More specifically concerning: village
A view (29)
15 May 2010, around 23.23.
graves in old Goris.
a glance from Solomon
12 June 2010, around 6.49.
The hoopoe. At this stage, full of fervour, leapt forward the Hoopoe […] she had on her bosom the crest symbolizing her spiritual knowledge and on her head shone the crown of faith. […] She had the gift of divining underground sources of water and had directed the genii to them by pecking the earth. […]
smarts
7 June 2025, around 7.39.
For reasons I cannot quite explain to myself, I was reading Pevear and Volokhonsky’s translation of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin’s History of a Town (which they, with some cleverness, call Foolsburg). It is an amusing and somewhat mean-spirited novel; like many political novels, it loses something in being read outside of its time (or outside of the […]