Personally I love QftD, but I have a thing about Cossacks. My ex-girlfriend's grandmother was one. She really looked it too -- the combination of Slavic facial construction and Turkic eyes that characterizes people of Cossack ancestry. You really notice it in the south of Russia, if you know what you are looking for.
--- On Thu, 2/5/09, Dorene Cornwell <dorenefc at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Dorene Cornwell <dorenefc at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] This is Your Pilot Slurring
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Thursday, February 5, 2009, 9:09 PM
> I'm way over quota for the day and it's either
> great literature or the
> litany of US-linked tortures so here goes: I had a short
> stint in college as
> a research assistant for a very famous Sholokhov scholar.
> Mostly the gig
> consisted of a bit of bibliography work like finding the
> standard English
> titles such as Quiet flows the Don and editing his articles
> into forms
> English speakers would find recognizable. The articles did
> not fill me with
> deep desire to read the original texts unfortunately,
> despite sarcastic
> comments about peasant amusements.
>