(v) If only you knew how sorry I was to find not you but rather the note you left on my desk. Had I returned but a minute earlier, I might s...

(iv) "Cat's mint" (i.e. catsfoot). Glechoma hedera terrestris, alleviates piles. Arzamas region medicinal herbarium Кошечья м...

(iii) Having ordered a very light supper, which consisted of only a sucking pig, Chichikov straight away undressed and, climbing under the ...

(i) "Would you like to take some snuff? It chases away headaches and gloomy moods; it is even good for treating haemorrhoids." Say...

Хотя бы только пожелать так, хотя бы только насильно заставить себя это сделать, ухватиться бы за этот <день>, как утопающий хватает...

Creation sometimes pours into the spiritual eye the radiance of heaven. The green mountains that glimmer in a summer gloaming from the dusky...

Даниил Иванович говорил: надо подойти к пропасти, стать на самом краю ее, взглянуть вниз и не упасть. Чинари глава из книги Якова Семено...

Iulian Ciocan, Înainte să moară Brejnev (Before Brezhnev Died). Polirom: Jassy, 2007. 173 pp. Before Brezhnev Died by Iulian Ciocan is...

Samuel Beckett, letter to Mary Manning Howe, sent from Hamburg on 14 November 1936 ... I am exhorted to ablate 33.3 recurring to all eternit...

Babylon is a towne not very great but very populous, and of great traffike of strangers, for that it is the way to Persia, Turkia and Arabi...

In a most curious and rare tract, entitled A Joco-serious Discourse in two Dialogues, between a Northumberland Gentleman and his Tenant, a S...

Scars can be literal or metaphorical, physical or psychical. The scar is the memory of the wound, imprinted on the warp and weft of the fles...

Paris-Cauchemar (1870-1871) À Mr. Étienne R. Veron de Braïla Un ciel de gouffre, et des images très opaques, Nuit d'horreur, - mais, par...

Mais bientôt les bizarreries s’accusèrent davantage, et il devenait parfois difficile de les excuser, car elles sortaient du domaine de la...

God sealed us, in imprinting his Image in our soules, and in the powers thereof, at our creation; and so, every man hath this seale, and he ...

"Be virtuous, don't be greedy, Divine justice will not spare you." Dîmbovița valley, Argeș Bananas

In the deep places of the earth, in the utmost depths of the sea, in the alveoli of the lungs, in the ventricles of the heart, in the caviti...

Melancholia Flatuosa multiplicem ob causam difficilis curationis est. Nam praeter vehementem venarum meseraicarum a crassa crudaque materia,...

Ebraeis sternutare est Atasch ; unde Thalmudistarum verbale Ittonsch , sternutationem notat. Iidem apud Buxtorfium in Lex. Thalmudico disti...

1:1 at the Romanian Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale, 2010. Installation created by Romina Grillo, Ciprian Rășoiu, Liviu Vasiu, Mate...

Max Blecher was born on 8 September 1909 in Botoșani, a provincial town in northern Moldavia. Up until the Second World War, Botoșani was ...

That God should let my soul fall out of his hand, into a bottomless pit, and roll an unremovable stone upon it, and leave it to that which...

Les Grecs dont parle Juvénal mettaient au service de leur ambition une merveilleuse souplesse de caractère, leur devise était: Tout à tous, ...

Victor Serge said, "I followed his argument With the blank uneasiness which one might feel In the presence of a logical lunatic." ...

As Nothing is not Something, so every thing which is not Something, is Nothing; and wherever Something is not, Nothing is (...) For instanc...

To our grandparents, a ‘house’, a ‘well’, a familiar steeple, even their own clothes, their cloak, still meant infinitely more, were still ...

A patient noticed the waiter in the coffee-house; he skipped past him so quickly and uncannily. He noticed odd behaviour in an acquaintanc...