IN SLOVAKIA #142 (197) Mikhail Epstein's projective lexicon January 15, 2006 This and the next three issues are about personal names and how inventive love is in their formation and lexico-grammatical transformations. About what R. Barth did not say in “Fragments of a Lover’s Speech.” This “article-poem” examines the meaning and form of a love name - and at the same time tries to embody those most tender possibilities of the Russian language that have not yet been fully revealed in it.

IN SLOVAK 201 Projective lexicon of the Russian language February 12, 2006 I congratulate our readers on the upcoming Valentine's Day - St. Valentine's Day. Valentina (February 14). Previous issues of "The Gift" - 142 , 143 , 144 and 145 - were devoted to love names, including those that lovers themselves create for each other and about each other, keeping them secret from everyone (cryptonyms). "Love is always a conspiracy of two...

Topic: The American professor-lawyer Eric Miller recently read the story of American soldiers serving in Iraq on the Internet. These soldiers, either from nothing to do, or because of a hot climate, I don’t know, photographed each other in a more or less naked form and sent their photos to the portal with the eloquent name "NowThatsfuckedup.com".