:04:02
And so he talked about the Revolutlon.
:04:04
You lay life on a table and you cut out
all the tumors of injustice. Marvelous.
:04:09
I told hlm If he felt llke that
he shouldjoln the Party.
:04:12
Cutting out the tumors of injustice,
that's a deep operation.
:04:16
Someone must keep life alive
while you do it.
:04:18
By living.
:04:20
Isn't that right?
:04:21
I thought then It was wrong.
:04:24
He told me what he thought
about the Party and I trembled for hlm.
:04:28
He approved of us, but for reasons
whlch were subtle, llke hls verse.
:04:33
Approval such as hls
could vanlsh overnlght.
:04:36
I told hlm so.
:04:37
Of course, I can't approve this evening
something you may do tomorrow.
:04:41
He was walklng about wlth a noose
round hls neck and dldn't know.
:04:45
So I told hlm what I had heard
about hls poems.
:04:51
Not liked?
:04:53
Not liked by whom?
:04:56
Why not liked?
:04:58
So I told hlm that.
:05:09
Do you think it's "personal,
petit-bourgeois and self indulgent"?
:05:14
I lled.
:05:16
But he belleved me.
:05:18
And It struck me through to see
that my oplnlon mattered.
:05:24
The glrl knew what It meant,
what It was golng to mean.
:05:26
They couldn't survlve
what was comlng In the clty.
:05:29
I urged them to leave and llve obscurely
somewhere In the country...
:05:33
...where they could keep themselves allve.
:05:35
We have, used to have,
an estate at Varykino, near Yuriatin.
:05:41
The people know us there.
:05:43
He dldn't reslst.
:05:45
I offered to obtaln permlts,
passes, warrants...
:05:48
...told them what to take
and what to leave behInd.
:05:55
I had the Impertlnence to ask hlm
for a volume of hls poems.