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# As Virginia Woolf wrote in "The Waves", "Life is the mainspring of a watch
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/kak-napisala-v-volnakh-virdzhiniia-vulf-zhizn-eto-khodovaia-pruzhina-chasov/
- Published: 2025-09-07T19:31:09.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:28:49.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archaeology, Art, Books, Observations, Heritage

As Virginia Woolf wrote in "The Waves", “Life is the mainspring of a watch. How swiftly life runs from January to December! We are borne along by a stream of things, so familiar now that they cast no shadows. We float, we float…”. I hope that one more month in this channel with me has cast some shadows and impressions in your memory, but to revisit a few of the brightest moments, I propose that we run once more through some of the Parnassian Mockingbird’s publications from August, which has slipped away from us like a raindrop down a windscreen. Rubric: digest

📌 The rock paintings of [Shulgan-Tash](https://theparnassian.com/otechestvennaia-arkheologiia-otmechaet-sobytie-mirovoi-znachimosti-v-spisok-vsemirnogo-naslediia-iunesko-vnesen-rossiiskii-pamiatnik-naskalnye-risunki-v-peshchere-shulgan-tash-na-reke-b/?ref=theparnassian.com) have been recognised as a World Heritage site

📌 Archaeologists have discovered [elaborate tattoos](https://theparnassian.com/na-2500-letnei-mumii-iz-sibiri-obnaruzhili-slozhnye-tatuirovki/?ref=theparnassian.com) on a mummy of the Pazyryk culture

📌 How the designer Alessandro Michele furnished his home in a [fifteenth-century palazzo](https://theparnassian.com/ia-ne-uveren-chto-vremia-idiot-tak-kak-ego-opisyvaet-kalendar-ili-chasy/?ref=theparnassian.com) in Rome

📌 European libraries are recording [the disappearance of rare antiquarian editions](https://theparnassian.com/zachem-bibliotekam-nuzhny-otdely-redkikh-knig-i-pochemu-u-nikh-dolzhen-byt-osobyi-rezhim-poseshcheniia/?ref=theparnassian.com)

📌 A new form cut from old patterns. We assess the [GOST standard for school uniform](https://theparnassian.com/shkolnaia-forma-sootvetstvuiushchaia-novomu-gostu-razrabotannomu-minpromtorgom-sovmestno-s-minprosveshcheniia-vygliadit-kak-odezhda-iz-sovetskogo-kinematografa-1950-kh-godov/?ref=theparnassian.com) 25/26

📌 Bishop Tikhon against the passion for wine. The methods of [combating alcoholism in an eighteenth-century seminary](https://theparnassian.com/liubopytnye-podrobnosti-borby-episkopa-tikhona-protiv-seminaristov-brodiag-shalunov-i-vkhodiashchikh-v-nevozderzhivannost-gnusnoi-podozritelnoi-i-pianstvennoi-strasti-v-1770-e-gody/?ref=theparnassian.com)

📌 On the [lodge of the Order of the Pug,](https://theparnassian.com/v-xviii-veke-mopsy-byli-nastolko-populiarny-v-evrope-chto-odna-iz-masonskikh-lozh-stala-nazyvatsia-ordenom-mopsa-2/?ref=theparnassian.com) which in eighteenth-century Europe covered dark Masonic dealings with the sweet face of a pug

📌 Friends who were never destined to meet. [The monument to President Lincoln and Emperor Alexander II](https://theparnassian.com/rukopozhatie-avraama-linkolna-i-aleksandra-ii-skulptura-ustanovlennaia-v-parke-pered-muzeem-dom-burganova-na-sivtsevom-vrazhke/?ref=theparnassian.com)

📌 The story of the Russian opera prima donna Nadezhda Bulycheva, who [spoke out against slavery](https://theparnassian.com/imia-italianskoi-opernoi-pevitsy-russkogo-proiskhozhdeniia-nadezhdy-vasilevny-bulychevoi-1858-1921-navsegda-vpisano-zolotymi-bukvami-na-stranitsakh-vsemirnoi-istorii-borby-za-otmenu-rab/?ref=theparnassian.com) in Brazil

📌 The Vatican police removed a blogger for [improper behaviour in the cathedral.](https://theparnassian.com/politsiia-vatikana-vyvela-iz-sobora-sviatogo-petra-i-popytalas-arestovat-blogershu-kotoraia-tantsevala-vnutri-khrama-i-snimala-eto-na-video/?ref=theparnassian.com) We get to grips with main character syndrome

📌 Lessons in art history. Giorgione’s Tempest is [the first landscape](https://theparnassian.com/nebolshoi-peizazh-na-kholste-so-shtormom-tsygankoi-i-soldatom/?ref=theparnassian.com) [in the history of painting](https://theparnassian.com/nebolshoi-peizazh-na-kholste-so-shtormom-tsygankoi-i-soldatom/?ref=theparnassian.com)

📌 The Armenian Cathedral of the Holy Virgin in the city of Ani [is to be turned into a mosque](https://theparnassian.com/soobshchaetsia-chto-armianskii-kafedralnyi-sobor-sviatoi-devy-v-gorode-ani-stolitse-srednevekovoi-bagratidskoi-armenii-na-territorii-sovremennoi-vostochnoi-turtsii-na-granitse-s-armenie/?ref=theparnassian.com) after restoration

📌 Leo Tolstoy and [his love of cycling](https://theparnassian.com/lev-tolstoi-nauchilsia-katatsia-na-velosipede-kogda-emu-bylo-67-let/?ref=theparnassian.com)

📌 And of course the [words](https://theparnassian.com/glupo-dumat-chto-nuzhno-prochitat-vse-kuplennye-knigi-kak-i-glupo-kritikovat-tekh-kto-pokupaet-bolshe-knig-chem-smozhet-prochitat/?ref=theparnassian.com) of the unforgettable maestro Scrooge McDuck on great books