To Dr. Oohay

[Cornelius Hamelberg]

Dr. Oohay,

I suppose Solzhenitsyn is one of your favourite authors.

What about Tolstoy?

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=122176924016069853&set=a.122129509298069853

Wa Thiong’o ?

 I suspect that one of the reasons why the Nobel Prize eluded him was because his writing Petals of Blood was actually facilitated by the Soviet Writers Union - and ( me and my suppositions) I supposed that there are eminent literary judges among us who don’t like the whiff of communism appearing in any shape or form in  Wa Thiong’o‘s  polemics. The misleading and negatively suggestive title of of his other novel “ Devil on the Cross” was bad enough,,, 

Dr. Oohay, because of your frequent anti-communist yabs, inevitably, I thought of you when I read this piece (https://www.orthodoxethos.com/post/the-prophet-of-the-last-days-saint-arsenios-boca-of-romania?u

about Saint Arsenios Boca of Romania

And what do you have to say about this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLSaEdqLcOo

Are you or are you not impressed by this : CHINA…has eradicated poverty 

[Dr. Oohay]

In general, I appreciate Russian fiction, including poems (LONG and short), but I most especially appreciate DOSTOEVSKY (perhaps, the greatest of them all); he never dodges the paradoxical realities and ideals of life (especially human life). Solzhenitsyn uber-opened my (quasi naive) eyes to the underbelly of the (red) beast. 

Oohay.

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