"...Where are the bathhouses, the paper spinning mills... ...With the scallops of relaxation, culture and water"... The images seem to be on top of the text, transimaginism. Out of the blue, as if outside of work. It quietly shocked me. After Mayakovsky, Yesenin. Such is the connection. As if it wasn’t him, the author, but you guessed it yourself. It’s as if the poems don’t even talk about this, but the poems themselves just look like this ...

Before I arrived at New York University, I never studied journalism and did not teach it. All that I could share with students was the ten -year experience of literary work in The New Yorker , The Atlantic Monthly , The New York Times Magazine and other publications. But I always clearly realized that what I am learning - these are just my methods, not the best and (hope) not the worst - the methods that were my reflection, good or bad.

Such a date - November 47 - as you know, does not exist in the calendar. This text was written before November 7, the very “red day of the calendar”, which suddenly “lost” so unexpectedly last year and was replaced by the Day of National Unity completely incomprehensible to most Russian people. Traditional communist demonstrations in honor of the 88th anniversary of the October Revolution have not yet been held throughout the country.

Recent events in France were amazingly "not seen" by state television channels. A stingy reports from the places of battles, nothing more. It is understandable - scary. If Ben Laden officially performed and called the initiator of all that mess that is happening today in one of the strongholds of European democracy, then we could talk about "international terrorism", which was impudently bursting into the "Citadel of Calm".

“Unrest” in France from the very beginning raised the question of the language. Firstly, the language of the "riots" themselves or the language of the primary description. This is significant precisely because the rebels themselves, the rebels (whatever they call them), do not say anything special.

Holidays are an unshakable phenomenon in its original essence. They can be different, these anniversaries, commemorative dates, days of folk fun, but so that there were no holidays at all - I don’t remember that. Any society comes up with a reason for resting. We are what we celebrate and how . In Russia with the holidays, there is a special case. "White will come - rob, red come - rob", as stated in one film of my childhood.

The "unrest" in France raised the question of language from the very beginning. Firstly, the language of the “unrest” itself or the language of the primary description. This is significant precisely because the rebels themselves, the rebels (whatever you call them), do not say anything special.

The consonant choir of liberals, with a mixture of disgusting bewilderment and sarcasm of those who respond to the newly-reliable festival, once again leads to unpleasant thoughts about, to put it mildly, the specific character of Russian-Soviet liberalism. It is no secret that this holiday is artificial, AD HOC was found for it, with a clear purpose to shift the day off from the usual date on November 7, but not too far.

With all its many shortcomings, American political reality seems to be specially created for reproduction in fiction.

Last week was marked by one large self -disclosure: on Wednesday, on the website of the “Independent Review of Provider”, an article by a certain Arkanoid was published, which tells about some details of the Levin case , which, as we recall, broke the “Cityibank” and stole a rather large amount of money from there. According to the article, the recipe for hacking was Levin sold for the amount of a hundred dollars.

The stormy events of the last fifteen years, it would seem, left the events of the first half of the 20th century, the October Revolution, the Civil War, the heritage of the leaders of the revolution, primarily Lenin and Stalin, in the distant past. A new generation has grown up, which did not encounter the official cult of Lenin and the Great October.

Topic: Last week, a maniac with a syringe appeared in Yekaterinburg. According to information agencies, the maniac ran through the streets and pricked people with a syringe. In the area of ​​the South Bus Station, two more on Schorsa Street were two more and another on the street on March 8. In total, ten people addressed the maniac to the center of the fight against AIDS. Everyone immediately took a blood test.

"All animals are equal, but some more equal than others" J. Orwell As Fr. Andrey (Kuraev), "in Europe, one of the largest myths is now dying in Europe - the myth of human rights." In general, he said correctly. The riots in France are the agony of this very myth, simply manifested on such a significant scale. "The official beginning of" sad events in the suburbs of Paris was the death of two Muslim teenagers.