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Happy birthday!
This is probably unique but I want to wish happy birthday to my mentor; Fyodor Mihailovich Dostoevsky. Unfortunately, he died in 1881 so we will celebrate his 186th birthday without him. Farewell my friend; and rest in peace!
Firstly, we will drink tea. After that, we will read Grand Inquisitor, then conversation between Raskolnikov and Porfiry Petrovich and some other great parts of his opus. After that, will drink some vodka with old bread, to relive life of great 19th history minds. We would finish with his famous quotes; until we wouldn't know what to say. Then, we would sit in silence for 10min and then we would quietly leave, with Mozart's Requiem in behind.
At thunder and tempest, At the world's coldheartedness,
During times of heavy loss And when you're sad
The greatest art on earth Is to seem uncomplicatedly gay.
To get things clear, they have to firstly be very unclear. But if you get them too quickly, you probably got them wrong.
If you need me urgent, send me a PM
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Vincit Qui Se Vincit
Last edited by Virgil; 11-11-2007 at 07:51 PM.
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Not politically correct
On this date we raise a glass to Fyodor Mihailovich Dostoevsky,
A writer of rare acclaim—stood the tests of time rather well has he!
Still each time I read The Brothers Karmazov, as I do now and then—
And hit those tongue-twisting Russian names, I have to bleep right over them…
Pendragon
Some of us laugh
Some of us cry
Some of us smoke
Some of us lie
But it's all just the way
that we cope with our lives...
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laudator temporis acti
^ a bit of a Sherlockian look, Pen! 
I'm planning to read either Crime and Punishment or The Brothers Karamazov this year, so happy birthday indeed.
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."
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Ataraxia
Originally Posted by
Virgil
Well, if he hadn't died in 1881 he would still not be alive today.
But Happy Birthday Fyodor.
It's been a long time since I have read a Dostoevsky novel. I wish I had the time. I still think The Brothers Karamozov is in the top ten of all time novels ever written. Perhaps top five.
If Elvis is not dead, I really don't see why would Fyodor be? Top 1 definitely. Only Don Quixote is maybe near to Brothers.
Pen, nice poem!
At thunder and tempest, At the world's coldheartedness,
During times of heavy loss And when you're sad
The greatest art on earth Is to seem uncomplicatedly gay.
To get things clear, they have to firstly be very unclear. But if you get them too quickly, you probably got them wrong.
If you need me urgent, send me a PM
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