My wife doesn't want to grow up. I take a bath, and she sinks my boats. Woody Allen The day is so cloudy with slush in my thoughts, tears of rain have spilled into the wet soil with a crust of ice, it will sprout when the time to console itself rings. The firefly of the flames of the night light attracts, slowly, allowing you to leisurely examine the characters inside the hostel camouflaged in gray or under clouds with stars in the dark. It’s funny, about this...

The word “postmodernism” has long become almost indecent, if not completely abusive, in the circle of domestic intellectual culture. Often this title includes everything that is unexplained and inexplicable, in principle incomprehensible, but possessing the features of undoubted modernity. Modernity is flashy, arrogant, baseless.

Human, too human, inhuman, superhuman (thanatological study) To them from the unknown distance The wonderful elf has descended... Balmont Despite the fact that so much has been said about death... but in fact, in fact, a person always talks about death, no matter what he talks about - in everyday life, in literature, and in art, nothing is known about death. Absolutely nothing. Complete darkness, ignorance and empty.

Now I cherished only evil thoughts Edgar Poe Over the course of my life, I have reread Edgar Allan Poe’s story “The Black Cat” no less than fifteen times. How to explain such an attractiveness of this strange narrative is sometimes difficult for me; it so mixes the mystical and the ethical, the infernal and the human, the reliable and the irrational, the eerie and the interesting, that in itself it is some kind of transcendental masterpiece for which there is no exact literary name.

Trolleybus floating back from the hills and towards - applied to the validator - vale, fold it in four, in half, push it up your sleeve or Catullus bird along the banks let me go along the avenue, snowless air November light - oblivion is translated like this restless tongue. November 2019

The essay was written based on the author’s report of the same name at the 9th meeting of the Academy of Trustees (Moscow), December 7, 2012. Edition 2014. The answer is in the circle of light “I, stupid and unreasonable, would in no way want to sow a false thought in you, as if I think that I possess some truth hitherto unknown to you. No way! Rather, out of an unknown and incomprehensible concern for me, she possesses me by her will, bringing me to you. And...