“Why afraid?” I ask.
“I’m afraid that if I fall asleep I won’t have the presence of mind to wake up, understand?”
Dogg pours again, but I refuse, that’s it, I say, enough, let’s go to bed, Dogg gets up with displeasure, on the sofa in one of the rooms we find Vasia, who has wrapped himself in some blanket and is sleeping contentedly, and there’s nothing left for us but to go and find some other bed or sofa, or something, we go into the other room and see Marusia there in the large bed that is very familiar to us, now without even the dressing gown, she has pushed her head under the pillow and is sleeping that way and is not paying us any particular attention, this is a strange endless night that is now transforming into a similar morning, our friends crawl off into various corners and lo
