Last Lines of Turgenev's "Father and Sons"

"Is their love, their hallowed selfless love, not omnipotent? Oh yes! However passionate, sinful and rebellious the heart hidden in the tomb, the flowers growing over it peep at us serenly with their innocent eyes; they speak to us not only of eternal peace, of the vast repose of 'indifferent' nature: they tell us, too, of everlasting reconsiliation and of life which has no end."

Mother Russia

Love from Rybinsk, Russia, upon Volga....

 ....beautifully Russian.....

Cake dream

"Fahrenheit 451"

Almost at the end of Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury writes:"There was a damn silly bird, called Phoenix back before Christ: every few hundered years he built a pyre and burned himself up. He must have been first cousin to Man. But every time he burnt himself up he sprang out of the ashes, he got himself born all over again. And it looks like we are doing the same thing, over and over, but we have one damn thing that Phoenix never had. We know the damn silly thing we just did. We know all the damn silly things we've done for a thousand years, and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it, some day we'll stop making the goddamn funeral pyres and jumping in the middle of them."

Together with a Man

Together with a man, do we see the world differently? Most of the time I am excited when I see him and when we do things and I am on alert and I don't stop expressing myself or saying what I think about what I see....that is all good.

What we should know about Ray Bradbury

Not only did he write more than 500 novels and stories, but also movie scripts, playes and poems.

I did not know that he wrote the actual screenplay of John Huston's Moby Dick (1956); he wrote scripts for Alfred Hitchcock ; he designed the interior of Spaceship Earth at Disney World. A crater on the moon is named Dandelion Crater in honour of his novel Dandelion Wine. Wow, what a legacy....

About Gorky

Simon Sebag comments in his book Young Stalin: " Gorky , later in life, would become the dictator's friend, shameful apologist, pathetic trophy and possibly victim." (p. 179)

Kurban Said

Kurban Said is another pseudonym of Lev Nussimbaum. He also wrote under the name of Essad Bey. He wrote "Ali and Nino" under the name of Kurban Said.

Young Stalin

Reading Young Stalin by Simon Sebag and what sticks to my head is that Koba or Soso (as he also was known as) was very enigmatic, charismatic, ambitious morose, malicious, self-conscious, "using any means if the ends justify them". (Young Stalin, 2007)