Russian Roulette
“He concentrated on a small hole developing over his left big toe and, using this as a Yoga focus, tried hard to blot out his immediate surroundings.
It was useless. He had already tried putting his fingers in his ears, but the sound still came through. He had even used a trick remembered from his childhood –making a deep humming noise and holding his nose to force the sound up to his ears. This might have been proof against midnight house noises fifty years ago in Minsk, but as a defence agains...t Darya’s shrill nagging, it was a miserable failure.
She came to the door of the living room now, wiping her reddened hands on her apron as if practising manual strangulation.
‘… and why is it that you work later than Savitsky almost every night, eh? He can get home to take his wife to the stadium or the cinema a couple of times a week … you’re senior to him, but you have to stay at that old Petrovka all hours!’ Alexei had given up God to join the Party, but now he found great relief in a muttered blasphemy.MoreLess
It was useless. He had already tried putting his fingers in his ears, but the sound still came through. He had even used a trick remembered from his childhood –making a deep humming noise and holding his nose to force the sound up to his ears. This might have been proof against midnight house noises fifty years ago in Minsk, but as a defence agains...t Darya’s shrill nagging, it was a miserable failure.
She came to the door of the living room now, wiping her reddened hands on her apron as if practising manual strangulation.
‘… and why is it that you work later than Savitsky almost every night, eh? He can get home to take his wife to the stadium or the cinema a couple of times a week … you’re senior to him, but you have to stay at that old Petrovka all hours!’ Alexei had given up God to join the Party, but now he found great relief in a muttered blasphemy.MoreLess
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