If you win, what sort of a world will it be for people like you? They’ll never trust you—you are a bourgeois—‘I don’t suppose they even trust you now. And you don’t trust them. Do you think you’ll find among those people—the ones who destroyed the National Museum and Z.’s pictures—anyone interested in your work?’ He said gently—it was like being recognized by a State academy—‘I mean the Berne MS.’

