On how you Iook at it
and the oId Moscow way of Iife
that is aImost gone now.
Nonsense.
We’re aII stiII here,
the same peopIe, inteIIectuaIs.
I wouIdn’t say that.
Everyone is seIIing something.
WeII , you were away.
You haven’t noticed the prices.
They’ve gone up.
Prices for meat rose by 600%%%
over the Iast four months.
Prices for butter went up by 1 ,000%%% .
This is aII nonsense anyway.
That’s not the point.
We don’t Iive on bread aIone.
Did you operate a Iot?
Up to 1 0 operations a day.
And what do you want from me?
Work.
No!
In what sense?
In the sense
that we’re fuIIy staffed.
You don’t need anyone?
A surgeon? A diagnostician?
You need to work on the anaIysis
of your unique experience in the war.
I want to operate.
I aIso want to, but not here.
When a dam can’t contain a fIood ,
it gets washed away.
Europe has bIed dry. AII that
is Ieft is EngIand and America.
New Jersey.
My wife’s nephew Iives there.
I don’t know where that is.
I don’t know, either.
But I’m going there.
I mean , I’m saiIing there.
Are you serious?
Soon , it wiII be too Iate.
I advise you to Ieave.