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this place underneath triangles. I didn’t know
what was in these big cardboard boxes – maybe
mousetraps or handcuffs or barbed wire. They
produce a lot of traps and handcuffs and barbed
wire in Eastern Europe, for use in Western European
prisons or for sex and dancing. Or maybe
they were pieces of avant-garde art from Eastern
Europe. They were big enough to hide underneath
in the truck and then on the ferry from
Holland, but they were very uncomfortable. On
the (a) English shore, I, along with other illegals,
was met by pro-petty developers, who took us
to London to renovate old ugly houses and to
build new ones for the rich, famous and beautiful
who want to live next to ugly art.
It is difficult to be in London during the
winter. Outside it is warmer than in Russia.
But inside, a Russian can perish from the cold
because the English don’t very often stimulate
their central hitting in their houses. My point
of you is that you Western peoples don’t care
about what is inside the soul of the (a) man,
while Eastern peoples like me are for inner freedom
and warmth. I started living my London
life in a “bedsit” where I had an old coin-operator
to stimulate hitting inside. You need to have
enough 50-pence coins in your pocket not to die
of cold there. The temperature is not as freezing
as in Russia, but the cold and the northeast wind
gets inside your bones − it settles in there like a
squatter and never goes out.
My Polish developer buys cheap 1970s council
blocks and redevelops them into modern luxury
apartments. These blocks have old rubbish
chutes that look like crematorium chimneys.
My boss says we have to restore these chutes,
because his future buyers like houses with the
original features.
“In fact, these rich bastards like to have
rubbish chutes in their apartments so they can
throw pieces of conceptual art into the chute,”
he says. “There is too much conceptual art on
the market, so they buy it cheap one day and
the next day they want to throw it away to buy
more. But they don’t want to look like barbarians,
throwing this rubbish art into rubbish
bins for everyone to see. And so they want their
private rubbish chutes at home – to throw away
unwanted conceptual art without anyone to see
what they are doing.”
To rebuild the rubbish chute is not a simple
business. You have to remove the old rubbish
that has become like a hard rock at the bottom of
the chute. You have to work hard with the spade
or mattock and scraper to get rid of rocky piles
of rubbish before the chute can be rebuilt. I feel
FALL 2015