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Salman Rushdie as a Child in Bombay
Books · Observations · New York · Society · Nature
Exploitation of horses in big cities and Mayakovsky's verses on a fallen horse
In New York, Conscientious People Are Outraged at the Cruel Treatment of Horses, an Important Part of the City's Tourist and Entertainment Industry. Incidentally, I am sure this is a common problem for all big cities where horse labour is exploited for amusement: the wretched animals work from
NB! · Cinema · Books · Observations
Since Fantômas is returning, perhaps one of our producers will have the wit to buy the rights to Vil Lipatov's novella and screenplays about the village detective Aniskin?
Since Fantômas is returning, perhaps one of our producers will have the wit to buy the rights to Vil Lipatov's novella and screenplays about the village detective Aniskin? To my mind, against the backdrop of our seven-league strides into the radiant past, it could make quite an
NB! · Cinema · Books · Pop Culture
New Fantômas series to be based more closely on novels by Souvestre and Allain
Fantômas is to return to the screen as the hero of a new series. The new holders of the rights to adapt the novels about the first European superhero assure us that the image of the legendary hooded villain will now be far closer to the original texts of Pierre
Books · Observations · Mores
Russian poem of the early 17th century about a sister's sinful love for her brother
Found a Russian poem from the early seventeenth century, that is, the end of the Time of Troubles, describing a sister's sinful love for her brother. What is more, the sister does not even fear public censure and is ready to seek her brother's love in
Books · Paris · Humour
Perhaps Teeth Would Be Better After All?
Memories of Auteuil, 1881, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Books · Observations · Humour
Captain Haddock from the Tintin comics and his dislike of tourism
"Travel? What next? I hate tourism, the industry of shipping people who would be better off at home to places that would be better off without them." Captain Haddock really is my favourite comic-book hero of all time. He lives in his castle of white stone, recalls
Books · Observations
Inside, we are all the same age
Gertrude Stein. I wonder whether she meant that inwardly we are all the same age as one another? That would be a little odd. Or that inwardly each of us remains at one age, that is, an unchanging one? By the sense of it, the second seems more likely. Inside,
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I doubt I am the only one to have run into the problem: the state and size of the home library are such that no book can be found in it, so it is easier to buy the edition you need than to hunt for it at home
In the Press · Books · Observations
The Parnassian Mockingbird Turns 6!
In all these years I could count on one hand the days when I failed to post in the Mockingbird. It is not merely a community of cultural history or some new medium: the Parnassian Mockingbird has become a self-sufficient intellectual phenomenon with a style, a character and a
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"Pull all the faces you like behind my back; my backside is looking at you"
Gustave Flaubert to Louise Colet