“Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.”
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It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened.
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Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
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