it seems to me that if one's life depended on keeping one's thoughts secret, as was true for Shostakovich, I'm dubious that Volkov's memoir is believable.

well, there's this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZaQ...

attend, silently. not a word or motion. Take your seats, then leave after. Don't talk to colleagues or reporters or anybody until you've left for the night.

lol, yeah no doubt.

Don't take this the wrong way, but if I (a trumpet player) had to pick an instrument to play at 715am, it would very likely be a viola.

reddit came to the rescue -- it's my faulty memory of Honeysuckle Rose.

to them, it's just an inconvenient distraction to the job of
dismantling government.