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In those days Gippius was an influential grande dame of literature, and the fact that she stood up for a young poet of whom, from the first, the Symbolists—Briusov in particular—took a very poor view spoke extremely well, to my mind, of the literary manners of the time, and of Gippius herself. * Once they had emigrated and lost contact with their milieu, people had no com punction about talking the most utter nonsense. ’s mother com ing to see him at Apollon reached us while M. was still alive and deeply offended him; Irina Odoyevtseva, who has preposterous things to say about Gumilev, as well as giving M.
3 “ We” time of our first meeting in Kiev in 1919, M. had an al . most childish faith in people’s friendship and good will. He liked the Junk Shop almost as much as the Stray Dog—the clients were nice and the coffee was good. It soon closed down, however, because the man in charge decided it was not worth his while just to serve Turkish coffee and various cheap snacks, so we migrated to a Greek coffeehouse on Sophia Street. ” The pro prietor, astonished at such an influx of customers, ground coffee in a huge mill while his wife baked cakes and dispensed smiles all around.
The Odd Man Out of Acmeism ^^ was, he complained, directly at the expense of the others. But Lo patinski stuck to his guns, and although we got less than the others, it was enough to pay for our lavash * and rice. This pleasant existence suddenly came to an end in Baku when several people in the coach, including Lopatinski, fell ill with cholera. Our coach was shunted into a siding; now immobilized, we went on living in it like a gang of railway men, while the stricken members of our party recuperated in the city.