The Life, the Universe, and Everything
Love may be blind but marriage is a real eye-opener.
It is a Saturday, a sunny and cold day in Toronto. In 1993, February 6th was a Saturday, it was sunny in the morning and cold, the roads were slippery (talk about signs!!!), but then it warmed up enough for a real snow storm in the [...]
“Our imagination flies — we are its shadow on the earth.” (Vladimir Nabokov)
“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.” (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
“Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.” (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
“I [...]
Victor Pelevin “The Sacred Book of Werewolf”
In speaking of intelligentsia’s debt of guilt to the nation, he kept using two terms that I thought were synonyms – ‘intelligentsia’ and ‘intellectuals’. After a while I just had to ask:
‘But what difference is there between a member of the intelligentsia and an intellectual?”
‘There’s a very big difference,’ [...]
from “Monumental Propaganda” by Vladimir Voinovich
They say that an individual’s mental capabilities are determined by the weight of his brain. But a big brain can only be contained in a beg head. Turgenev had a big head. And his brain, accordingly, weighed as much as two loaves of bread. Lenin had an even bigger head, [...]
from “Monumental Propaganda” by Vladimir Voinovich
[…] I told the Admiral about my conversations with Shubkin. I told him honestly that when I argued with Shubkin I sometimes felt that I was right, but I couldn’t prove it because he crushed me with his authority. And the fact that he was older, and that he’d been [...]
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