![]() ![]() ![]() The activist gives the objects to a little girl as toys, but not until she has marked a piece of paper confirming receipt of them. Without fully realising what he was doing, Voshchev had parsimoniously gathered up in his bag the material remains of the lost people who, like him, had lived without truth and who had perished before the final victory. All these decrepit and long-suffering bits of scrap had once touched the flesh and blood of village labourers these things were imprinted for ever with the sufferings of lives that had been spent doubled over in toil, lives expended without conscious meaning only to come to an inglorious end somewhere out in the rye stubble. ![]() He had been round the village collecting every wretched cast-off object he could find, all the forgotten bits and pieces that had no name or identity, so Socialism could avenge them. Towards the end of The Foundation Pit, our wandering hero pours a miscellany of inanimate objects onto the desk of the local Communist Party ‘activist’ and asks him to make an inventory of his findings. ![]()
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