A still from Thanks For Sharing motion picture
If you have ever been addicted to anything – alcohol, smoking, internet, you name it, you might be interested in a new film called Thanks for Sharing.
The film is focused on sex addiction.… Read the rest
Hans Thoma, Loneliness, 1880
This is a bit of a ‘free flow of thought’ post about a common fear of being lonely.
Homo sapiens is a social animal: the mankind has evolved in tribes and the solitary lifestyle is not natural for us.… Read the rest
Prince Myshkin from Dostoevsky’s novel “Idiot” is a renowned misfit character
I’m a misfit. Always been one, always will be. Yet often, when things got too difficult, I would think, “I wish I was normal, like everyone else.”
The thing is there’s no such thing as normal.… Read the rest
A theme of imprisonment is very popular in Russian literature.
It probably started with Pushkin, Lermontov and other poets of Russian Golden Age who often criticised Tzar, the autocratic Russian State and the lack of freedoms for serfs and other poor people. … Read the rest
I think I overdosed you lately with existential topics. What did you expect? We had the worst April and most of May weather in English history (N.B., subject to mild exaggeration).
Now the sun is up and Grisha (yep, that’s me) is ready 4 fun and frolics.… Read the rest
When I was a child this was the question I asked myself every often, but others seemed to be uninterested in it. Adults and other kids would just reply to me: “I don’t know”. I thought it was some kind of puzzle.… Read the rest
I grew up in a small port town in the Far East of Russia. Like any other Soviet boy I was brought up on heroic films and had big aspirations. Many other boys dreamed of becoming cosmonauts, while I wanted to be an inventor, someone like Leonardo da Vinci or Thomas Edison.… Read the rest