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SIGHTINGS: Valeria Novodvorskaya on VN birthday (in Russian)
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Victor Fet sends the following link and translation:
[The Prophetic Sirin Bird] (in Russian)
http://www.grani.ru/opinion/m.149987.html
[... Cincinnatus was sentenced to death for individualism, for not wishing to become transparent to the mob and to fuse with it.
Today, is not the majority still excited with the "tender sun of publicity"?
...Nabokov is always with us. I posted his prison rules on my Lefortovo cell wall in May 1991.
Today, these rules can be posted over the entire docile, groveling in dust country.
How are tender executioners of Khodorkovsky and Bakhmina better than M'sieur Pierre?
...Nabokov also tells us what to do: do not play their games with them, do not participate, do not submit... and their world will crumble, and things will become visible through a transparent executioner, and we will find our "way in that direction where, among dust and fallen things, exist beings akin to us" ]
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[The Prophetic Sirin Bird] (in Russian)
http://www.grani.ru/opinion/m.149987.html
[... Cincinnatus was sentenced to death for individualism, for not wishing to become transparent to the mob and to fuse with it.
Today, is not the majority still excited with the "tender sun of publicity"?
...Nabokov is always with us. I posted his prison rules on my Lefortovo cell wall in May 1991.
Today, these rules can be posted over the entire docile, groveling in dust country.
How are tender executioners of Khodorkovsky and Bakhmina better than M'sieur Pierre?
...Nabokov also tells us what to do: do not play their games with them, do not participate, do not submit... and their world will crumble, and things will become visible through a transparent executioner, and we will find our "way in that direction where, among dust and fallen things, exist beings akin to us" ]
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