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INDEX
1 – ALYONA. RETURN TO MOSCOW
2 – DISCOVERY OF INDIA
3 – MY GOA
4 – ABU – THE FIRST MEETING
5 – THE NEW LIFE TOGETHER
6 – THE QUARTET
7 – HEREDITY ABU
8 – MONEY REFORM
9 – NEW YEAR 2018
10 – ABU’S LAST DAY
11 – PANDORA’S BOX
12 – ABU’S RELATIVES
13 – 20 DAYS WITH KEITH
14 – FRIENDS END ME
15 – СARNIVAL
16 – EXCILE ZERO
17 – PALOLEM. AGGY
18 – THE GAMES OF EMOTIONS
Alyona, a pale, tearful girl of Balzac’s age, who had lost ten kilograms during the last month, did not consciously wish to be anywhere else. She surrendered to the flow of life, and life’s vicissitudes ceased to attract her. She did not have any desire to start afresh as she had no other goals. She needed an urgent transformation, but she could not concentrate on anything. So, shewent along the stream. Life was going by apathetically, and to gain any satisfaction from it was like waiting in vain. All the resources were exhausted. She no longer wanted to listen to herself or look at the world from the outside. All the same, there were no new horizons for her, and the current ones only vexed her more.
She got rid of the prejudices and became disenchanted with the freedom that she had endured. Now she felt like a doll, a robot programmed by an unknown puppeteer.
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Next, the guys with mountain like hairdo, shaking different sized bed-sheets of Indian gods. Boys with metal-bucket selling masala tea in tiny disposable cups. Sellers of figurines made of stone, wood, glass, plastic, metal; tattoo-masters with catalogs of designs; girls in sari with henna tubes offering mehndi.
As soon as one was sent off, the next ones came to replace them: “Ma’am-ma’am, look”. Neither the closed eyes, nor the disregard, nor the shouts of “no-no” – absolutely nothing helped. There were even roving acrobats with performances evoking pity. Everything happened compulsively, unceremoniously and, most importantly, without break.
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