• 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: