Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Analect 2.706x



27 April 2010. Rain, insistent. Umbrellas and frowns...

Nikolai Bolkonsky returns to Lisye Gory with his new wife, Liza, who is expecting... Encounter of Liza and Princess Marya... "who although they've met only briefly, one time, at the wedding, now immediately clasp each others hands...and burst into tears." Hands abandoned, for a moment, then rejoined, again with tears. Prince Nikolai frowns... Entire universe in one moment of feeling...

An Odessa street. Na Deribasovskoj. Pelican's view. The Russian sailor and his girl, "like a proud Grechanka," or so goes the song. The shepherd, without his flock, and a woman from the past, Ottoman times, cloistered in the ways of the Prophet. The Pontus even before...

Mariupol, Odessos, Tira...

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