Does anybody need, or know anybody who does need, a copywriter? Will write words for money. Any work gratefully received. Free as of 14th November. Please share, lockdown job-hunting isn't much fun.
The issue with the arts is that @BorisJohnson and the Cabinet clowns see it as high end occasional entertainment for them and their rich chums, and are blind to its economic significance, let alone the educational, cultural and progressive power of the arts for the disadvantaged
Day 29 #TolstoyTogether#2wordsaday: "mon ami"
In 1962, deep into what was supposedly the Krushchev Thaw, my friend Pavel was taken to the camps b/c he wrote some truths. When they took him that night, he was naked save an overcoat. Later, they sent back the overcoat, folded.
@queerlitprof She had a tulmutuous affaire with Benjamin Constant a romantic writer and political activist like her. She considered herself the most intelligent woman in France ( she probably was !) she was witty, famous for her brillant conversation, her correspondance is fascinating.
A mixed review by Bertrand Russell: "what is valuable in Tolstoy, to my mind, is his power of right ethical judgments and his perception of concrete facts; his theorizings are of course worthless. ... #TolstoyTogether