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Sitting by the water

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Eye contact with water is all it (the water) needs to sway me off in a matter of moments. In fact this is an old trick I have used on myself, to hypnotize and anesthetize myself in hills to forget the pains and aches of an arduous climb, a long trek, a difficult day. Shrinking further in, the battered limbs, as if shut their eyes and sense the icy melt from where it all began—calming themselves without a Brufen or brandy. A toe dipped in the stream, a finger playing on its ripples and a drop of it on the tip of the nose sends a Kumar Gandharv aalap rushing through the body and soul. Sitting by a stream is nirvana.

Vladimir Lenin

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I would have died of joy and excitement had Com Lenin offered to drop me to school riding my cycle.

‘Lenin and Lolitesa,’ Pencil and crayon on paper by Croatian artists Dubravka Ugrešić  as a part of The Red School.

Outspoken, provocative, novelist and essayist Dubravka Ugrešić died in Amsterdam on Friday, March 17th, surrounded by family and friends. She was known for her incisive critical voice, an intriguing playfulness and a commitment to the principles dictated by her position as an expatriate citizen of the Republic of World Letters, and was a vocal critic of the recent upsurge of nationalism and neo-Fascism in Europe.

Artwork signed again 2022.