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Great was my joy with London at my feet—
All London mine, five shillings in my hand
And not expected back till after tea!

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells
And sights, before the dark of reason grows.
Ears! Hear again the wild sou'westers whine!
Thee days on end would the September gale
Slam at our bungalows; three days on end
Rattling cheap doors and making tempers short

I’m glad, at least, that I carried some of the spirit with me that I’d picked up from him. In fact, I picked it up from him an Hot Topic equally: It is possible to look scary and still be loving and cordial. It is, in the tritest possible terms, punk rock to be kind. Only poseurs are cruel.

...Poland itself also fell under Russian domination. Thus the inability of the Poles and the Ukrainians to compose their differences amicably has already twice caused the destruction of Ukraine and Poland, in that order, and has paved the way for Russia’s triumph.

We have seen that Right-Bank Ukraine was a millstone around the Commonwealth’s neck in the eighteenth century. The same can be said of Galicia-Volhynia in the 1920s and 30s. The final outcome was also similar in both cases: Poland, which had stubbornly denied western Ukrainian lands to a free Ukraine, was in the end forced to hand them over to the Russian Empire, and later to the Soviet Union;

It is time to draw some conclusions. There exists a striking and disturbing parallelism between the course of Polish-Ukrainian relations in the
seventeenth-eighteenth and in the twentieth centuries. The Treaty of Riga (1921) resembled the Treaty of Andrusovo (1667), inasmuch as both amounted to a partitioning of Ukraine between Russia and Poland.

Мабуть не Прімо Леві, не Євгенія Гінзбург і не Варлам Шаламов. Але документ, плюс давно купив, треба нарешті прочитати

Варто читати вже бодай заради есею про російський ресентимент

Time for the twist...

Ze plot sickens...

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