#about fifth on the list is petersburg by andrei bely. its excellent. it will give you physical repulsion. it will linger

[minarcana]

i have been receiving and reading daily poetry emails for quite literally every day of my adult life. yet somehow every time i seek to compile collections of quotes for people, there is a solid 70% chance a line from andrei bely will creep in there, a man who normal english-speaking people have never heard of and who i obsessively read every single one of his works i get my hands on.

i feel like both of these are if not individual red flags, at least yellow ones, and they are both things that make me go "fucking of course you write urianger, you weird little fruit"

#bely is supremely uri tag. in a certain way. not in all of the ways but in a direction. #this is a feeling that only i can comprehend #bely is one of my favourite writers of all time. the first time i read his most famous book i went 'well i hated that time to never think #about it again' and then i read it four more times and own it in two languages. normal #no one knows who he is except for REEES people. #and yet everyone knows dostoevsky. personally i think dostoevsky is Tedious. #ooc #me looking at my high school self like 'and you thought you couldnt possibly be a libarts major. you fool.' #anyways if anyone ever wants poetry to read first off i recommend amichai #about fifth on the list is petersburg by andrei bely. its excellent. it will give you physical repulsion. it will linger #petersburg is described as the russian equivalent to james joyce's ulysses which ironically i have not read #i dont know how this tag section became Dezember's Literary Discussion Circle Of One Man Discussing but here we are #no im not deleting any of them #this is a stream of consciousness adventure and now youre just on this ride with me #if you read petersburg you should also read the silver dove but only after i tell you the absolutely incredible saga of its origin #kotik letaev is also p good once ur used to belys bullshit. i named my cat letaev bc he is my kotik. thank u