[p 55] There were no doubts in authenticity of Melnychenko’s recordings, which was mainly corroborated by the panic that reigned in Bankova Street after Moroz’s press conference. In the evening, I was told that Yulia Mostovaya and Slava Pihovshek had visited the presidential administration. The leading Ukrainian journalists were usual guests on Bankova Street and personally communicated with all participants of Melnychenko’s tapes. [p 146] When meeting Melnychenko in the Bankova corridors, Marchuk would divert his eyes elsewhere.

He sketched the accident, sticking to the facts as they had happened.

Lifeboat isn’t real life. Go outside. Touch grass. Or seaweed; whatever’s down there.

Pat found subject and scene of his wooing unaltered, but all his specious blandishments could not induce the matured matron of 'Gi' Away Nothin' 'All' to join fortunes, though his perseverance would have delighted Bruce's spider.