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Originally Posted by dtb
You are so right. In the shower this evening (yes, Tolstoy has been showering with me...), I considered how AK was like a soap opera, minus the big hair and excessive cheese factor. But the reason those sorts of dramas (in whatever form, tv, novel, etc.) are popular, is that they speak to the human experience on some level.
How accurate the "translation" (from art-form to one's own life experience) differentiates the ok from the sublime.
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Fuck Russian "literature." Every other god damned word of it tranlates to "REVENGE!"
I was once asked to join a pool team of Russians perhaps because my name is "Russ" (outable?!).
I was flattered, but I had to decline. Lev and Vadim may have tried to move a couch into my office or some shit.
