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| Friday, November 20th, 2009 | | 10:20 am |
The Shakespeare Quartos Archive is a new digital collection that features pre-1642 editions of William Shakespeare’s plays. Here you can view full cover-to-cover digital reproductions and transcriptions of thirty-two copies of the five earliest editions of the play Hamlet. | | Thursday, November 19th, 2009 | | 10:38 am |
learning hindi...
लेकिन मेरी घरी कहा है (lekin meri ghari kaha hei) - Но где мои часы? - But where is my watch? | | Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 | | 11:24 am |
Уюта!
роман «У» - Всеволод Иванов пьеса «Ю» - Ольга Мухина роман «Т» - Виктор Пелевин повесть «А» - Владимир Маканин 
| | Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 | | 11:03 am |
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| | Monday, November 16th, 2009 | | 10:11 pm |
The complicated variation
Of Lepidoptera affords
a fascinating occupation
for proletarians and lords.
V.V. Nabokov, 1942
Разнообразное сложенье
чешуекрылых мотыльков
уготовляет услажденье
для королей и бедняков
пер. В.В. Набокова. (from here)
Maestri Michelangelo - Cupid Led by Butterflies | | Sunday, November 15th, 2009 | | 12:26 am |
| | Saturday, November 14th, 2009 | | 11:43 pm |
| | Thursday, November 12th, 2009 | | 6:11 pm |
| | Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 | | 9:53 am |
Dostoevsky is 188 today
From New Yorker: In the course of the twentieth century, capital punishment was abolished in much of the world, including all of Western Europe, but not in the United States. Germany, Austria, and Italy stopped executing criminals after the Second World War. Beginning in the nineteen-fifties, other European countries began limiting capital punishment. Denmark abolished it entirely in 1978; the Netherlands, Australia, and New Zealand in the nineteen-eighties; Britain, Canada, and Belgium in the nineteen-nineties. In many parts of the United States, the death penalty was, if not outlawed, abandoned.... Not so elsewhere. Since 1976, more than a thousand people have been executed in the United States, a third of them in Texas.
From "The Idiot" by Dostoevsky: To kill for murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands. Anyone murdered by brigands, whose throat is cut at night in a wood, or something of that sort, must surely hope to escape till the very last minute. There have been instances when a man has still hoped for escape, running or begging for mercy after his throat was cut. But in the other case all that last hope, which makes dying ten times as easy, taken away for certain. There is the sentence, and the whole awful torture lies in the fact that there is certainly no escape, and there is no torture in the world more terrible. You may lead a soldier out and set him facing the cannon in battle and fire at him and he'll still hope; but read a sentence of certain death over that same soldier, and he will go out of his mind or burst into tears. Who can tell whether human nature is able to bear this without madness?
Убивать за убийство несоразмерно большее наказание чем самое преступление. Убийство по приговору несоразмерно ужаснее, чем убийство разбойничье. Тот, кого убивают разбойники, режут ночью, в лесу или как-нибудь, непременно еще надеется, что спасется, до самого последнего мгновения. Примеры бывали, что уж горло перерезано, а он еще надеется, или бежит, или просит. А тут, всю эту последнюю надежду, с которою умирать в десять раз легче, отнимают наверно; тут приговор, и в том, что наверно не избегнешь, вся ужасная-то мука и сидит, и сильнее этой муки нет на свете. Приведите и поставьте солдата против самой пушки на сражении и стреляйте в него, он еще все будет надеяться, но прочтите этому самому солдату приговор наверно, и он с ума сойдет или заплачет. Кто сказал, что человеческая природа в состоянии вынести это без сумасшествия? - Идиот | | Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 | | 10:11 pm |
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| | Monday, November 9th, 2009 | | 11:45 am |
| | Friday, November 6th, 2009 | | 3:39 pm |
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| | Thursday, November 5th, 2009 | | 7:09 pm |
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reading about Baruch, Bento, and Benedictus.
  Rebecca Goldstein"The holy furor aroused by the name Spinoza is in contrast to the man’s predilection for peace and quiet. He confessed himself to have a horror of controversy. “I absolutely dread quarrels,” he wrote an acquaintance, explaining why he had declined to publish a work that contains some of the main themes of The Ethics, titled Short Treatise on God, Man, and His Well-Being. The signet ring he wore throughout his life was inscribed with the word caute, Latin for “cautiously,” and it was engraved with the image of a thorny rose, so that he signed his name sub rosa." "It is hard for us to appreciate the loneliness of Spinoza’s secularized spirituality. For an individual of the early seventeenth century to live outside the bounds of a religious identity—to aim to be perceived as neither Jew, nor Christian, nor Moslem—was all but unthinkable; and, in fact, Spinoza did continue to be called, with predictable disdain, a Jew." read an excerpt from the bookHarold Bloom's review of this book | | Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 | | 6:41 pm |
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 Автопортрет неизвестной | | Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 | | 8:02 pm |
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