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Dec 8, 2021 • 9 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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Nabokov on being a good reader and writer.

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“Alas, I have known people whose purpose in reading the French and Russian novelists was to learn something about life in gay Paree or in sad Russia.”
How could we ever know?
Very regrettable that modernity has pinned the Rus against the Anglo. If it weren’t so sad it would be hilarious.
If sobornost was ever possible, it no longer seems to be in the West (at least for now).

Maybe the Rus can get it done. Maybe Dostoyevsky was right about Russian Messianism.

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The Column of Trajan and Marcus Aurelius:

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In Defense of Wagner, the man:

This thread will explore some popular criticisms of Richard Wagner and attempt to dispel them.

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Sigmundur Brestisson:

His father was butchered before his eyes, he was driven from his home, enslaved by his kin, and forced into destitution. Most men would succumb.

Sigmundur would not.

He would become a renowned warrior and eventually bring Christendom to the Faroe Islands.
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Wagner's Lohengrin:

First performed in 1850, this was his final opera before starting Der Ring cycle.

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Salic Law:

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Wagner is one of the most recondite men our society has produced.

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