Sword vs pen
Jan. 30th, 2014 07:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
A friend linked me to this story of literary feelings running high: Russian Man Stabbed to Death in Poetry-Over-Prose Dispute.
Russia appears to have form on this - last September a man was shot in a dispute about Kant.
Russia appears to have form on this - last September a man was shot in a dispute about Kant.
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Date: 2014-01-30 08:15 pm (UTC)On a random poetry-related note, did you know that Robert Browning went to St. Petersburg in the early 1830s as an attache? I like to imagine that at some state function or other, he and Pushkin might have exchanged polite greetings while reaching for the caviar :).
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Date: 2014-02-03 04:46 pm (UTC)I iddn't know that Browning went to Russia - I must confess that I got the worst mark of my degree on the Victorians paper ;-)