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That novelists' publisher need not be concerned for the title of that author's most recent novel being "Fatherland"  — at least not in French and Russian translations.

Vladimir Kornilov's poem, спор, makes this very clear ( I think the title of that poem should be "Indisputable" ) in arguing ( after a fashion ) that the state is power, but the motherland is something quite other ... rather like the Lithuania imagined in the poems of the late Czesław Miłosz, I imagine.

cp: Batkivshchyna / Батьківщина as 'our native land' ( The Nfld equivalent for their 'race' ? )

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Brodsky Leningrad Visas

Nixon is coming to Moscow and a professor of Soviet Studies from Yale has been visiting  poet in Leningrad.

The Professor driven from Marburg is struggling to return and has come as far as Amsterdam.  But was this student of the logician also smoking ?

Did Akhmatova's 1945 visitor ever stop at Bard ?

As Brodsky might have told Volkov, abstract from the circumstances.

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data imagined humour

I suspect that a survey of Tea Party activists would reveal that most believe that anti-gravity scooters will soon out-sell home-built aircraft kits, but that most of those do not believe in evolution and many do not believe that NASA sent astronauts to the moon, or if it did, those chumps never made it back DOWN to earth.

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Trilce, César

Durs Grünbein's poem Trilce, César has an echo from A Treatise on Poetry by Czeslaw Milosz.

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Warhol Amiga Commodore

BBC : "Warhol works recovered from old Amiga disks"

Someone should tell Carl Sassenrath before he empties his basement !

REBOL ~ rebol3 ~ Red Programming Language #Red #Rebol



#Red

quantum stew first step ( for any "Mr. Nobody" sequel )

If a sufficient number of photons travel through a double-slit to trigger a latch controlled by a detector such that either food is added to the trough of a crowded rabbit hutch or one rabbit is allowed to escape that hutch — well in either event we may be excused for thinking that the universe may not so much have split as merely to have answered a possible question as to whether we should have brought a shotgun with the gunny sack.

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New Brunswick Tourism web page annotation folly

The NB tour-us page at http://www.tourismnewbrunswick.ca/
offers which text characters to select (not to copy, but that also would be reasonable given that HTML is hyperTEXT ?)

Characters as Text to select is how browser annotation of web pages is done usually. Displaying a URL is optional in most browsers now. So … how to make a note about visiting NB and keep that note linked to that page with one click ? ANSWER: select text characters at ?

Tip : my annotation tool uses CTRL-F12 as the note hotkey when text is selected. OneNote would make a pointless image-copy if there were no text to select. Perhaps the staff programmers do not even know that the Tx icon means "remove text formatting" — or why some browsers offer "copy as plain text."

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