• • You can’t out-scare a parrot, just as you can’t out-bug a person, and you can’t out-bug a bug - each of us is an infinite thing within ourselves. • *** • What came first: the word, the context or the text? But in fact, there was a subtext at the beginning... • *** • If you want to create something, enter the void, because everything is born from there.

Here, for example, about the crisis of our days. Or rather, not like that, not about the crisis. After all, a crisis (ancient Greek κρίσις - solution; turning point) is about growth, and where to grow from under this asphalt filled with plastic on top of glass wool is not very clear. When did it all happen, when did it all begin? Why, instead of masterpieces and even statements, are we surrounded by indigestible content and poorly understood technology?

The story of the crucified boy forced thousands of people to go to war in Ukraine. On posters from World War II, the enemy puts a knife to the throat of a little girl. Or a boy. Doesn't matter. The image of a cruel offender is forever imprinted in the memory. In some game, a child always dies, so that we feel compassion and are more quickly imbued with the tragedy of the heroes. Empathy literally deprives us of all feelings except compassion and aggression.

Panorama of the city of Revashol, where the game takes place The text was published in the telegram channel The first time I screamed with happiness while playing Disco Elysium was when, during my first playthrough, I talked to a character named Joyce about the discovery of the Insulindian Isola (a cluster of islands) and was given the opportunity to think a thought called The Insulindian Miracle.

© Natalia Romay / Flickr / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 1. If migration restrictions extended to the realm of dreams. Walk into dreams located nearby. These dreams have a bad reputation; they are informers of reality. They resemble the garden that our windows overlook.

Katerina Marueva is co-author of the podcast “Book calls are divine.” “art critic, feminist, (non)activist, and other various words in -ka,” is how her friend and podcast co-host introduces her. I talked with Katya about the books in her life: about how a small but proud podcast is created, about caring for yourself as a reader, and about the experience of self-publishing — In one of the podcast episodes, you talked a lot about your attitude to the text.