Author: Rauf Aliev

The director managed to fit everything into 10 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1A_hGo9UEc

Lately, I’ve rediscovered Splean for myself. I can’t listen to the old stuff anymore, it’s worn out to holes. How much Vasiliev managed to write in 26 years. Sixteen albums. And lately, a lot of good stuff. “Behind Seven Seals”, “Run, My Life”, “Djinn”, “Hot Air Balloon”, “Anthem”, “Magic Violin”, “Warmth of the Home”, “Temple”, and, here, something relevant about Harry Potter.

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Harry, I bid farewell to you with this,

As one poet to another, how shall I say,

Allow me to finish with just one verse

Before saying Adieu.

Yesterday the king walked all cool and proud

And a boy said: “But the king is naked”,

They immediately broke the boy’s head off his legs

And pinned a charge on him.

Now he doesn’t drink lemonade from bottles,

Now he sits either in Kresty or in Butyrka,

Sometimes he furrows his brows, sometimes he scratches his back head,

But doesn’t understand why.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlP4RVbQMpg

We are having problems with treating Nadya’s mother, in case someone can help with recommendations. It’s a complicated situation

Oh, what fine fellows! Good books, go ahead and download

Good

multi-step strategy

Why couldn’t the condensate from the car air conditioner be routed to the washer fluid reservoir?

An interesting pattern appeared after slamming the trunk lid. A wave?

I decided to check if it’s time to change the windshield wiper since last December, but there’s a tank under the engine. Let’s hope the sensors react in time.

On January 31st, Liza had her annual snowball fight “cadets vs civilians” on campus (We were at Liza’s place today in Blacksburg, Virginia Tech)

Reading Game of Thrones in the original. Incredibly interesting even after the series. The language becomes very simple once you get into it and figure out the terminology of the world of Games and various medieval stuff like chainmail (in English – mail).

Periodically, there are quite murky sentences where the author decided to show off his full word-formation prowess. Can’t find good examples anymore, but here’s a so-so example on the current page:

Stout, jowly Janos Slynt puffed himself up like an angry frog, his bald pate reddening.

#english

Here’s a good review of the language there:

https://langformula.ru/game-of-thrones/#3