heartofsoul schreef:
Een beetje off topic, Cellulord, maar mij lijkt het oorzakelijk verband tussen de uitstoot van CO2 sinds de Industriële Revolutie en de versnelde opwarming van de atmosfeer helder. Zullen we dit verder via pm's bediscussiëren? Maar het begrip "klimaatscepticus" ken je neem ik aan toch wel, of heb je de afgelopen jaren geen kranten gelezen? (waar wel wat voor te zeggen valt). Dan houd je tijd over om al die mooie muziek op je gemak te beluisteren.

Franck Maudit schreef:
De cirkel is rond.
Adieu.

Ostap Bender lay in the dvornik's room, which was warm to the point of reeking, and mentally put the finishing touches on two possible career plans.

He could become a polygamist and move peacefully from town to town, dragging behind him a new suitcase full of valuable items he'd picked up from the latest wife. Or he could go the very next day to the Stargorod Children's Commission and offer them the chance to distribute the as-yet unpainted but brilliantly conceived canvas The Bolsheviks Writing a Letter to Chamberlain, based on the artist Repin's popular painting The Zaporozhian Cossacks Writing a Letter to the Turkish Sultan. If it worked out, this option could bring in something along the line of four hundred rubles.

Ostap had thought up both options during his last stay in Moscow. The polygamy option had been born under the influence of the court report from the evening papers, where it was clearly indicated that some polygamist had only gotten two years without strict isolation. Option number two had taken shape in Bender's mind when he was going through the AARR exhibit on a free ticket.

However, both options had their downsides. It was impossible to begin a career as a polygamist without a wondrous, dapple-gray suit. In addition, he needed at least ten rubles for hospitality expenses and seduction. Of course, he could get married in his green campaign uniform as well, because Bender's masculine power and attraction were absolutely irresistible to provincial, marriage-ready Margaritas; but that would be, as Bender liked to say, "Poor-quality goods. Not clean work." It wasn't all smooth sailing for the painting, either. Purely technical difficulties could arise. Would it be proper to paint Comrade Kalinin in a papakha and a white burka, or Comrade Chicherin naked to the waist?

chevy93 schreef:
Ilf & Petrov

Masimo schreef:
Nu bezig in de schelmenroman Lazarillo van Tormes

Cellulord schreef:
Bolaño meesterwerk