Sunday, April 27, 2025

Dostoevsky and Suslova

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  Mixed Up Guy From Dostoevsky’s notebooks for his novel The Devils : “Stavrogin [the central character], when he believes does not believ...
Thursday, April 24, 2025

Translations: The Bestest of the Best: TWELVE, Fyodor Tyutchev, "Слезы людские," TEARS

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  Fyodor Tyutchev (1803-1873)   Слезы людские, о слезы людские, Льетесь вы ранней и поздней порой… Льетесь безвестные, льетесь незримые...
Saturday, April 19, 2025

Translations: THE BESTEST OF THE BEST: Eleven, Ivan Bunin, "Настанет день — исчезну я," THE DAY WILL COME

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                                                        Image by Jorg Hempel: Tortoiseshell [ Note: I am reposting the very best of my tran...
Monday, April 14, 2025

Christ and Flesh

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  Christ In The Flesh and Not In Christian Gnosticism the docetic idea is that Christ’s body in flesh was a mere illusion. Christ was a pr...

How and Why We've Come to What We've Come To

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  How and Why It Happened I’ve finally figured out what the problem with America is. The problem is that Yogi Berra’s dead. They should ha...
Sunday, April 13, 2025

Translations: The Bestest of the Best: TEN Igor Chinnov, "Не кажется ли тебе," DON'T YOU FEEL

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  Igor Chinnov (1909-1996)   Не кажется ли тебе, что после смерти мы будем жить где-то на окраине Альдебарана или в столице ...
Saturday, April 12, 2025

Translation of poem by A.A. Fet, А.А. Фет, "На рассвете," DAWN

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  А.А. Фет (1820-1892)   На рассвете   Плавно у ночи с чела Мягкая падает мгла; С поля широкого тень Жмется под ближнюю сен...
Sunday, March 30, 2025

Translations: The Bestest of the Best, NINE: Osip Mandelstam, VIOLINIST

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  Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938)                                                                 СКРИПАЧКА За Паганини длиннопалым Бе...