Frank Kalder wrote:
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>
> _Ukrainian Sex Book_
>
> Occasionally, at browsing through the German SPIEGEL (similar to TIME),
> I discovered a quite interesting book ["field studies..."] written
> by Oksana Sabuschko in a vulgar and lyrical novel style (as they
> connoted).
www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/0,1518,457948,00.html
>
>
never heard of it before.
Finally, a sane voice.
My grandfather and I used to debate all the time regarding Ukrainian
literature. I told him Ukrainian literature would never enter the
annals of the great as long as they kept writing about Cossacks. I
said they had to write books of greater universal appeal -- sex love
etc in more modern arenas.
He initially disagreed, but the following day told me he agreed with me
completely. Why would anyone every consider Ukrainian worth learning
unless it had great literature, great technological journals or bawdy
sex stuff.
At last, they are learning.
>
> Countdown: 1 day.
>
> GOOD LUCK for tomorrow and the period ahead!
>
Thanks
Lots of talk on our news today about possible strikes on Iran to wipe
out their nuclear weapons.
Perhaps being in the thick of politics, I will become more interested
in them
mk
Here's a link to an intersting article on changes in Western policies
by Bush administration, concerning the recently appointed Shannon
assistant secretary of state
http://www.coha.org/2007/01/02/tom-shannon-inherits-the-wreckage-of-the-bureau-of.../
Shannon's conciliatory rhetoric to the
contrary suggests a deliberate good cop-bad cop approach to hemispheric
issues, utilizing his Oxonian good cheer to mitigate the harshness of
Bush's policies once they are being put to a test in a given Latin
American
country.
