After all, we are just living in the Hornburg.
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Friday, February 24, 2012
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Volga Boatmen by Ilya Repin
Volga! Volga! In the spring your torrents
Cannot flood the fields as much
As our people's awful pain
Floods our land-
-Nikolay Nekrasov, "Thoughts at a Vestibule", 1858.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Monday, February 20, 2012
Rum, Cigars & Hemingway
I have just returned from a weekend trip down to a relative's second home in the Florida Keys, Key Largo to be exact. It was quite relaxing and a much needed break from University and the accounting office I work at. I was able to enjoy rare intellectual discussion with some cousins I had not seen in a while over the tangible delicacies of Havana Club rum and Romeo y Julieta Cuban cigars. When I was able to get away from the discussion and enjoy the refreshing breeze paired with some alone time on the back porch by the water, I managed to read Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. Not only was the book more than appropriate for the setting, but also the fact that reading a book written by Hemingway in his beloved kingdom (or perhaps his "Conch Republic"?) made the experience that much more treasurable.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Peace Inspires Hatred
"Ah, those people who love peace! They are those who are worthy of the hate of patriots." -Sabino Arana.
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