Marina Tsvetaeva, from "Bus", Selected Poems (trans. Elaine Feinstein, with Simon Franklin) [ID'd]
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I lied I don’t like sex. Put your clothes back on. Let’s discuss Dostoevsky.
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in general i agree that encouraging unsourced twitter hysteria is a bad thing but there is absolutely a media blackout happening in ohio rn and posting links to the occasional news article about it doesnt necessarily disprove that. this is a major, entirely man-made and preventable environmental catastrophe that should be plastered across the news 24/7 but that didnt even get 10 minutes of weekend coverage on the most “left” liberal channels like pbs. this shit is being actively sidelined by alien balloon hysteria bc it’s a direct result of the conditions rail workers were set to strike over until the millionaire railroad bosses colluded with biden and congress to forcibly prevent them from doing so. the fact that people in east palestine are being told everything is safe and fine while fish float up dead in their rivers and streams is not invention or overstatement. meanwhile buttigieg still hasnt said shit about any of this and apparently has no plans to reinstate baseline safety regulations to prevent this from happening again in the future.
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Arguably one of the funniest ways to begin a novel
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MIKHAIL GEORGIEVICH ABAKUMOV (Russian/Soviet, 1948 -2010)
Autumn in Totma, 1998
© 2016-2022 Soviet Art / Abakumov
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Imagine the sh*t Raskolnikov would have done if he had death note
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dostoevsky was so funny in the sense that he’ll start a story/novel by saying “and please forgive me if i’ve omitted important details or facts, but if i mention everything with full explanation i would fill a very large volume!” and then describes every little thing, emotion, feeling and thought his characters are having like yes king !! go off the rails !! oh you’re saying 400 pages aren’t enough for your little story?? no worries!! cause we don’t mind reading a 700+ page retelling of a story !! people in their teens and 20 somethings yearn for your writings !!!
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a pain...a slow sweet pain—a sting—and you wish it would go deeper, hurt more...Then, slowly—sunshine emerges.
Yevgeny Zamyatin, We (trans. Natasha Randall)
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“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, from “Notes from the Underground”, published c. april 1864.
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reminder that accounts who talk about "denazification" in a positive light are russian bootlickers. "denazification" is what the russians call their invasion of ukraine. as in, they are trying to justify the genocide they are committing in a country with a jewish president, ffs, by saying that they are simply wiping out "ukrainian nazis" or some other bullshit. don't buy it.
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