More specifically concerning: russian
properly instructive (2)
22 December 2009, around 1.07.
How to behave in a library.
stulta navis
27 January 2015, around 5.21.
in which culture achieves its apotheosis and history is denied
Citation (53)
25 January 2016, around 15.43.
the ship of fools…
what counts
5 April 2017, around 18.44.
The walk to work takes an hour to cover approximately three miles. This is a bit slow, perhaps, but given the uncertain state of draw bridges, traffic signals, and my own ambling pace, it feels about right. It gives me plenty of time to think – about the day ahead, about anything at all. The […]
so to speak
12 August 2020, around 6.43.
A scene from Rousseau’s Confessions ((I see by this image that I meant to include Rousseau somehow. I’m not quite sure what I was thinking, but it probably wouldn’t have worked very well. I think I was intending to bring more Gogol into the matter, too, but that hasn’t happened either.)) We were walking away […]