turning everything to ice.Under the ice, the future stirred.If you fell into it, you died. It was a timeof waiting, of suspended action. I lived in the present,…
The old man, in his day, well let’s just sayHe took a lot of meat without a license.That he was arrogant, well that just goesWithout saying, so we don’t, but…