ON THE NATURE OF DESIRE 
 
translated from the Russian by Daniel Weissbort 
 
   The Greeks had culture, the Romans 
   had culture, trash has none. 
   The Greeks philosophised, 
   competed in long-distance races, 
   worked out theorems, wrote tragedies (hardly any 
   graphomaniacs). The Romans went to their baths, 
   wrote comedies, built cities in an orderly fashion, 
   organized cohorts likewise. Trash, however, 
   remained trash and managed perfectly well without any of the ...