HE USED VULGAR WORDS BEING BESOTTED WITH POWERMy Tolik.
We never did get married. When we left school, Ulia and I went off to university and Tolik was called up for his military service. By the second year of my course I no longer thought of Tolik as my intended. Anton appeared in my third year. I can’t say that I’ve never thought about what my life would have been like if I hadn’t turned down the invitation to go to the dance over at the village club in Pryluki. But turn it down I did, so that’s all there is to it.
Tolik now works as a tractor driver. More than that — he is a tractor driver. That’s what he does. He’s forgotten about everything else. And he’s a terrible alconaut — he literally swims in the stuff. I heard that last summer he packed his son off to study at the Economics Un
