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Victor Pelevin. “T”. Light’s Fate.

 
 Source: http://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2007/04/gift-light.jpg
Виктор Пелевин «Т», page 89
Судьба света
Ты не строка в Книге Жизни, а её читатель.  Тот свет, который делает страницу видимой.  Но суть всех земных историй в том, что этот вечный свет плетётся за пачкотнёй ничтожных авторов и не в силах возвыситься до своей настоящей судьбы – до тех пор, пока об этом не будет [...]

Conversation with T (he) Pain.

 
Trying to stick to the theme – LOVE.  I fell in love but again not with a person, but with an illusion.  I will see how February turns out.  I made a resolution – to disappear from his horizon starting February 1st.  Keeping resolutions is, of course, much harder than making them.  So, we talked [...]

A Candle Burned

 
Boris Pasternak (1890 – 1960)
 
 

  
Winter’s Night
 
 
Blizzards were blowing everywhere
Throughout the land.
A candle burned upon the table,
A candle burned.
 
 
As midgets in the summer fly
Towards a flame,
The snowflakes from the yard swarmed to
The window pane.
 
 
And, on the glass, bright snowy rings
And arrows formed.
A candle burned upon the table,
A candle burned.
 
 
And on the white illumined ceiling
Shadows were cast,
As [...]

Measuring Silence…

 
Boris Pasternak (1890 – 1960)
 
A song from the film “Fate’s Irony”.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjRbmBXywH4
 
 

 
***
 
There’ll be no one in the house
Save for twilight. All alone,
Winter’s day seen in the space that’s
Made by curtains left undrawn.
 
 
Only flash-past of the wet white
Snowflake clusters, glimpsed and gone.
Only roofs and snows, and save for
Roofs and snow – no one at home.
 
 
Once more, frost [...]