I Dont Cry

Stromas funeral or grandmother is the name of the threeday rite which is held every year in the village of Shutilovo Nizhny Novgorod region In its spirit it is the folk carnival about which Mikhail Bakhtin and Francois Rabelais wrote a change of appearance general merriment plenty of food drink indecent words and deeds During this game of death and burial there is no place for genuine grief But when things are going awry in the nonholiday life of a Russian village it is very difficult not to cry