Occasionally he would appear at a convenience store in the Corniche. Here the photographer waylaid him. But he doesn't want to be photographed! A hussar who is not killed at thirty is not a hussar, but a piece of trash, said Marshal Lann, who was killed when he was 39. A writer who is not silent for ten years in a row is not a writer, but a windbag, Salinger might say; he remained silent for half a century.

The job of a writer (poet, artist) seems extremely simple and understandable these days. Artistic creativity is explained using several myths - simple and simple explanations for quite complex things. Simple explanations, as always happen, are successful, but do not help to understand the essence of art, but only obscure it. The most common myth is that the artist “expresses himself” in his works. This “self-expression” is a common place in ideas about art.

Luda deliberately celebrated her thirtieth birthday alone, but guests still came: the Strangler and the Face Eater. The Strangler threw a garrote around her neck and twisted it until Luda’s eyes bulged out of her sockets and her tongue fell out, and the Face Eater ate Luda’s crimson face shiny with lard clean. Of course, it was an unpleasant incident, but at work Lyuda was loved, loved by her boss, and sometimes used sexually. But his patience ran out.

Once upon a time there lived Ivan the Fool and his wife, Vasilisa the Beautiful, on the edge of a dense forest. And Ivan decided to digitalize this dense forest so that every forest animal could go online and take a selfie. I took the selfie stick seedlings, put them in a basket and went into the forest. He goes, looking for a place with better growth. And in the middle of the forest there was a low spot where a puddle always formed after the rains.

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