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Anna Akhmatova

In Our Time

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The Darkness of the Poem

Arcamata was able to do that herself, in fact. She introduced this framing text which explained the poem's significance and emphasised an epigraph. Ten people's quite a lot in civilian society, isn't it? How did they keep it dark? Well, she picked the right people because often actually you're right. It wasn't the saying that in a group of ten there would always be one informer, so it was the dangerous. One Judas, another group of twelve, wasn't it? Yeah, absolutely. And so she picked theright people quite clearly.

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