Daily Archives: March 21, 2003

For the times…

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The Theory’s method of signing out made me think of this.

I do hope for peace.

This is my favorite
MIR-
The russian (and generally slavic) word for peace. If you write it like this:
MUP
It looks closer to the cyrillic letters.

I like it because the same exact word, same exact spelling, same exact pronunciation means
WORLD

So,
MIRA MIR

or
MUPA MUP

means “peace for the world”

mirnyy
or
MUPHUU

means
“peaceful”

this is the name of the town in Yakutia, Russia that I lived in for a year.
It was peaceful, and I am grateful that it was peaceful when I was there, in 1992.

Moscow had just been less peaceful.

That is my personal favorite word for peace.

Mir, mira mir, dla vcex

peace, world peace, for all.

Lookit all the books!

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Someone just posted reference to the 100 best novels in the English Language from the 20th Century.

Here is the list. Conveniently, the webauthor included links for a lot of the books. Thank you!

This is a neat list of books. I’ve read a lot of them, but maybe I’ll try to read some more of them.

I don’t think I agree that these are the hundred best. But “best” is a highly subjective word.

Let’s just say they are good, and maybe I’ll use it as a guide for some new books to try.