Tag Archives: Juri Lina

INTRIGUE AT THE STARETS ACADEMY

Posted on July 10, 2010 by Dave

According to popular myth Rasputin was a mysterious somewhat dubious man, infamous for drunken debauchery, when he took advantage of the Tsarina’s gullibility and exploited her vulnerability over her son’s ill health. The young Tsarevich was a haemophiliac and during … Continue reading →

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DIE HARD: BRINGING DOWN THE MIDNIGHT RAMBLER

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Dave

Marjorie Perloff has described how “Wittgenstein’s language games have provided models for poetic composition,” and concluded that, for him “the ‘ordinary’ . . . turns out to be, after all, capable of being seen as the ‘aesthetic’” With regard to … Continue reading →