Character: Svyatoslav Koifman



Well osmonali, I said in response after the commotion subsided. Do you know incidentally what the word "shakedown"?
"No," I replied.
"Wow. You look like a Jew".
"What is it?"
"Shakedown" in Hebrew means "eight hours."
"So what? I still don't understand."
"In the eight hours before the prison was searched. Definitely every day."
Quote Explanation: Presumably derived from the Hebrew. שמונה "eight". In the Odessa prison before the revolution, at eight in the morning in the chambers organized a search.
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Suffering not bulk. There is what you want, but not in the spatial dimensions. In time, in the air, in look, in the dream, most dream - not only in the number of pages and not in inches.
№ 261022   Added MegaMozg 18-01-2017 / 20:41
... the heart has the same rules as chess. Made a move to pereshagivaete impossible. Not even close.
№ 261020   Added MegaMozg 18-01-2017 / 20:41
Over the past thirty years, her attack lost the passion with which Japanese pilots was lifted in the air their fighters on the night of the attack on pearl Harbor, however, from time to time I have had the opportunity to feel the wrath of the deity kamikaze lover to memory loss in your Mikado in what is possible and, in General, want to die.
№ 261019   Added MegaMozg 18-01-2017 / 20:41
Innuendo will always contain more meaning than what is expressed to the end.
№ 261018   Added MegaMozg 18-01-2017 / 20:41
Peter the great had to stay an additional three hundred years, and forge ahead with construction of its "navigation schools", because even in the late twentieth century, and even exchanging fifth decade, someone still suddenly discovers that is on the wrong track. Therefore, the fault of the Navigator that, in General, it is not surprising, as all is usually the fault of the Jews, and the pilot, judging by the end, natural it is.
№ 261017   Added MegaMozg 18-01-2017 / 20:41
Because there is no past does not exist. Faulkner is absolutely right. But not in the sense that your past is always with you, and that, coming from your past, don't turn around without end. Just turn out the light and leave the room. Vacate the room. And don't turn into a pillar of salt. Don't look back.
№ 261016   Added MegaMozg 18-01-2017 / 20:41
... this whole sensual element without a trace disappeared, it's like I had in the beginning only to lure, to mislead, to recolor beyond recognition simple and obvious idea that the textbook assumes only school, but love - only a sense of responsibility and hard work. And no fun. I realized that the system works this way, and that all this is a great trick. However, it was clear something else - an understanding of the nature of fraud does not mean that you do not want to be deceived again. Being of sound mind and good consciousness.
№ 261015   Added MegaMozg 18-01-2017 / 20:41
"So," I sighed. - About different names and sweet marmalade... do You know why it's called "marmalade"?
Dean shook his head and looked at his watch again. Like the glass in his hand wasn't enough.
- The fact that the Queen of Scotland, - I continued, - once told his cook sugar oranges. It is unknown why she got that idea into your head, but I wanted Queen Mary of the unknown in medieval times treats. And when you cook all of this food, it was the French maid and the Queen said that the appetite was gone. And the eyes of a frustrated chef, this is the maid the whole plate and eat up. Yes, the French are still saying "Marie malade", which meant "Marie is sick". Since then, it went "Mariemalade". Funny story?
№ 261014   Added MegaMozg 18-01-2017 / 20:41
The day after the wedding the happy husband was kicked out of a cozy family nest, which he had not been given to twist. <...> Klavdia Feodorovna was a decent girl and a completely different look at gender relations. She was pretty surprised that someone of her colleagues could come to mind are dirty thoughts. She even could not imagine, what harmful effects of conventional yogurt on the immature sexual consciousness of Soviet professors. Anyway spunky Those with a snap shot from two-bedroom apartments Claudia Fedorovna, and habitually unbearable the life of her subordinates turned this time into a living hell. Suffering in Saigon, where just at that time the Americans behind the scenes were already occupying the former barracks of the French colonialists. And I, incidentally, had to work there. To survive in the jungle of the Mekong. Of course, as the trembling of a Vietnamese peasant.
"Ave you seen Vietcong, son? You haven't? You're lying, dirty native swine! Die, son-of-a..."
("The Viet Cong did not see, son? No? Don't lie to me, you filthy native! Die, you bas--". Per. from English.)
Quote Explanation: Klavdia Feodorovna, who headed the Department, ...being already quite experienced old virgin ...then one day decided to get married.
№ 261013   Added MegaMozg 18-01-2017 / 20:41
Due to the strong mentality and a lack of fastidiousness in the choice of means she succeeded, and most likely that is why she suddenly got it into her head that she needs a husband. <...> Wasn't she so naive to believe all the crap about reliable male hands which in old age support, and in youth is also something there - playful, restless and curious. Plus, nimble as a ferret. Only careless. The more that her feminine hand was more of a whole bunch of men.
№ 261012   Added MegaMozg 18-01-2017 / 20:41
... suddenly it seemed to me that normal people do not exist. Maybe they exist, but the definition of "normality" or "I am not crazy" is still more self-esteem, concise and incredibly boastful autobiography, but not the description of a fully functional system.
№ 260995   Added MegaMozg 18-01-2017 / 20:40
The acuteness of perception of happiness is very, very rare. Not many people manage to experience it. Even when happiness is right here it is, the man still seems - no, not maybe.
№ 260974   Added MegaMozg 18-01-2017 / 20:39
The orderlies and nurses didn't recognize me. <...> They used to take any expression of elation with caution. Their experience told them that irrational enthusiasm often ends in tears. Chlorpromazine, in their opinion, in this case, was the most reliable means.
Quote Explanation: "Chlorpromazine" - the first synthesized neuroleptic (1950), one of the most typical drugs of this class. The main features of chlorpromazine ("Chlorpromazine" - trade name) are antipsychotic effect and influence on the emotional sphere of the person. With chlorpromazine it is possible to stop various types of psychomotor excitation, weaken or completely stop the delusions and hallucinations, to reduce or remove fear, anxiety, stress in patients with psychoses and neuroses. The feature of pronounced sedative (calming) effect.
№ 260967   Added MegaMozg 18-01-2017 / 20:39
Ignorantia non est argumentum. In ponderously means: "the Less you know - still do not live longer".
Quote Explanation: "Ignorantia non est argumentum" - (lat.) ignorance is not an argument.
№ 260956   Added MegaMozg 18-01-2017 / 20:39