It was during the first visit of my old friend and teacher Michael to Moscow. We walked over the Oktaybrskaya Square and Michael looking at the prominent Kerbel’s Lenin melancholically dropped: “Mr. F&ck-up”. The perfect fit of this name stroked me then and later I tried to find an adequate Russian translation for it. In vain. Thirty years later the quest is over. They just use the English word. No sweat. Originally posted at otkaznik1.dreamwidth.org
It was during the first visit of my old friend and teacher Michael to Moscow. We walked over the Oktaybrskaya Square and Michael looking at the prominent Kerbel’s Lenin melancholically dropped: “Mr. F&ck-up”. The perfect fit of this name stroked me then and later I tried to find an adequate Russian translation for it. In vain. Thirty years later the quest is over. They just use the English word. No sweat. Originally posted at otkaznik1.dreamwidth.org
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Кажется я понял. Отношение выходцев из России к Америке и происходящим в ней событиям в значительной мере определяется степенью проникновения в их…
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Мы не любим тех, от кого вынужденно зависим. Поэтому тщеславие неотделимо от мизантропии.
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Провидческий гений Михаила Евграфовича: "О сем умолчу. Въехал в Глупов на белом коне, сжег гимназию и упразднил науки." (с)
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