починяю примус

уничтожить хаос. проэксплуатировать административный ресурс

умное европейское кино и советская классика

Ильф и Петров "Двенадцать стульев", "Золотой теленок", Зощенко "Перед восходом солнца", "Голубая книга", Булгаков "Записки юного врача", "Записки на манжетах", Полевой "Повесть о настоящем человеке", Бунин "Темные аллеи", поэзия Цветаевой, Орхан Памук "Черная книга"

Mad Men, The Daily Show, Школа злословия

"Conrad, Nabokov, Naipaul - these are writers known for having managed to migrate between languages, cultures, countries, continents, even civilizations. Their imaginations were fed by exile, a nourishment drawn not through roots but through rootlessness. My imagination, however, requires that I stay in the same city, on the same street, in the same house, gazing at the same view. Istanbul's fate is my fate. I am attached to this city because it has made me who I am."

"At least once in a lifetime, self-reflection leads us to examine the circumstances of our birth. Why were we born in this particular corner of the world, on this particular date? These families in to which we were born, these countries and cities to which the lottery of life has assigned us - they expect love from us, and in the end we do love them from the bottom of our hearts; but did we perhaps deserve better? I sometimes think myself unlucky to have been born in an aging and impoverished city buried under the ashes of a ruined empire. But a voice inside me always insists this was really a piece of luck"

- Orhan Pamuk. "Istanbul: Memories and the City"

Посмотришь на иное создание - миллион восторгов, а заглянешь в душу - обыкновенный крокодил.
Чехов

Even
After
All this time
The Sun never says
To the Earth,
"You owe me."
Look
What happens
With a love like that.
It lights the
Whole
Sky.
- Hafiz