Fragments of a blog
Fragments of a blog
Reading Faramerz Dabhoiwala‘s review of three books on British imperial history, I saw this quote from 1911 concerning West Indians of color: …lazy, vicious and incapable of any serious improvement, or of work except under compulsion. In such a climate…
A Daughter of Albion is a short story by Anton Chekhov. It was first published in 1883 in Nikolai Leykin’s magazine, Fragments (or Shards, perhaps more precisely). Up until 1888 Chekhov was known to the Russian public primarily as the…
Kipling placed The Beginnings at the end of his 1917 miscellany, A Diversity of Creatures. To the reader, the poem might seem a postscript to the short story Mary Postgate, which is the next-to-last piece in the collection. The story…
I’ve noticed that The Beginnings, a WWI poem by Rudyard Kipling, is rather popular on the Net. Googling its first line, “It was not part of their blood,” yields over 122,000 results. For comparison, I’ve searched for three random first…
A good speech overall, but it must be about some other country in a parallel world. I’m going to pick one bit that I know all Russia-watchers in Blogistan will get exercised about. Also certain is that Russia should continue…