From: patricia@cco.caltech.edu (Patricia M. Schwarz)
Subject: Re: y6eu B ce6e XACAHA! ( was: Re: Russian poetry )
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 10:24:23 GMT

>>Well, some of her postings are somewhat unadequate - when she
>>manages to find something feministic in Master&Margaret etc.
>>But note, that there's nothing offensive for anybody in any 
>>of her articles.

You don't own Master and Margaret. And neither do I. I think Bulgakov had
more talent than to write just to the understanding of one single individual.
If there were just one correct understanding of any work of literature, then
the field of literary criticism would not exist.

>I don't have anything against Ms. Schwarz personally.
>What's more, maybe if I would meet her I'd fall from the love
>from first sight

A cold day in hell. You're a small-minded, bitter coward and I have
nothing to do with people like you, Russian or feminist or Communist
or anything. Perhaps you are some disappointed emigrant. Or maybe there
is some deeper, more sorrowful source of this poisonous anger that you fling
at me. But nonetheless, you are not impressive at all. You trash everything
I say, and then have nothing to offer of your own.

What's more, you're such a coward that you can't even trash me to my
face.

I hate men and women like you. You live to abuse others.

>But she was and is very, I repeat, *very* offensive to 
>Russian literature and culture. 

Oh pardon me, I thought Russian literature and culture was a broad
field of human endeavor spanning centuries, with a wealth of competing
ideas and themes and poets and writers.

I must have been wrong. It turns out that Russian literature and culture
is actually three frustated guys on Usenet.

Wait until I tell all my friends in Moscow. It'll be a surprise, for sure.

>And she didn't understand that.
>And she tries to write a book - with that ignorant and offensive
>attitude.
>-igor

I think you really hate me because I have come into your closed bitter
world and laid my heart open for everyone, including for vicious cowards
like you. My emotional openness scares the hell out of you. You are so
contorted inside with fear that you hate anyone who takes the chances I have
taken here.

I'm sorry that you hate my book before you've seen it. Several people
have already seen the first chapter and love it.

Last week my coauthor had dinner with Yuri Orlov and he said we are doing
precisely the thing that needs to be done. And the heads of the Slavic
departments at Princeton and Cornell are also very enthusiastic
about our work, as are the Russian PhD advisors of my coauthor at
Leningrad University, and many other people in film, literature
and language in Russia.

You see, you don't know anything or anyone, all you know is what you
lived. Luckily, it's possible for a person to find out more than just
what they lived themselves.

That is how literature exists in the first place.

I am quitting this group and leaving all back to your trying to solve
how many antisemites can fit on the head of an Estonian pin in
Romania without speaking Latin.

Thank you to the many nice people out there who have wished me luck
in my project and have offered to help. But really, I'm not strong
enough to take this type of cowardly abuse, so I have to leave.
It hurts too much. But better to be able to be hurt and to be able
to say so than to become bitter and frustrated like Igor and his pals.

-patricia
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