Comments on: Death of another courageous journalist http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/4477.html Some Chicago Boyz know each other from student days at the University of Chicago. Others are Chicago boys in spirit. The blog name is also intended as a good-humored gesture of admiration for distinguished Chicago boys including those pictured above. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:47:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: John http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/4477.html/comment-page-1#comment-22712 John Thu, 12 Oct 2006 00:09:46 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/004477.php#comment-22712 I have an old volume that has both <i>On Socialist Realism</i> and <i>The Trial Begins</i>, as well as some short stories or essays. It's in a box on my Mom's attic, and the next time I get to go south of the Mason Dixon, I'll look for it. I have an old volume that has both On Socialist Realism and The Trial Begins, as well as some short stories or essays. It’s in a box on my Mom’s attic, and the next time I get to go south of the Mason Dixon, I’ll look for it.

]]> By: Helen http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/4477.html/comment-page-1#comment-22711 Helen Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:04:23 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/004477.php#comment-22711 Rapaciousness is not unique to the Russians but there has been a historic tendency to view life as a zero sum game, I agree. You should see what the English merchants of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth century had to say. Which particular Tertz book are you talking about? The one on socialist realism? Rapaciousness is not unique to the Russians but there has been a historic tendency to view life as a zero sum game, I agree. You should see what the English merchants of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth century had to say.

Which particular Tertz book are you talking about? The one on socialist realism?

]]> By: John http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/4477.html/comment-page-1#comment-22710 John Wed, 11 Oct 2006 01:51:06 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/004477.php#comment-22710 Helen, I'm not so sure that Russia's place is as one of the truly great countries in the world. I've been trying to find my old copy of Avram Tertz (Andrei Sinyavsky) stories and novels where he says that perhaps Russia's destiny is to serve as a warning to the rest of the human race. (Tatyana, if you have that quote in Russian I'd be much obliged). I've said here before that I love the Russians, and I cherish the time I spent there, but I'm not so enamored of the <i>nation</i> of Russia. That culture's history of rapaciousness, and consequent viewing of life as a zero sum game, does not bode well for its immediate future. Helen, I’m not so sure that Russia’s place is as one of the truly great countries in the world. I’ve been trying to find my old copy of Avram Tertz (Andrei Sinyavsky) stories and novels where he says that perhaps Russia’s destiny is to serve as a warning to the rest of the human race. (Tatyana, if you have that quote in Russian I’d be much obliged).

I’ve said here before that I love the Russians, and I cherish the time I spent there, but I’m not so enamored of the nation of Russia. That culture’s history of rapaciousness, and consequent viewing of life as a zero sum game, does not bode well for its immediate future.

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