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Elijah J Drake's avatar

You're writing is beautiful, but you need to make it pertinent. Be suggestive, be speculative, be poetic. But say and mean something. There has to be a point, not just aimless rambling.

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Vanechka's avatar

Thank you! This is in fact an old piece, my writing has certainly evolved in all areas over the past years. Retrospectively this story, I’d argue, is far from aimless—it aims to capture a certain psychophysiological condition, and the last sentence also states clearly one of the messages. However, overall my philosophy is that meaning of the text is emergent in perception, not in creation. This text, being closer to poetry than prose, embodies that philosophy (even tho it’s old as I said)

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Larisa Rimerman's avatar

I agree that the Grand Imperative demands of the guests made you endure the almost-death blizzards of the Russian cruel winter. You miraculously managed the impossible. Mayakovsky and Khlebnikov helped a little. Bravo!

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Vanechka's avatar

Thank you very much Larisa!

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