CAIETUL VII“ - FRAGMENT DIN „POVESTEA BIETEI MELE VIEŢI“ (INEDIT)

„Ion D. Sirbu’s idea of memories dates back, according to his owntestimony in 1979,when he decided that: „I will buy a tape recorder. I wish - because Ihave a special gift of oral storytelling, live speech of heart to heart confession – I wish [...]to „tell” (as in the park, pubs, cemetery) those memories that cannot be written becausethey were too lived!!”In 1980-81, Ion D. Sîrbu bought a tape recorder MAJAK 203 and recorded ontwo ORWO tapes, of 360 m, some of the memories (childhood, adolescence and theearly months of his student life in Sibiu). On June 7th, 1989, „urged by the ghosts of myinsomnia, I open a new notebook and start - for the first time - to write the story of mypoor life. I will not be concerned at all to be precise, the memory began to leave me, nordo I care about my life as reality but as a story: thought, dreamed, told dozens of timesand, especially, lived. „He wrote 75 pages, the latter probably before the end of the month, since, on 1st July,dictates to his wife a letter to David Prodan. The story line „breaks” the day he left for war.This fragment (ms., Pp. 23-28) and the three letters, all unique, we have included inthe volume: Ion D. Sirbu Latest ..., soon printed”. (Toma Velici)