Word: sinyavsky
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...often alarmingly interior. Ignorance and illness are unfreedoms. Unfreedom, like freedom, is often subjective. Compulsion and fear are states of unfreedom. But objective enslavement can make one strong. The soul is a cagey survivor. Prisoners in states of unfreedom contrive their own covert liberty. The Soviet writer Andrei Sinyavski, sent to the labor camps for six years (1966 to 1971) for "manufacturing" anti-Soviet works, wrote, "I measure life by the number of times my head is shaven." He thought about Mozart and Haydn. He kept a handwritten copy of the Book of Revelation in his boot, and that became...
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