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She was not there the next day or the day after. "Tomorrow,"
I decided, "I'll disregard her wish and go into the women's barracks."
The next morning, after roll call, the lame kitchen helper,
Vitaly, came up to me. "You know," she said, "last night I buried
nine people, and one of them was your girl. Oh, she was so thin." I
didn't answer . I turned away.
Long hard years went by . Somehow I survived. Often, very
often, I see in my dreams strawberries ... the floor of the damp,
dirty corridor of the guardhouse . . . and her big, sad eyes.
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• New directions in modern thought edited by Daniel Bell
• Fiction by Michel Tournier
• John Elderfield on contemporary art and modern memory
• Mark Shechner on Wilhelm Reich
• Ronald Hayman:
New Light on Brecht
• Diana Pinto on Raymond Aron
• Andrei Siniavski:
The Joke Inside the Joke
• Cornelius Castoriadis on the defense of Europe
• Octavio Paz on Central America
• Frank Kermode on the decline of the man of letters
