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...await tales from those who return from the viewing room, where most of us, gratefully, will never go. I wouldn't want to be the reporter having to put a microphone in the face of one of the mothers coming out of that bleak, nameless room in Oklahoma City. But somewhere along the way I'd like to know: Did you find a compensating grace in McVeigh's death, some sliver of serenity that eluded you before? Are you wiser, are you lighter, is there one less drop of grief in your ocean of sorrow? Perhaps some crimes...
Though it is Luzhin whose name appears in the title, Gorris has transformed and developed the character of Natalia from Nabokov’s book in which she is nameless. In the film, Watson arguably plays the starring role, and is certainly no less outstanding than Turturro. The story is introduced, and much of it told, through Natalia’s perspective, and it seems that she is much wiser to the complexities of the real world than her counterpart, who is lost in the complexities of the world of chess...
Heraclitus was of the royal blood that ruled the Greek city of Ephesus, but renounced his heritage. He looked on his fellow Ephesians with a certain aristocratic disdain and hated the mediocrity of those who "eat their way/toward sleep like nameless oxen." His countrymen, he wrote, "say, No man should be/worthier than average. Thus,/my fellow citizens declare,/whoever would seek/excellence can find it/elsewhere among others." He was sardonically hardheaded: "Hungry livestock,/though in sight of pasture,/need the prod...
Heraclitus was of royal blood but renounced his heritage. He looked on his fellow Ephesians with a certain aristocratic desdain. He hated the mediocrity of those who "eat their way/ toward sleep like nameless oxen." The Ephesians, he wrote, "say, No man should be/ worthier than average. Thus,/ my fellow citizens declare/ whoever would seek/ excellence can find it/ elsewhere among others...
Peter's inspiration for the city probably came from Amsterdam. But his ambition quickly grew. It was to be the Paris, the Venice of the North. As usual in Russia, nameless Russians from remote villages were sacrificed to the leader's dreams. Tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands died. St. Petersburg, the 19th century historian Nikolai Karamzin wrote in words that fit today, "is a city founded on tears and corpses." It was, many felt, a fitting legacy of Russia's greatest reformer, who dragged his empire into the modern age by a mixture of will-power and terror...