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Article: On the Nature of Desire.(Four Poems)(Poem)
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- Quadrant
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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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 ...
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