• A month later, through Professor
Federigo Argentieri, professor of
History at the John Cabot American
University in Rome, whom I knew through James Mace, I was invited to a week-long Ukrainian conference at the University of Chicago at Urbana Champaign at which we would be giving presentations on the final day.
• Due
to my inability to speak Ukrainian, I took the opportunity to hide myself away and for the very
first time, make a transcript
of Gareth’s famine diaries – believe
it or not, nobody, including ourselves, had taken the time to study their contents, relying upon his
edited newspaper articles in
order to prepare our speeches about
Gareth.
• Without repeating what you are about to see in the film here are a few powerful diary entries which were not included in the final edit of The Living: