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Charles Bukowski
“it never happened
but it seemed like
there were times when rot
stopped
waited like a streetcar
at a signal.”
Charles Bukowski, Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame

Tatyana Tolstaya
“That's what poems are for, so you don't understand a thing.”
Tatyana Tolstaya, The Slynx

Mikhail Lermontov
“I love enemies, though not in the Christian way. They amuse me, excite my blood. Being always on one’s guard, catching every glance, the significance of every word, guessing at intentions, frustrating their plots, pretending to be tricked, and suddenly, with a shove, upturning the whole enormous and arduously built edifice of their cunning and schemes—that’s what I call life.”
Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time

Victor Pelevin
“Comrades in the struggle! The position of modern man is not merely lamentable; one might even say that there is no condition, because man hardly exists. Nothing exists to which one could point and say: 'There, that is Homo Zapiens.' HZ is simply the residual luminescence of a soul fallen asleep; it is a film about the shooting of another film, shown on a television in an empty house.”
Victor Pelevin, Homo Zapiens

Victor Pelevin
“In itself a wall on which a panoramic view of a non-existent world is drawn does not change. But for a great deal of money you can buy a view from the window with a painted sun, a sky-blue bay and a calm evening. Unfortunately the author of this fragment will again be Ed—but even this is not important, because the very window the view is bought for is also only drawn in. Then perhaps the wall on which it is drawn is a drawing too? But drawn by whom and on what?

He raised his eyes to the wall of the toilet as though in hopes of an answer there. Traced on the tiles in red felt-tip pen were the jolly, rounded letters of a brief slogan: "Trapped? Masturbate!”
Victor Pelevin, Homo Zapiens

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