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No, I don't.

What famous person would you like to write about, if you want to write a biography? For me, it's Denis Istomin. I like Federer and Nadal, but a lot has already been written about them, some of which I have read.

Three guesses! Their birthday is on Tuesday, and they'll be 201.
Apart from her, perhaps George Harrison.

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TBH, The only person I know personally who's famous the most is Julia Rock. I read on the internet that she has just recently been in movies, like Lilith.

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Temple Grandin, Aesop Rock, or Bjork.

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I'm sure that you, too, can guess my amiable Russian, who would be 198 sometime this year.

Have you ever considered learning Hebrew?

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I've seriously been considering writing a biography of Dostoevsky, though I wouldn't expect to get it published. His English language biographers to date, even the celebrated Hingley and Frank, have done pretty poor jobs of it. I'd dare say the Soviet biographers were even worse.

You would have to insert the “grimy details”of a person’s life—as well as an accounting of the virtues—in order to convey the true essence of a person. One cannot sugarcoat things which are true.

The key is to keep the overall atmosphere of a “tasteful rendering” intact....while not withholding what is true about a person—even if debauchery, impropriety, or some such thing is involved.

You probably would not like how Beethoven dressed, for example.

Dostoevsky had many faults: a gambling addiction, dishonesty in his financial affairs, envy, he was a frail and inadequate male specimen, he was often hypocritical, he could be spiteful and Freud claimed plausibly that he was a sexual sadist.






To return to the thread, my answer to my question is that I'd rather like to learn Hebrew sometime in the next few years so as to be able to read the OT in the authentic, Masoretic text.

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Maybe at some point I will, but now I just want to improve my Spanish.

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Somehow I missed all of this, Prometheus!

No, I wouldn't want to learn Hebrew unless I met a Jewish partner. I have nothing against Hebrew, I just find it very difficult to learn new languages.

Do you tend to ruminate?

Yes, I do. I tend to stay up at night thinking often.

My favorite Russian will turn 33 on September 7.

Same q. re. rumination-and what keeps you up at night most?

I tend to be up all night on purpose because I like night better than day. So what keeps me up all ... day? Worry about the people I love, worry about the mistakes I've made in the past, anxiety about making to-do lists so that I won't have to worry in the future. Or, reading books

Did you ever go to a Halloween party?

Not a party, but I regrettably tried "trick-or-treat"-ing.

Do you prefer digestive biscuits with or without chocolate? Do you like them at all?

I think the closest thing in popularity here would be a graham cracker? I've never had a digestive biscuit, but now I think I'll buy some from the "international section" of the grocery store. That's where they also have HP sauce and other British foods. I rarely eat graham crackers. They're ok dipped in milk.


Did you go for a walk today?

I did! It was really hot and wore me out but I was glad to get the exercise.

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