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Really interesting points; and shift of level. Swedish radio today was telling of a Ukrainian artist, Anna Sarvira, who had made a book for small children on how to talk about the fear that almost everybody have on their minds, but nobody is talking about, especially not with children.

Among grandiose projects defying death I guess Egyptian pyramids are still outstanding I suppose, and Cheops', who was known to be an evil pharaoh, did number one.

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Chez ces personnages - et comment ne pas invoquer Shakespeare - les contradictions sont proportionnées à la pathologie profonde, celle que l’on dévoile justement en tentant désespérément de la masquer. L’affaire des tables de 10 ou 20 mètres de Long est terriblement révélatrice de cette coupure avec le réel.

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Feb 17, 2022·edited Feb 17, 2022

Robert Hubbell, a Sustack author of "Today's Edition" pointed out in his 2/15/11 piece"Did Putin Just Blink": "the Russian Duma was considering a proposal to “recognize” two Ukrainian provinces, as independent states. Those provinces just happen to sit on the border with Russia." and one of his knowledgeable readers said "While Putin will probably pull back significant numbers of his forces from the Ukrainian border, he will leave them in Belarus, thereby in effect taking control of that country and adding to his ability to boast that he is making Russia great again." If the reader’s observation is correct, Putin will have used this crisis to occupy two sovereign countries—Ukraine and Belarus." IMHO, he'd get a twofer.

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