Hello again.
As some of you probably know, the best story that I have ever read and my model of beauty (here I don't know the right word to render the Russian "эталон красоты") is the sixth tale of Dan Simmons's "Hyperion", "Remembering Siri".
In this entry I want to tell what in this tale makes the deepest strings in my heart tremble.

Warning! ( Read more... )

I really should be writing a report about Teilhard de Chardin. Or a report about contemporary history textbooks. Or a summary of one part of Fernand Braudel's Civilization and Capitalism. Or reports on education in Pakistan and Tajikistan. Or I should be moving forward with the application of quantitative methods to the analysis of... doesn't ( Read more... )

[Dialogues]A: Have you ever played go/weiqi? I think if there is a game for you it is the go game ( Read more... )