This time, I enclosed a few pages of one of the short stories I had secretly written.
Samizdat, (from Russian sam, "self," and izdatelstvo, "publishing"), literature secretly written, copied, and circulated in the former Soviet Union and usually critical of practices of the Soviet government.
Ravinskij also read books that were secretly written and circulated (known as samizdat) and especially prohibited works that were published abroad (known as tamizdat).
For the purposes of offering a "balanced" debate, I assume that the poor producer had to keep ringing round until she found someone with the view that all of Shakespeare's works were secretly written by frogs.
It was to Alec that I had secretly written on my twenty-first birthday — Alec Glassey, M.P., care of the House of Commons, Private — to inquire whether his sister, my mother, was alive and, if so, where she might be found.
It was to Alec that I had secretly written on my twenty-first birthday Alec Glassey, M.P., care of the House of Commons, Private to inquire whether his sister, my mother, was alive and, if so, where she might be found.
(I know, I know: a story about a death-haunted writer, by a death-haunted writer — but it's actually one of the standouts, thanks to its great twist. The narrator's boyfriend has secretly written his own story about her dying mother, and scored a big success with it).
The details of the aerial map are secretly written into the actual visual data of the street map: thousands of tiny changes in color that the human eye wouldn't notice, but that the computer can easily detect.
