--- Andy F <andy274 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/2/07, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> Oh, god, that put me in tears.
>
It really is a tour de force, isn't it? A masterwork of a diss.
Although the Zap. Cossacks are usually thought of in the West as a bunch of bloodthirsty barbarians (well, the bloodthirsty part is true), actually they produced some not bad poems and songs, some of which can be read in English translation here: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/livesay/ukraina/ukraina.html#18
(Well, Gogol's father was a Cossack, but by that time the Cossack State had been destroyed and the Cossacks assimilated by the Russian Empire, so he wasn't really a Zap.)
Lyubo, bratsy, lyubo, lyubo, bratsy, zhit!
ËÞÁÎ, ÁÐÀÒÖÛ, ËÞÁÎ, ËÞÁÎ, ÁÐÀÒÖÛ, ÆÈÒÜ!
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