Unrequited love causes either irritation (the person has nothing to do) or sympathy. Scientology puts it simply: it is a problem that needs to be solved: “The fact that she loves him, and he loves another, or he loves her, but she doesn’t love him - these are completely ordinary everyday things. How does this happen? Let’s say: he himself is fat, but he likes thin ones; and she, perhaps, is slim, just the kind he likes. But she also likes slim ones.

In the mid-2000s, there was a bitter joke in Russia: “The worst dream of the Russian intelligentsia: “DOM-2” on the “Culture” channel.” To paraphrase the joke, about the modern situation with the “interpretation of history” we can say this: “The worst dream of Russian historians: the works of Starikov and Fomenko are recognized as scientific.” Now we can recognize or not recognize this fact, but modern Russian society has long been on a kind of “historical” front line, and this battle for

I “The experience of reading “The Apotheosis of Groundlessness” by L.I. Shestov” - putting the name in quotation marks as if it were not my own, I am forced to stumble already at the first step, to stumble - in the most literal sense - from scratch. The experience of reading itself is mine, like everyone who reads, but does this mean it is unproblematic? There can be no certainty here: in the end, let everyone answer, but answering for everyone is a lost cause.

In the regular “Water Intake” section, Rech#port publishes a selection of poems by Sergei Vasiliev. Sergey Vasiliev was born in 1993 in Novosibirsk. In 2015, he graduated from NSU with a degree in philology and continues his studies there in the master’s program. Published in the almanac “Likbez”.