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bazarov
11-11-2007, 06:45 PM
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!

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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.

Virgil
11-11-2007, 07:48 PM
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!


Well, if he hadn't died in 1881 he would still not be alive today. :lol: But Happy Birthday Fyodor. :bday_2: 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.

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Pendragon
11-12-2007, 02:59 PM
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

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andave_ya
11-12-2007, 03:10 PM
^ a bit of a Sherlockian look, Pen! :D

I'm planning to read either Crime and Punishment or The Brothers Karamazov this year, so happy birthday indeed.

bazarov
11-12-2007, 07:27 PM
Well, if he hadn't died in 1881 he would still not be alive today. :lol: But Happy Birthday Fyodor. :bday_2: 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? :lol: Top 1 definitely. Only Don Quixote is maybe near to Brothers.

Pen, nice poem!