Those who follow my Flickr have already learnt that I fulfilled my long-term dream of going out to ski. Frankly, I don’t think I’d get as much pleasure from skiing indoors at the Trafford ...
We must not think of a woman’s body as a covering for bones; it should not be fat though it should certainly be rounded; it should be firm and slender without thereby appearing to be thin. F. B...
A BMW ad, courtesy of MyBroadband.co.za Any trace of literariness in an advertisement is fatal to its success. Advertisement writers may not be lyrical, or obscure, or in any way esoteric. They must b...
About the time I was writing the post quoting the passage on where all ruin starts, a terrorist attack was carried out in Domodedovo airport in the south of Moscow. To think about it, between 7th and ...
The passage from The Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov that you are about to see in the video (in Russian, the English translation is below), has long been known by heart. When I was 16, I loved the ...
One cannot see what is too close. Time passes and fame comes. All of a sudden people realise that this person was not only a painter, but – for goodness sake! – he was a great painter. Do ...
I strolled up and down several streets in one of my favourite parts of central Moscow; in one of them, Starosadsky Pereulok that also houses the State Historical Library, stands this beautiful Luthera...
The secrets of the Egyptians were secrets also for the Egyptians themselves. Slavoj Zizek, In Defense of Lost Causes...
Yesterday I had a walk in the centre of my native city; I was walking past the Church of the Assumption of Our Lady in Pechatniki, a beautiful building that had seen several stages in its development,...
You may be able to convince me that I am wrong, but you can’t tell me that I am wrong without convincing me. Fidel Castro to Nikita Khruschev during the Caribbean crisis...