Kirill Kutalov-Postoll. Dejection

Dejection
Kirill Kutalov-Postoll

Publication date: December 4, 2000

The mood couldn't be any darker. It seems that nothing new is happening at all, that everything has already come true a long time ago and now all it does is go in circles. On the other hand, sometimes it seems that you are going in circles yourself. This does not improve my mood.

The reception itself is very depressing, for example. Especially when it is the same, and for a long time. And you seem to understand that a stuck technique is already a technique in itself, but there is no strength to get even purely intellectual pleasure from this understanding. And I don’t even have a special desire. Vladimir Tuchkov with the continuation of the " Chants " project - see for yourself, maybe you will have better luck.

The plot is more depressing than ever before. Our Depts is a new story on the “Yacht “Lope de Vega”. Six months ago I would have said that the author could be forgiven a lot for such, for example, a fragment:

“When she had a stroke, she did not lose her speech. And she kept trying to make us laugh and show us that dying was not scary. The illness somehow liberated her, perhaps this was due to the nature of the brain damage, or maybe due to the fact that We were all next to her. Her jokes became unexpected, sometimes actually very funny, and we laughed in horror throughout the two weeks of her illness."

“They laughed in horror” - especially good. But not now. Two strokes on three and a half pages is a lot. That is, not abstractly “a lot,” of course (if there were thirty strokes, it would be somehow more fun), but contextually a lot. Because everyone dies, but no one is pitied and love does not conquer death.

The spelling is also depressing. Dmitry Kuzmin, commenting on the results of the Andrei Bely Prize, announced last week at the Central House of Artists, once again calls Derrida Derrida (not Dmitry Kuzmin personally “once again,” but once again in general). We will return to the names later, but there is almost nothing to say about the mentioned comment. How, in fact, there is nothing to say at all about the results of the award, positioned as a product for internal use, which, despite all the seemingly existing correlation with the latest events in literary life, rather captures a certain idea that there is eternity within the framework of a single of the year. And eternity is a sad thing in itself, in my opinion. Akin to strokes in some ways.

Kuzmin also calls Lev Pirogov a “gloomy bastard.” But even this no longer inspires heroic deeds.

The frequency of updates is catastrophically depressing. The project with the promising name " Cybershamanism ", judging by the guest book, was not created yesterday. The text on the first page is also quite promising:

“The strength of the modern urban tun is in connection with the consciousness of the city, with mass consciousness. Here he is like a fish in water, outside the urban environment his intuition weakens. Every development of modern communications, radio, television, the Internet develops and strengthens his abilities. Even an ordinary telephone , even the subway is imperceptibly fed by tuna, and at the intersections of transformed human signals, the power of his intuition exceeds ordinary human limits."

But apart from this text and the guest book, there is nothing on the site. Two supposed links, “cybershaman’s hiding place” and “other texts,” loom on the horizon like mirages in the web desert. And nothing. These are not links.

Honestly, even talking about sex is depressing. Especially these ones . Although at another time many things would seem amusing, especially the motifs of a newspaper placed under the leg of a swinging table, and pies, which serve as a kind of indicator of depravity, since only complete libertines and libertines eat them. Normal people run away from pies.

After this, it’s time to go and hang yourself on the wire connecting the computer to the phone.

Therefore, the five minutes of narcissism that concludes the review cannot be called excess. It's more of a therapy.

So.

Every information project, big or small, it doesn’t matter, besides news it broadcasts something else. Or rather, it is mainly this “something” that is broadcast, and the news is in addition. Every news project broadcasts itself first. The “Reading Online” project is no exception. Let’s be honest: everything that was written was written solely for the purpose of promoting the brand. I might not give the link from the word “written”. At the same time, the highest point of project development is a situation when the project itself is rebroadcast (without the participation of the creators) through other projects. This was the introduction.

Last week, among other fruits, brought the fruits of positioning and promoting the above-mentioned brand. First of all, Max Frei subtly captured all the nuances. Not so strong, but unexpected feedback was given by the guest book “ Lope de Vega Yachts ” (although, to tell the truth, I don’t know what’s unexpected about this, I’m writing about them for the third issue in a row). Official website of Holm Van Zaichik immortalized the backs of yours truly and Lev Pirogov (Pirogov’s back in the picture is wider than mine) in the context of gossip (here it is, glory!) That is, everything is very good, with one exception.

Addressing the anonymous person's interline anger at anonymity as a cultural phenomenon (Net-culture), Kirill Kobrin, in addition, as far as I understand, to desire, pointed out to me a significant positioning error, namely, a generic name that was too complex for the middle zone. And rightly so: if I had explained in a timely manner that its second part, unlike the first, is not inclined, everything would have been even better: Adelaide Metelkina would not have attributed alien endings to me, and Kirill Kobrin would not have difficulty with, as he called it, " surname."

In general, the recipe is simple. If you feel that you are not sure, do not write the second part at all. Why doesn't Max Fry write? I will understand, but the glory will not diminish.

And if anyone doesn’t believe about inclination, I can show you a certificate. I have. From " Edator.Ru ". Thank him very much for this help.