Yesterday I received, for the first time in my life, a fee for a public appearance

Yesterday I received, for the first time in my life, a fee for a public appearance. In the form of a bottle of wine and a bottle of whisky, admittedly. I shall not hide that it was unexpected and very pleasant that the proprietor of the establishment, seated at the next table, appreciated my lecture on Odysseus, delivered to my friends and, as it turned out, to certain other late-lingering tipplers 🥰 Evidently it is all down to the expressiveness with which I hold forth on matters that genuinely trouble me 😬

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

Yesterday I received, for the first time in my life, a fee for a public appearance

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s