When you are looking for interesting paintings at European auctions, sometimes you come across works by Russian artists that are often not even signed (the maximum can be written: signature in Cyrillic), however, their significance does not depend in any way on their inconspicuousness in the sale. If you contact the auction house directly and request a photograph of the signature, it may turn out that what is being sold is not a passable item by an interesting artist.

When I began to prepare for the present symposium, I realized that I had misread the title that preceded it. Perhaps due to inattention, instead of “The States of “Theory”” ( states in the plural and theory in quotes), I read “The State of Theory” ( state in the singular and theory without quotes). And I thought that the answer to this question is: What is the state of theory today? - was self-evident and obvious, hic et nunc . Isn't the state of the theory now and hereafter California?

─ Dark matters are sewn together with white threads... *** ─ Not every ruble contains a hundred kopecks! ─ the suspicious one said and counted, counted, counted the pennies... *** ─ Whoever thinks about the disadvantages lengthens them... *** ─ Some books are worse than a bathhouse, you sweat over ideas that are not in them... *** ─ Anyone who wears a hat does not have fresh thoughts. *** ─ If Napoleons are at every step ─ be Pushkin...

I am grateful to the Indo-European gods that they gave me the opportunity to live in the Upper City, not below, in the swamps of Obolon and the witching lowlands of Podol, but in a successful place from a tactical and sacred point of view. The tactical success of the situation lies in the fact that the lower part of the city can be shot from the Radiogorka area or the Podolsk junction. If the Ukrainian BLM starts, then we will lose Podil in the first seconds of the clashes.