This blog tracks my personal obsession with the Soviet revolutionary experience. Soviet Roulette is a diary, intellectual journal, series of creative writing exercises, notes for a novel, reading list, therapeutic enterprise, autobiography, extended love letter to Russia, forum for informal book reviews, chaotic sketch of a course syllabus, and "tribute band" to Russia's best historians.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
What To Do
After staring into a bright light for the past 12 hours, I realize that I have committed a grievous intellectual error. I was seduced by capitalist marketing into reading non-Russian authors to fuel the ravenous global market for paper and ink. The imperialist powers, with their viperous subtlety, implanted the idea that their lackey hacks could illuminate my self. I now see that such a notion is based on a grammatical fallacy. There is no "I" in a truly just system. I repudiate all my past acts of heresy and resolve to improve.
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All that is well and good. But did you then begin seducing others into reading non-Russian novels?
ReplyDeleteOh, yes, and I'll be happy to name names.
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