Library Archive 5
Literary contributions
Pushkin - duel http://eskify.com/10-breathtaking-famous-duels-history/
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I was living in an idealized world.
I was living in what I’d made up.
Snow bunnies and
Laughing lassos
I was living in the soup that is idealism.
Turn over the paperweight; it snows.
We showed miniature magic lantern shows.
Pick up the computer
Microchips connect
High-tech does not work much better than the first “magic lantern” shows, if we consider that the criterion is fascination.
We have been at work building Potemkin Villages since, Well—Potemkin.
In Russian cities, with their “onion domes,” Prince Kropotkin wove anarchist fantasies and provided the corrective to the biological sciences as they then existed: Animals do cooperate! ///https://tinyurl.com/2bu679ks\\
Russian books; cities of fantasy; no place left to go; members of the nobility challenge each other to duels. ///http://eskify.com/10-breathtaking-famous-duels-history/\\
Russia and Ukraine staring one another down.
In Miami, Fl. some graffiti artist puts up a new one.
I looked again at all the duels. It is on the "Esky.com" link. Only one is not in the nineteenth century (or close, I am not saying I am sure, okay?) and that one is not really a duel, it is the story of a gladiator in ancient Rome. So dueling is a recent phenomenon, a way people have of (I suppose) working things out in capitalistic societies or societies ending their days as aristocratic societies and beginning the transition to the next phase, capitalist or (in the case of Russia) socialist/Left.