The Symphonies by Jonathan Stone

The Symphonies by Jonathan Stone

Author:Jonathan Stone
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LCO014000, Literary Collections/Russian & Former Soviet Union, FIC019000, Fiction/Literary
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2021-11-02T00:00:00+00:00


“We are dragged from city to city and, dragging us there, they again fix the yoke on our shoulders. They heal us when we’re ill only to ruin our health once again.

We surrender ourselves, our very selves, to labor and servitude. They don’t kill us, freeze us, or let us die from hunger.

Where is the yes that we surrender?”

The ghostly pale laboratory worker gloomily whined, worn out by labor and exhaustion. Covering a test tube with his thumb, he shook it.

The moon crawled out from behind a cloud over the heavy black hulking buildings. It was obscured by smoke, like a bridal veil.

As if it wanted to say, “Here is the evening and here am I … The night will come … And you will sleep …”



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