The Life, the Universe, and Everything
Victor Pelevin “The Sacred Book of Werewolf”
Anyone who wishes to understand the nature of beauty should first of all ask himself: where is it located? Can we say that it is somewhere inside the woman who is considered beautiful? Can we say, for instance, that there is beauty in the features of her face? Or [...]
Victor Pelevin “The Sacred Book of Werewolf”
‘… Did Mikhalich give you the flower?’
‘Yes,’ I answered. ‘And he told me I should think about the meaning of the message. But I haven’t come up with anything. Maybe you can tell me yourself?’
He scratched his head. He seemed disconcerted by my question.
‘Do you know the folktale about [...]
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,’ [...]
Victor Pelevin “The Sacred Book of Werewolf”
People often argue about whether this world really exists, or is something like The Matrix movie. It’s a very stupid thing to argue about. All problems of this kind derive from the fact that people don’t understand the words they use. Before discussing the subject, the first thing people [...]
Victor Pelevin “The Sacred Book of Werewolf”
Love and tragedy go hand in hand. Homer and Euripides wrote about that, so did Stendhal and Oscar Wilde. And now it’s my turn.
Until I learned from my own experience what love is, I thought of it as a specific kind of pleasure that tailless monkeys can derive from [...]
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