JOSEPH BRODSKY
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Though I prefer
Dr. Fallstlls.
And
I,
you kn ow,
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Well ,
I
still prefer
Bllr/r/ellbrooks.Joseph allri H;s Brothers,
too.
N-yes.
Bllr/r/ell/nooks
..
N-yes.
See what
I
mean ...
Ech ..
Well , someday they depose
liS,
say, o r vote
liS
Ollt and we'I1 sca tter all over th e
world. We'I1 be writing letters to eac h other . . . W o uldn 't it be ni ce to get a nice
little note from Gustav in LUbeck) Ah , Cec ilia ) Or from ThUringen ?
Ah, but of co urse. Like in the o ld days. I mea n , the nin etee nth ce ntury . Before
all this.
Wouldn 't it, Petrovic h )
Sure thing. Eve n fro 111 iJa va ria .
No. I'd rather write from LUbeck..
!pilllse. 1
iJut if they won't depose us. . if,
to
put it rudely, th ey re e le ct us.
After all , w e introduced democracy .
Petrovi ch . for example, let som e people o ut frolll under th e loc k . And Cecilia ,
too, has permitted H eavy M eta l.
And in a certai n se nse, we've j o in ed the Market.
After all , somebody sho uld say " A" .
Yes, and what's bothering yo u, Gustav)
That they might se nd in an audi tor. That th ey' ll come to check . Not to mention
that they might intro du ce the troops.
But what for , Gustav) To dri ve a nati o n into debt is a far 1110re secure form of
occupation than invasion.
Yeah , they are not like Slavs.
Not backward.
Advanced techn o logy.
Moreover, history has ended .
Got tired of repea ting itself and ended.
And, as for the audito r, we'll introdu ce him to M atilda .
Right. A coupl e of ti ckets in the box office for
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Lake.
Water resources, after all.
