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Iii A REPOMIr.

‘ihat means | tall] stories that reallly happened.

In my books there is no fiction, no falorication.

FOP OVE? SO YEM3 NOW

"Ve been tahmng ADouE the fakes

Of POl8S, Jews, anc EGarnmans,

EMOMNOSeValestaelonen, fangled yp with one another,

ama! What tangled them Up was WY.

Nose fates are onan terriole;

Ut At ine Same mne iMese MeVasemaung

ana! VY Nard tO SHAKE Ott.

IKrAyszior Kieslowski ancl | Tea tence a tirlencdsiip,

an GmligViaStallSorarcollaloonration then We very much needed.

KiZysziogiaolhnade tho in Pensonal, fim Personel,

wien | say on talevision,

kt used actors while pretenciing to be a documentary.

Ke rooled mie. | realllhy thouginty twas a cocumentany.

I simply loved! thet iii.

linatsamenicar my book about Marek Ecelman,

Shiaekding the Flame, appeared in the monthly dra.

AraAyecior reacl thet loool,

AMcligimenested and intriguec! iim.

SoronewavinewUsiealleciiine at home ancl saiicl...

“Don't you tininlx vou and | should meet?”

| saillel, “Oi course!”

i tumed] UL VE caukmnag about ine same things

and had ine SAME (MOHATS:

OUP MESSE [MONAT

Doin for Mis mis

ane! My reporwing =

A tine time | was sill vwiitting|

aloout the contemporary worlel AOU CEUS®

the People’s Repulolic of Poland...

ane it was é clulll, clulll worlel.

kt Was an ovenvinelming) anc oppressive dullness.

WAS SUGN 4 SNAPEIESS, pedestrian world

tinart itt Wore Doth Of us ternilohy,

ano] wea were lootin scarect

tinaminaceUllliness would penetrate our work =

my reporting and his ims = and thus began our thtendshifp.

WINN KZVSAOL MAGE 2 MU...

ne hac! an icea or what it would (oe,

a kine of futilding,

ama ne Lnew irom ne Start Wet ine founcaiton Wout! oe

EMOM Nadine Moon WOMMOOKEIKE:

Anal I'd (oe ine sypolving hin

nwiktn louliicing mettertals,

Tine Stories [el loring Inti

trom tine worllel, trom lita,

ware tine loullcling materials,

ih : a ee vend trea, ™ now and then,

lixe witin Eline Chamee,

At that mine Me quite here! fo ind 2 “‘hoole Gommmurnst.”

KA SAO MTG) about making Blinc) Chance,

WiMemvouloks nos

wmMee VAMALTONS OF ONG PATSON'S (ALB.

so happened | knew of a “noble communist”

oy the Name of Szezssniy.

All m3 Ne WES 2 SOcGast

(nan CUumtng tine VWI ne in the GormmuniIst (Parigy,

AA dine

Ne ANGI YOMS of the Stalinist period

Mt JAM, WNETE he kerrloly.

VS SACZBSMY WAS CaUGIN YD

in a love triangle.

nie ancl another man loved the same woman,

WO WES ine Oner Mans Ye:

/ told! thks Story to KIeSIowskt,

ing me quengee Ne Man's LAME

rom SZeZaaMy to WETICL.

| Inacl some clinticultties

Curing meritial lew...

ana! tine EW imines / s00Ke win Phasiewiez,

| nowesd he hac! 4 knaek tor telling stones.

Hie tole Ghrerant Stones ne Knew ls @ LAWYAR

and Ine tole tiem very tireely ancl easily.

ri@ SHOKS MOE like a whiter than a lawyer.

Ane! winen Kirayszior began working on Mo End...

in whieh a main character was 2 lawyer,

heraskecminme) tO introduce hin to a lemvear,

Erne! nent WAY SAOMMESIEWIEZ

Whitnout 2 cout, MICSIEW CASES EN Gti

was that he knew Ie well...

anal he Spoke alooutt lite with the of a wiiiter!

anal he pur that to use tOnoemenitatine mcollabonration:

ANG) ITZYSAOY man slaleakipadl Mlonmagess

intio ne language of ith.

MKC VAVLOTIKE O| WORM HOGENEN.

leaen needed the oiner VNY MUGCN.

Prom tine stan, Krayszior hack one cilemmea tin Iis work

MAONEICTOSSCOl Come bounceny

lor naa ne nor?’

nee _ vngree MOneranonmones

And || have a reeling

inat's winy he moved

irom reall lita to fiction,

rom Ine to an Invaniac! Worl!

BECAUSE YyneN Ne Greate Sk3 OWN CRAVACIGNS,

WercoulAig oly natevels neavameokhVithine na

/ tik (DSKAIOG) WAS € Som of pati

mom reall line

nO 2 ficwonell wore!

WSZYBAHON AH ASKING) M12...

YOu have any icleas for the Elohth Commandment?”

Because ine hac none,

“Thou shalt not bealatalSeawvitneSSis

Nier MUG retilection, they've they cannot lie

oetore tine Goel in whom tihey believe...

@ Goel wino, iit is true, enjoins acts of mercy

oun also tronolels pearing false witness.

Though they knew the purpose of tine lie involved,

WAS Irtreconecllalole with their orineloles.

Nett WAS alll.

| Knew a Stony

inet | thougint miclnt work

Kt was the story of a Jewish oir...

WO Wes tO le loalptizac}

Wil. cluring WW

/n@ PeQHE She GO GO lO.

WO WAS to (NEE NEP...

ens ¢ omen ng 2 bir Garimene

lin C2826 of CanuncEton:

SO ine Gil had to be beyotittzac,

ang tine GocjpaTranks had been YOON.

ne mother want along wiih ner CAUGNuST.

Ana wen they gott to ihe gparineamm,

ht qurmned out that ine intended gocperants

Chel’ Wenn KO Go to The Church.

IN@y SENG, it would all be 2. ike,

Wad oe telling nothing but falsehoods.

Wad nave to Me avout Why sne’s being bapitzed so late.

ie woul all be uniTUe:

WV be roreed to te in Ghureh, iin the jmresence of »

Ai end of tne tale stiooe/ WoUbe GocpPAMaAns,

Wao Now laAcKInG Out.

Alt tne other end sitooe/ ine mother and the Git.

Ine mnotuner Sane, WCSHOMCOUTSCM UAC stale =m

anal mney kere

Ut hAVING MOVMNGTE HO GO,

Mey just stood OUESIEE, though Kt wasnt SEH.

SO we Gin! salle), “Mommy, let's go.”

Ainckiinenmotnemanswene or a GORING Eyam

They couldn't go where they hacl intended,

pecause wey hac! NhooalotiSimalKeentiticates

Nat WAS the StONY.

AS iar as || KNOW, the olin survived tihe war.

SO tiNat’s t© StOFY OGEKMESIOWSKiF

| COM Now NOWAORS OC akeoratini Sphinn

tine wary Iit Is,

pecaliSenlmmeoorattached to the story as ft reallly was.

eaimewoackatonnisstonys

/ @ OOK CalleG/ White Maria,

WilGh MOSe OU Of tine IE Onseajenings

/ SEMAUMG fOr gocparants.

Wameotorknonvdamore)

Ane) Krayszior Piesiewicz ams ona of the One of the mcopie 1 epatea fo | Sooke to.

Ane] ne used tine ex~oression..d

re] SUDSGIVE SENSE Of Gullit.”

K's a kine! of quilt

by any penal code,

@ GUM 2) cammles around insice,

someunnes ner wnole Me:

nats tne kind of cuit

in Delxallog, light.

Meyorotessodice Ss OF UGK to

this subjective sense of guilt

of any exlicit crinne,

lout Sine Can accuse Inerseli!

SO It'S clinicullt to spealk of guily and forgiveness here.

ts something a person MaSmoniecomncile

within hersel? or himsell,

IY Cal GNOOSS.

i they WAIN to...

tiney Can set God! asic.

INANE 8 @ in tine min hat makes you ponder 2 bie

—- aoe ja ae fe ss Eouina NGF NECK.

Why coes she wear a cross?

One can simply presunte that she was beritized,

Nat SNS WAS tie seriously, that it's not fewelny.

Wnen SNe touched tn@ GOSS, / reeling

She Was asking thet person on the cross

for advice or meyyoe for nell.

el Onuatininketnexchralin WASKUNCOMOKtAMles

I have the reeling i's a familar Gesture.

The teacups were of Goocl quality,

DOU Gacn Was Clinerenty

A green ofl lam Sood unit on tine talole,

ihe man kept lnis hancs in his pockets

(Or tine enture nwo Or tinrae minutes.

aiatesalll in the way of details.

Insicle One of my loooks,

Konce a long letter to Krayszior.

| that ne ane | were telling

eloOu Completely cliierant people,

nal MY VemMAS CRAACHAS muehn uoler

Man SNmienemaciesses ene en eon reese

MY at and poonly Messed.

WMlewaNs beaut, composed beautill muste,

and spoke Franch to loot

So || coulleln’t iclentay

WitihinekennaleKxemanactens in nis films.

So he sent me 2 care,

We were always writing to each other,

even wien ne wasn in Polanel

Ks a Carel tron Eiue, ASB OURCAIIESC EE

KS @ FESpONnSe to my long letier,

iy long clechication!

ie) = lm jumping in in the malice =

“BU You know loeter than | tinatt tine world fis not clivickec!

SwMveen tine lbeautiul anc tne ugly, nor even tie thin ancl tine fat.”

nie rears here to muy look Dancing at Other Peonle’s Wedeings.

lin Daneing tine»re is only sutiiering and loss,

ane tine loeauttiul sutiiar as much as tihe ugly, lif not more,

pecause tiney consicler their suinering unjust, though its just the opposite.

Not only are tiney loeauttiiul, out they also want to be happy.

INS Imporant tining Is to stance

of those who are sacl,

DSecause they Ve lost something = and even ff theyve lost nothing.

| believe you and | are doing the same thing in this ragarel.

We stance) wittn tinem..J

anel tinatt sinoulle! foe enough for us tor nowy,

as a Sign of our sharec atiionpts to figure things out.

LOWS, IKTAVSZAtON. |

We Stanel witin tinem,

WOURACEIRStalnel Wwitin te Sac] Ones...”