| The number seven has a deep significance to... 250 |
[Mar. 3rd, 2010|04:43 am] |
The number seven has a deep significance to MannHans Castorp spends seven years on the mountain, and if you will remember the first seven days are given great emphasisMost of the major characters have seven letters in their name, Castorp, Clavdia, Joachim, even Settembrini fulfills it in that the Latin root of his name stands for seven
The scribbling of notes, the pious acceptanceSir, Hearn asks, what's the importance of that? I mean frankly I found the novel a pompous bore, and I think this seven business is a perfect example of German didacticness, expanding a whim into all kinds of critical claptrap, virtuosity perhaps, but it leaves me unmoved
His speech causes a minor stir in the class, a polite discussion which the lecturer sums up gently before continuing, but it is a significant impatience for HearnHe would not have said that the preceding year
There is even a political honeymoon for a monthHe reads some Marx and Lenin, joins the John Reed Society, and argues stubbornly all the time with the members
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| I made myself a sandwich and
ate it in front of... 245 |
[Feb. 13th, 2010|03:59 am] |
I made myself a sandwich and
ate it in front of my computerI was catching up
with The Hummingbirds - they had become quite the
little obsession with me - when the phone rang
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"My headache's gone," he said
"Do you always say hello like that?" I asked"Can
I maybe expect your next call to begin 'I just
evacuated my bowels'?"
"Don't make light of thisMy head has ached ever
since I woke up on the dining room floor after
shooting myselfSometimes it's just background
noise and sometimes it rings like New Year's Eve
in hell, but it always achesAnd then, half an
hour ago, it just quitI was making |
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| Hello, my account friends 828 |
[Feb. 10th, 2010|10:45 pm] |
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| "Russian Government Manages to Curb Unemployment: Putin |
[Feb. 5th, 2010|04:39 pm] |
"The Russian government has avoided a sharp increase in unemployment and preserved the country's underdeveloped banking system, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday while summing up the government's main achievements in 2009.
""Unemployment has grown and is still growing, but it isn't as dramatic as it might have been,"" Putin told reporters during a working visit to Russia's Far Eastern city of Vladivostok.
Putin recalled that Russia's largest banks disappeared after the 1998 financial crisis and took money with them. ""We have prevented this from happening (this time),"" he was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency.
The government acquired several banks that were on the verge of bankruptcy amidst the ongoing economic downturn, he said. ""We've restructured them, merged or consolidated them.""
Putin admitted that the credit market contracted considerably due to the economic crisis, but said the country is gradually emerging from this situation.
The premier added that authorities should have spent more on diversifying the economy in the past decade.
Russia, whose economy is heavily dependent on energy resources, was hard hit by the global economic downturn as oil prices collapsed late last year. Putin predicted early this month that Russia's economy would shrink by 8.5 to 8.7 percent this year.
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