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"A great writer is, so to speak, a secret government in his country."
-- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Solzhenitsyn's, 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich,'' rocked my literary world in grade seven.
RIP
Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89
Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89
Art cannot be modern.. Art is primordially eternal.
– Egon Schiele
– Egon Schiele
Solzhenitsyn's address to Harvard, Thursday, June 8, 1978
A World Split Apart
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/ar ... d1978.html
"To the dismay of his supporters, in his Harvard speech he rejected the West's faith "Western pluralistic democracy" as the model for all other nations. It was a mistake, he warned, for Western societies to regard the failure of the rest of the world to adopt the democratic model as a product of "wicked governments or by heavy crises or by their own barbarity or incomprehension." (AP source in window above)
Prophetic words spoken 30 years ago.
A World Split Apart
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/ar ... d1978.html
"To the dismay of his supporters, in his Harvard speech he rejected the West's faith "Western pluralistic democracy" as the model for all other nations. It was a mistake, he warned, for Western societies to regard the failure of the rest of the world to adopt the democratic model as a product of "wicked governments or by heavy crises or by their own barbarity or incomprehension." (AP source in window above)
Prophetic words spoken 30 years ago.
Art cannot be modern.. Art is primordially eternal.
– Egon Schiele
– Egon Schiele
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