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Questions 1. Did you ever play the piano again after your mother died and if so, what did you play? 2. Could you sing and did you ever sing later on in life when you were married and living away from Moscow? 3. If you can remember (and please try) what songs exactly did you sing? 4. What did you think when you took your pen in your hand and wrote that letter to Stalin? 5. Did you feel a kind of heat of the mind and also a chill somewhere in your stomach? 6. Did your hand shake? 7. Is time mostly to do with feeling and thought? 8. Is time a trap, in your opinion? 9. Am I completely responsible for what I do with time, or not at all, or partly? 10. How powerful – would you say – is a poem not to do with war? 11. Did you like the violin? 12. Were you an insomniac? 13. Compared, I mean, to one about war? 16
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You Could Show a Horse (an experiment in collage) You could show a horse, you might see some riderless horse, galloping among the rushing among the enemy with its mane in the wind with his mane flying in the wind causing heavy casualties and doing no little mischief with his heels. Or you could show a man, mutilated, some maimed warrior may be seen lying on the ground fallen to the earth shielding himself in some way covering himself with his shield with his enemy bent over him and trying to while the enemy bending over him tries to deal him a deathstroke – or show a lot of people fallen on to a dead horse A number of men fallen in a heap over a dead horse – and you could show the men you would see some of the victors, leaving the fight, abandoning the conflict emerging from the and issuing from the crowd using both hands rubbing their eyes and cheeks with both hands, to clean their faces, to clean them of the dirt made by their watering eyes now coated smarting from the dust and smoke in tears which have poured from their dust-filled eyes. 17

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1. Did you ever play the piano again after your mother died and if so, what did you play?

2. Could you sing and did you ever sing later on in life when you were married and living away from Moscow?

3. If you can remember (and please try) what songs exactly did you sing?

4. What did you think when you took your pen in your hand and wrote that letter to Stalin?

5. Did you feel a kind of heat of the mind and also a chill somewhere in your stomach?

6. Did your hand shake?

7. Is time mostly to do with feeling and thought?

8. Is time a trap, in your opinion?

9. Am I completely responsible for what I do with time, or not at all, or partly?

10. How powerful – would you say – is a poem not to do with war?

11. Did you like the violin?

12. Were you an insomniac?

13. Compared, I mean, to one about war?

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