pastoral=pasteurized milk:-)

wow, there seems to be a guy who can't find a woman in Armenia: http://www.cilicia.com/armo_life-log.html:-) should tell dzyuno about it :-)))

yeah, tolstoy and dostoevsky, urbanism and pastoralism... this is what i wanted to write about :-) (i've got to drop this stupid habit of 'savoring' my messages with emoticons:-)) while cooking in a freezing kitchen of my apartment yesterday, for some reason or another i started thinking of why we are so fascinated with urban areas and why intelligentsia which apparently should have seen the devastating influence of being torn away from the nature seem to prefer towns and is drawn to these places like bees to their hives. my answer was 'suffering', in the case of intelligentsia: painter, writers etc. etc. it sounds weird but suffering opens up the doors to intellect and emotions, hence no surprise towns serve as honeycombs for these intelligent bees. one suffers when torn away from his natural milieu, right? as humans we’re indispensable from nature (and don’t give me the crap on human superiority and stuff! (a call in a desert! who’s the one not to give me the crap anyway:-)?)) and once away from her we tend to suffer. so tolstoy returned to the nature and perhaps that’s the reason behind the aristocracy and harmony of his novel. dostoevsky stayed in town, hence the darkness his work is permeated with.