http://www.reuters.com/article/artsNews ... 3220080803
LONDON (Reuters) - Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Soviet dissident writer and Nobel literature prize winner, has died aged 89, the Interfax news agency reported on Sunday.
RIP Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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RIP Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
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Re: RIP Alexander Solzhenitsyn
ya know, your avatar is not well suited to RIP posts. For Solzhenitsyn I hope he enjoyed the satisfaction of out living his enemies.Bob Juch wrote:http://www.reuters.com/article/artsNews ... 3220080803
LONDON (Reuters) - Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Soviet dissident writer and Nobel literature prize winner, has died aged 89, the Interfax news agency reported on Sunday.
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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I was going to post the RIP and I saw it was here already.
Wow-not a surprise, but what a writer and man.
I slogged my way through all 3 volumes of Gulag. IIRC-the way I saw it
1)Dealt with the trials and legal machinations.
2) Dealt more specifically with the camps-my personal favorite of the 3-There are passages in this book (and his writings in general) that I will think of fondly until Alzheimer's takes them away.
3) Dealt with the aftermath and resistance.
I also read August 1914 and November 1916. Very wordy and hard to keep straight-but IMHO-I probably will read them again (at least August)
Wow-not a surprise, but what a writer and man.
I slogged my way through all 3 volumes of Gulag. IIRC-the way I saw it
1)Dealt with the trials and legal machinations.
2) Dealt more specifically with the camps-my personal favorite of the 3-There are passages in this book (and his writings in general) that I will think of fondly until Alzheimer's takes them away.
3) Dealt with the aftermath and resistance.
I also read August 1914 and November 1916. Very wordy and hard to keep straight-but IMHO-I probably will read them again (at least August)