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[taelle]

My Semagic seems to have crashed. I am so not used to posting from LJ itself

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[dsgood]

I wonder if he actually believes that.

[taelle]

He might, for all I know. *sigh*

[alice_montrose]

Byzantium. The ideal place. I suppose he expects people to believe him, too.

And as far as I recall, it was the Ottomans who delivered the killing blow. they are Western people... how, exactly?

[taelle]

I don't know the details but I guess killing blow doesn't count, the detroying of the spirit does. Or something.

[alice_montrose]

Yes, the destruction of Russian spirit, likely, does count. For He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named, that is. *siiiiiiiiigh*

*hugs you*

[taelle]

... yes. *sighs*

[asakiyume]

Putin's... personal confessor? I wish Bush had such a thing... but then, Bush is so sure he's right in all things, what would he ever find to confess?

Anyway... so Putin's personal confessor was narrating a documentary about Byzantium, the Perfect State?

Life is so strange!

[taelle]

I wish Bush had such a thing...

Do you? I don't know how it'd work in US, but here it means the Orthodox church intertwining with the state.

[asakiyume]

That's a good point. I think I only meant that I wish Bush had even the tiniest smidgeon of sense that he could be wrong about stuff. But no, I wouldn't want any denomination wiggling its way into government!

[taelle]

... and US, unlike Russia, never had a really predominant denomination, so it's even more worrisome here.

[tessfawcett]

There was an article in I think the NY Times about that documentary. The political message sounded pretty clear from their synopsis. :-(

[taelle]

Oh yes. (((

[sollersuk]

Huh. I've been heavily into it because of the historical novel I'm writing. My male MC is currently telling the female MC precisely why he doesn't want to be a Roman any more mostly based on his experiences there. Nike riots, anybody?

[taelle]

It's not about history, it's about the search for the National Idea. I am not precisely sure as to why we need National Idea but apparently it's the most urgent thing we need right now. And Byzantium's the place to look for it. And Byzantians seem to get shoehorned into being our forefathers, too...