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Moldova, library deskAn afternoon at a library desk in Moldova, chasing one thread and pocketing scraps meant for other books.Read in his absenceA congress volume of 1912 as a scan: one sentence on printed page 626, an author prevented from appearing, and a hall in Graz I have never seen.The institute says noFrom a Tbilisi guesthouse, the successor institute's own page on Ivanov: he helped organise the nursery, he never worked there, and the experiments are not documented.As close to Sukhumi as the rails allowTwo weeks in a Tbilisi courtyard, sulphur steam, and a slow Black Sea train that stops where the timetable and the border both freeze.The reserve in twenty three volumesThe journal of Askania Nova is online back to 2000, which is now the only way in: counts, plots, methods, and an institution under occupation.An abandoned sanatorium in MoldovaCold rain in Chisinau, old hospital papers, wine cellars, and the central market: returning to the landscape of Ivanov's Ghost to deepen the companion archive, not to begin again.Holding the First CopyThe first printed copy of my debut novel arrived this morning in Bishkek. I sat with the cezve and tried to believe the years had led here.The wrong IvanovThree point three million records, one exact name match, and a man who was shot in 1919: how close a novel came to carrying somebody else's death.
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