[b]Svetlana Alexievich
If anyone got indignant and wanted to take the coffin back home, they were told that the dead were now, you know, heroes, and that they no longer belonged to their families. They were heroes of the State. They belonged to the State.[/b]
The fucking State again! Though not ours of course. Well, not yet.
Do you know that it can be a sin to give birth? I’d never heard those words before.
Still, sooner or later, there’s really not much that you won’t hear.
People aren’t heroes. We’re all peddlers of the apocalypse. Big and small.
Someone’s been tripping on the Bible.
Chernobyl, while an accident in the sense that no one intentionally set it off, was also the deliberate product of a culture of cronyism, laziness, and a deep-seated indifference toward the general population.
Deliberately accidental?
Where are we going to get tens of thousands of dollars if my husband makes 120 dollars a month? One professor told us quietly: “With her pathologies, your child is of great interest to science. You should write to hospitals in other countries. They should be interested.”
Of course it’s a true story.
I’m a product of my time. I’m not a criminal.
Sure that might work.