Word: andryusha
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Andryusha worked on his memoirs in Gorky, periodically rewriting sections. Not because of the author's severity or the grumblings of his first reader, first editor and first typist (all of them me) -- no! Because of another's will and another's hand. Sections kept vanishing. Once from the apartment in Moscow; once stolen along with his bag at the dental clinic in Gorky; once from our parked car, which had been broken into, with Andrei knocked out by some drug. Each time he rewrote his book. Each time there was something new -- sometimes better written, sometimes not, sometimes...
...They cannot step outdoors without a KGB escort. They are denied a telephone (they use pay booths or a special phone center). Because of jamming, they must go to the edge of town, where reception is good, to listen to the radio. There are touching moments of warmth between "Andryusha" and "Lusia" (or "Andryushenka" and "Lyusenka"), as they address each other. But the KGB's chilling presence invariably reasserts itself. As Bonner's title puts it, she and Sakharov are truly alone together...
That first evening we went to bed around midnight, but we were still excited and went on talking. Andryusha was trying to convince me that he had to start a hunger strike again in two weeks. Then he said that he had hope that maybe we could manage without a strike. I think he was afraid and really wanted to avoid a repetition. When we stopped talking he soon fell asleep. I lay with my hand on his chest, feeling his heart beat. First there would be several normal beats, then uneven beats, then two or three, followed by such...
...suddenly his face was transformed, in fact his face disappeared; all that was left were his eyes, alive and glowing. And he wiggled his rear end, as if he were dancing. I'd never seen Andryusha make a movement like that...
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