To the Ends of the Earth (2011)
“BASIL’S, AND TO THE METROPOLE HOTEL, where I had stayed in 1968—it was now a sort of monument—and I strolled through the GUM store, looking at the merchandise.
While I was staring at some very inferior-looking alarm clocks, I realized that the woman on my right and the one on my left were sidling nearer to me.
“Is nice clock? You like clock?”
I said, “Alarm clocks wake you up. That’s why I hate them.”
“Is funny,” the woman on my right said. She was dark, in her early twenties. “You want to chan...ge rubles?”
The surprising thing to me was that one of these young women was pushing a little boy in a pram, and the other had a bag of what looked like old laundry. They were pretty women, but obviously preoccupied with domestic chores—airing the baby, doing the wash. I invited them to the ballet—I had bought pairs of tickets. They said no, they had to cook dinner for their husbands and do the housework, but what about changing some money? The rate was seventy-two cents to the ruble: they offered me ten times that.MoreLess
While I was staring at some very inferior-looking alarm clocks, I realized that the woman on my right and the one on my left were sidling nearer to me.
“Is nice clock? You like clock?”
I said, “Alarm clocks wake you up. That’s why I hate them.”
“Is funny,” the woman on my right said. She was dark, in her early twenties. “You want to chan...ge rubles?”
The surprising thing to me was that one of these young women was pushing a little boy in a pram, and the other had a bag of what looked like old laundry. They were pretty women, but obviously preoccupied with domestic chores—airing the baby, doing the wash. I invited them to the ballet—I had bought pairs of tickets. They said no, they had to cook dinner for their husbands and do the housework, but what about changing some money? The rate was seventy-two cents to the ruble: they offered me ten times that.MoreLess
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