Sunday October 10, 2021; 8:41 PM EDT
- The head of the dictatorial government dies, and elsewhere a drunken man reflects, arriving at this conclusion: #
- “As long as there’s death, there’s hope.”#
- That's a moment in "Love Like Water, Love Like Fire" by Mikhail Iossel, which an astute reader I know has just recommended to me. It's a book of linked stories about life in the Soviet Union.word frequency calculator#