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For this essay I wished to extend my last piece´s thoughts by exploring ‘Omon Ra,’ which was written in 1992 and thus explores faith and divinity as manufactured unrealities differently… Read more ⇢
But here they are in front of me. These lines. I remember now how I wrote them. How I softened the facts out of caution, how I glossed over them,… Read more ⇢
We had known Kerenski a long time. Before the war he had visited us often, and during it we encountered him frequently in the countless left-leaning circles of the intelligentsia.… Read more ⇢
This black notebook is just a hundredth of the ‘Petersburg Diaries’ that I have written daily, without break, since the first declaration of war. I’ll explain later what fate befell… Read more ⇢
‘There is a good reason why the style is the iron capital of her art and one of the very few exportables in our national literature. Nałkowska herself is style… Read more ⇢
‘The existence of this book is a pledge that the tangled, mute masses of things unformulated within us may yet emerge to the surface miraculously distilled’ With the technical language… Read more ⇢
By Spencer Siles As I walked down the street the other day, a group of Evangelists stopped me to hand me a leaflet, which I accepted out of curiosity. On… Read more ⇢
‘You wouldn’t believe how many mice there are in a cellar like mine, two hundred, five hundred maybe, most of them friendly little creatures born half blind, but there’s one… Read more ⇢
‘and only God, omnipotent indeed, knew they were mammals of a different breed.’ -Vladimir Mayakovsky ‘One day when I was alone in my Manhattan apartment, the bell rang. Assuming it… Read more ⇢
Author’s Foreword Sometimes I wonder: Is it not peculiar to write of such strange memories – of such tales of forgotten love? If only I was a celebrity, or if… Read more ⇢
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