Mayakovsky and suicide

[Robert Chandler]

Dear all,

I am writing a review of a very good play about Mayakovsky, A Cloud in
trousers, which is now showing in London.  The writer, Steve Trafford,
weaves into the dialogue a number of quotations from Mayakovsky and his
contemporaries. 

When Lily Brik, who has a bad cough, goes out on a cold night to visit a
former lover who is threatening to commit suicide, her acerbic servant
counters Lily¹s remark that ŒTobinson is desperate¹ with the words ŒSuicide
is a private matter between a man and his God.  Not something you put on a
hook and go fishing with¹.

Does anyone recognize this, or is it Steve Trafford¹s invention?

Vsego nailuchshego,

Robert Chandler

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