Overcooked
Upon waking up, Kosta Spiridonovich shook from the cold and looked to the left, where Bombur Isakovich was snoring like a pig. He slowly pulled out…
Dusk: Thoughts on Moral Convictions — An Exercise in Submission, Forgery, and Petty Thinking, Part 5
Fourth Book: Sunfall XLII. Archeological memory: it is most painful to know one can’t go back in historical momentum, and things which are dead, are…
Dusk: Thoughts on Moral Convictions — An Exercise in Submission, Forgery, and Petty Thinking, Part 4
Third Book: Moonrise XXVIII. Carpe diem, carpe Dei: when I was younger and finally mastered a little bit of Latin, I boasted to some student of the…
Dusk: Thoughts on Moral Convictions — An Exercise in Submission, Forgery, and Petty Thinking, Part 3
Second Book: Slumbering at Dawn XIV. Disastrous consequences: comparing a single translation of, for instance, Collins Classics and any of our…
Dusk: Thoughts on Moral Convictions — An Exercise in Submission, Forgery, and Petty Thinking, Part 2
Temishvar-Timișoara, Near the Serbian-Romanian Border December, Winter First Book: Awakening at Dusk I. Hastening to the end: all things read quickly…
Dusk: Thoughts on Moral Convictions — An Exercise in Submission, Forgery, and Petty Thinking, Part 1
Prologue I. In this pamphlet, a person will encounter a “renter”, a borrower, a spendthrift, a man always scrapping by, or even better, a deep…
Notes About Our Common Ground, Part 3
XI. Miroslav Pritvornikov was killed by anarchists who considered him a nationalist intellectual. An intellectual they held guilty for many crimes, a…
Notes About Our Common Ground, Part 2
V. If men were born to be happy, they would not have to feel pain. Yet, to feel pain is to be happy is it not? But us Dostoevskians are happy when…
Notes About Our Common Ground, Part 1
I. This was one of those men common in those parts. Self-indulgent, narcissistic, witty but actually cruel, chasing after the hallowed glow of…
On the Collapse of Our Institutions of Higher Learning, Part 5
Fourth Topic: Gibraltar on the Danube, 2016-2017 The city of Novi Sad, situated on the Danube, is overlooked by a vast, sprawling fortress on the…
