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08-03-2008, 09:50 PM
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Rep Power: 15 | | Sorry to hear of his passing. But no need for me to look for the book, I can't read Russian, either. 
* Plus it would probably be WAY over my head.  |
08-03-2008, 09:53 PM
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Originally Posted by William Joyce  | One of my heroes.
"The Oak and the Calf" is my all time favorite book. |
08-03-2008, 10:02 PM
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Originally Posted by William Joyce | Pretty easy to see why they won't sell it and I don't think it's because he was Russian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003...5/russia.books
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08-03-2008, 10:11 PM
| | Yes we can! | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Va. Beach, Va.
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Rep Power: 14 | | | From the first page of "The Oak and the Calf".....
"Underground is where you expect to find revolutionaries. But not writers.
For the writer intent on truth, life never was, never is(and never will be!), easy: his like have suffered every imaginable harassment---defamation, duels, a shattered family life, financial ruin, or lifelong unrelieved poverty, the madhouse, jail. While those who wanted for nothing, like Lev Tolstoy, have suffered worst torment in the claws of conscience."
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08-03-2008, 11:29 PM
|  | Massage Bored P'wner | | Join Date: Mar 2008
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Rep Power: 83 | | | Matryona's Home is a great short story.
I think it's kind of amusing though, that he bitched and complained about the USSR, emigrated to the US and then bitched and complained about the US.
RIP, cranky old man, |
08-03-2008, 11:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Anguille Matryona's Home is a great short story.
I think it's kind of amusing though, that he bitched and complained about the USSR, emigrated to the US and then bitched and complained about the US.
RIP, cranky old man, | I always think of something he said about America. I have to paraphrase.
He said that our big cities with their gleaming skyscrapers seem to imply that nothing bad can happen here. But bad things can happen here.
When 9/11 happened, I thought of him saying that. |
08-04-2008, 07:00 AM
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08-04-2008, 07:29 AM
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Rep Power: 2 | | | I have read a lot of Russian authors but never him. Boy, what a life he lived and what crazy and cruel events he witnessed!
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