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Chill Winds Still Blow, by Alexander Pushkin

14-Jun-10

Jānsath A literal translation of the poem mentioned so often in The Brothers Karamazov, source of the phrase “sticky little leaves.”  Translation by Stephen Boykewich. The cold winds are still blowing And carrying the morning frost. The first little flowers Have just appeared through the spring thaw holes, As though from some miraculous, waxy kingdom, The […]

The Allusions in the Brothers Karamazov.

28-Mar-10

http://thehistoryhacker.com/2013/08/14/the-civil-war-a-lecture-part-one/ Let me start with the end of the first chapter of The Brothers Karamazov: Finally she fled the house and ran away from Fyodor Pavlovich with a destitute seminarian, leaving the three-year-old Mitya in his father’s hands.  Fyodor Pavlovich immediately set up a regular harem in his house and gave himself to the most unbridled […]

Spring!

23-Mar-10

While it’s certainly likely that we’ll have a bit more snow – and I see 20 degree temperatures in the forecast – the snow is now almost all gone.  Yesterday it rained all day, and I watched it eagerly, thinking – “It’s rain!  Water!  From the sky!  Not snow!  What a miracle!”  I would look […]