words

Очень неприятно об этом думать, но это так и есть. Слова вылетают из головы, мысли не формулируются. Забыла, что “сырокопчёная” пишется с одним “н”. А ведь каждый день читаю и пишу, разговариваю, правда, мало.

“Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last time you are going to see o him until he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth”.
Mark Twain, “Connecticut Yankee in King’s Arthur’s Court”.
That’s why despite all my efforts, including living in Germany for 3 years, [...]

“It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one’s country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything. They had no vital lies.”
Edith Hamilton, “The Greek Way”

Actually I know it because it is quoted in one of the Russian novels of 19 century. Probably, in “Obryv” (”Precipice”) by Goncharov? Can’t remember.
Nun ist es Zeit, dass ich mit Verstand
Mich aller Thorheit entled’ge,
ich hab’ so lang, als ein Komödiant
Mit dir gespielt die Komödie.
Die prächt’gen Coulissen, sie waren bemalt
Im hoch romantischen stile,
Mein Rittermantel [...]

I’ve started to move my pages here. Here’s my poetry (in Russian). In English, I only wrote two poems. The first one, about 30 years ago, when I started to learn English in the school:
I
like
eat
meat
Not very grammatical, I admit. But the second one (I wrote it recently) is a perfection:
menstruation
and masturbation
Hope you like both.

I’ve never understood them. I mean - not sexual, but, you know. Emotional. When somebody says to you - “Oh, look, my father’s just died”, or “I’ve lost my purse”, or “Dude, I’m gay” -
- and you are supposed to reply “OH BABY!” -
- and open your arms -
- and you embrace each other crying [...]

Monday is the day when Sonya the House Pixie comes, and since I am asocial, I always try to be off as early as possible. First I went to buy new headphones. This time it’s Philips:

10 bucks at Amason, 10 euro here in Moscow (350 roubles). Then I went to Camille Albane - it’ been [...]

At dinner he talked to Martha. ‘It always goes back to sex. Sexual guilt of some kind or another.’
‘Shhh. Not before the children, Sigmund.’
‘They don’t understand - Besides, what if they did?’
A.Burgess, The End of the World News. An Entertainment

‘Forgive me, Professor Meynert,’ Freud said, ‘but how are they to be cured?’
‘They can’t be cured - only classified’.
A.Burgess, The End of the World News. An Entertainment