they were really off. Cycling? Do we have
enough bikes? Where are we going first?
Elisa wanted to go to 'The Plak'. That gay
bar? No, art school bar, nowadays. Gay's
are back to 'The Bakkertje'. Elisa wanted
to dance. In the basement of 'The Plak' ...
they surely play Donna Summer and stuff.
They now have an offshoot in the U-Street in A.
I was there with Marushka Ostapskaya. Elisa
had formerly lived with them, but had moved
to A. Eventually they had been to 'The Opera',
'The Spot' and 'The Plak'. They had lost Marfa
somewhere and of course everyone wanted to
go to 'The Mark'. That is to say, not Pavel and
Alyosha. They've had enough. Moreover ...
the Mark ... then you had to be really very
thirsty. Big chance that Tatyana would hook up
with Igor and his buddy Nikolka. Furthermore,
Hungarians, Poles and people from the district N.
Waving their money and guns. Maybe it was a little
bit early to go home, but ... At home in the kitchen
Pelageya Antonova and Nina Semyonova were
playing Yahtzee: a sort of poker with dice.
Let's finish that bottle of wine with them.
When Pavel was to his room, they opened
another bottle. Yet Nina wanted to go to
'The Mark', but Pelageya said: oh no, they
close in an hour. We'll wait to see who they've
towed along this time. And listened to a local
radio station playing mostly country music.
It had begun to snow. The snow didn't melt on
the deep frozen surface. By five o'clock Alyosha
went to bed. Tatyana knew the bartender and
they could party on behind closed doors.
