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Roman Leibov. Perpetual link:
Results, prospects and strange convergences; find yourself; dictionary as a model of the world
GAME: RESULTS AND PROSPECTS
Once N. Kolpiy beat everyone completely. And he defeated Kusikov with an absolute score. True, the activity of players, due to summer holidays and the irregularity of Link releases, has dropped significantly.
The final results are:
24 points - N. Kolpiy;
18 points - pshusha;
13 points - Yu. Volodarsky;
11 points - Masha;
9 points - mL;
8 points - Kuznetsov, Sochny;
5 points - Amin, Brodsky, Kost Skriptum, Savvaty, M. Sazonov;
3 points - Kuzya, Lisa Kabinetova, SEMENOV, 7 turtles, N. Sorokin;
2 points - a_l, dk, Igor Astapov, Ia-Ia, Klimpert-Krutko, Kum, Leonid, Horse, mgm, olga, Sergey;
1 point - voldie, gollie, Green, DA, Dima, dk, dmkom, Semen Gorbunkov, sdgf, Muhins, nekto petya, Ivan Shelukhin, A. Noskov, Karina, Lena, LenaZ, mgm, mm, Natalya, Sex mutant, Slavik, source, Phi, hcab;
However, I am announcing an additional round - below is a list of names of poets whose poems acted as tasks. It is proposed to name the three leaders of readers' sympathy in the correct order (Vaginov and Kuzmin significantly appeared twice; the text that received a higher rating is taken into account). I would say right away that I would never guess:
Adamovich, Bunin, Brener, Vaginov, O. Grigoriev, Gunitsky, Dolinov, Durov, Eremin, Kovalevsky, Marshak, N. Matveeva, Minsky, Parshchikov, Polonsky, Prutkov, Sedov, Semenov, Teffi, V. Khlebnikov.
Name 
I’m also tired of playing “guess the author.” I propose a more free and visually oriented game, dedicated, again, to the doctoral dissertation of E. Grigorieva.
The players' task is to write a text that is somehow correlated with the picture (there are no restrictions on genre or volume). Usually illustrations are drawn for verbal texts, but we will do the opposite.
I will post texts sent by readers in the Link. Readers will be asked to choose the best one. The author of the best text receives one point. The author of the text that I consider the best gets another point. The game goes up to ten points.
Today is the first task. The photograph taken by D. Flitman in Tartu shows graffiti that until very recently adorned a building not far from the old observatory, maternity hospital and anatomical theater. Good luck to everyone in the game! Send texts by mail!
GAME 2: FIND YOURSELF
Last time I promised to describe one game.
The partner is the search engine "Yandex", which has twice radically changed the design of the main page over the past period and has been significantly modified. But this is not a hindrance for our games.
The game is called "Find Yourself". The rules of the game are simple: you open the search window and enter the first word you come across, which in one way or another characterizes your state, mood, or simply life circumstances. Then, having received the search results, check the “Search in found” box and enter the next keyword. The steps are repeated until the number of documents found is minimal.
Let's say you're on vacation , it's evening , you're drinking wine , not because you're an alcoholic, but it's just hot , the neighbors playing too loudly downstairs have music , you could go for a walk (especially since you need to buy food for the cat ), but you're lazy , and my leg hurts, worn out during yesterday's picnic...
You get a mystical story by Nal Podolsky "A Cat's Story" . It is recommended to read the dropped text as paranoidly as possible, trying to find in the text as many parallels as possible with one’s own life and hints at possible developments of events (I didn’t do this with the cat story, since the example was constructed artificially - and it’s not evening, and it’s not hot, and - alas - not yet vacation).
It’s interesting that almost always at the top are either literary texts (most often prosaic and quite voluminous, although sometimes, if you overuse high vocabulary, a selection of poems can come out - I recently received this in the form of a Rimbaud diagnosis ), or pages of guest books. Is it possible to consider the latter as a new type of psychological literature, characterized by the multipersonality of the author?
Of course you can. Who's stopping?
VOCABULARY GAMES
But Margarita Isaeva sent the following letter:
- Dear Roman,
By the will of evil fate, abandoned to the Far Abroad, I spend long hours reading the Russian magazine, as well as the English-Russian and vice versa dictionary (Happer Collins. Russian dictionary. HapperCollinsPublisher. ISBN 0-06-276528-0). Attempts to read it in different directions, such as from top to bottom, from right to left, from end to beginning, did not lead to anything good. But somehow I tried to read the range of words contained on it (in it?) printed at the top of each page, and on the second page a discovery awaited me:
August agony
Happer Collins insisted inexorably. God, how true this is! My heart began to beat in anticipation of new discoveries. Which, however, did not slow down.
the apparatchik fights (p. 8)
mayhem BBC (p. 19)
biblical prudence (page 20)
military influence (p. 43)
Then the prose of life invaded:
where is the tie (page 67)?
denomination tenfold (page 87)
proof down (p. 94) Hmm, our Happer Collins reveals somewhat obscurantist intentions.
drop in to catch (p. 131)
evil farmer (p. 138)
Toothy son-in-law (page 141)
choose resourceful (p. 144)
interesting irrational (p. 152)
art critic correct (p. 154) and this is a whole positive program
capitalism pocket (p. 163) well, you can’t argue with that
communal team (p. 174)
conservator controller (p. 177)
space coffee pot (page 182)
myth to multiply (p. 215) to propose to the communists, for calls for May 1
monopolist Muscovite (p. 218) Happer Collins doesn’t really like Muscovites. However, things are no better with Muscovites:
Muscovite avenger (p. 219)
rebellious fly agaric (p. 221) Yeah, a hint of the psychedelic revolution
problems continuous (page 251)
inferior nothingness (p. 259) a rather pessimistic philosophy
fire custom (p. 276) Yes, our customs are now increasingly fire customs
especially sick of it (p. 290) Is this about the fire custom?
evaluator error (page 307)
pioneer teacher (p. 313)
I'll wait for now (p. 343)
half-finished semi-finished product (page 347)
semi-final pardon (page 348)
From the series someone:
honor great-grandmother (p. 358)
ensign's rights (p. 359)
exaggeration of profits (p. 365)
homestead alien (p. 375)
belly trifle (p. 394) well, finally, at least something optimistic!
swear Russify (p. 426) Here any comments will only be superfluous.
racket cassock (p. 428) racketeers in cassock? Well, it hasn't come to that yet...
brother-in-law conspire (p. 437)
syo secretary (p. 439)
courage to laugh (p. 453)
SS Stalinism (471)
And here we have a whole love story on 3 pages (pp. 472-274)
push high school girl
senior student is laying
creep shy
Unfortunately, not finished.
tiger comrade (p. 495) This is debatable.
a third is required (p. 501) And this, on the contrary, is indisputable.
the heaviness of the hoes (p. 507) Wonderful! Don't forget, send to hollywood@america.com in continuation of the silence of the lambs
acceleration will be in time (p. 523) Eh, if Mikhail Sergeevich had listened, maybe he would still be president
a brave, thin man (p. 541) Well, that’s only in the movies. Although I wonder if there are relevant statistics? Send a recommendation to the Committee on Awards and Their Revocation: from now on, let the award documents indicate the height and weight of the recipient for scientific purposes.
tongue clear (p. 571)
In general, if you have the courage , then laugh
Or you can swear and Russify
And in the meantime I will shake and bye
Margarita
On this occasion, I remembered an old pastime - searching in various old dictionaries for the word “Internet”. In my "The Oxford Handy Dictionary" it would fit between Internee and Internist (and that is to say - internal and external are constantly confused here, you cannot do without a medical specialist).
In the Russian-English (edited by Daglish) this topic is outlined even more openly: at the top is the word “international”, at the bottom is “internment”.
In the Oxford "Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms" - between internal rhymes and interpolations (the former, apparently, hint at references, the latter - at the textual features of the previously mentioned type of network literature).
In "Myths of the Peoples of the World" the Internet is conveniently located between Inti (the solar deity in Quechua mythology, united in three persons - ftp, http and smtp, presumably) and, of course, incest (no comments needed).
Finally, in the dictionary "Russian Writers: 1800-1917" our hero found himself lumped in with Vasily Antonovich Insarsky ("the ability to show the character of the person being described, the plasticity of descriptions, subtle humor, and the breadth of coverage of events made I.'s books a noticeable phenomenon in Russian memoir literature 19 century,” says A.I. Reitblat) and Porfiry Pavlovich Infantiev, author of the book “In the Homeland of the First People. The Adventures of Two High School Students in Central Asia.”
I don’t even know what this means, but some vague meanings appear. The breadth of coverage of events against the backdrop of the Wild West. That is, of course, the East, but seen through Mainread’s prism, probably. It would be nice to find and read Porfiry Pavlovich’s book .