pusik

| Caty | young, but very talented photographer with National Geographic in the CV | alpha, beta |
| Chris | a travelling philosopher from University of California, Berkeley | yet unknown to the wider public |

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A short conversation taking place in the distant future, where Pus is already a robot, but Robert Burns is still remembered.



Credits: kaplusda for reading, birdies for the twitter, Robert Burns for "The Red, Red Rose", Marge Piercy for "He, She and It"

What the frog's eye tells the frog's brain might not be what the frog's eye tells the frog.

"Man against God?
God against Man?
Man against Man?
Nature against Man?
Man against Nature?..

Very funny religion."


citing Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki as cited by Joseph Campbell in "The Power of Myth"

one quarter Russian after my grandmother from the mother's side who was a descendant from the Terek Cossacks
one quarter Jew after my grandfather from the mothers side
one quarter Tatar after my father's father
one eighth Belarussian
and one eighth Pole.

If Kasia (she is nearly 100% Pole with negligible Roma impurities) and I ever have children, they will be
1*1/2 1/8*1/2=9/16 Poles, which is 56.25% Poles
and 6.25% Belarussians
and 12.5% Tatars
and 12.5% Jews
and 12.5% Russians.

This hopefully sums up to a whole 100% human being and makes the importance of these calculations itself be negligible.

The silence is thick with hopes dissolving into the thin air.
I will be better, when they're gone.
This foggy sign of a breath on a cold window won't last.
It won't last, don't worry.
The foggy souls of hope are weak.
They give up to the pressing cold of present.
They will be back though, they will reincarnate.
The cold silence will be broken again with their living breath.

She took upon herself the obligation to buy contraceptives, because he is, well, too shy to do that.
In return he occasionally buys the pregnancy tests.

When I was still new in Berlin I was always looking around very carefully every time I used the public transport. Everything was so interesting. It was a quite unusual behaviour and the co-passengers, disturbed by my inquisitive look, would stare back. Maybe they wanted to see in me what I saw in them, who knows. Anyhow, nowadays, be it in train, bus or tram, I only wish not to be disturbed from the printed paper that I read, like everybody else.

Yesterday, the train was empty enough for me to assume I was traveling alone. An old lady located two seats away didn't require any recognition for her existence and I didn't notice her presence until later. In contrast to me she was not holding any printed paper in front of her and, thus, she was not traveling alone.

When the train was passing Harlem Neukölln and the edges of my field of vision (i.e. beyond the white rectangular) started to fill with an unnecessary motion and my field of hearing – with phrases that didn't fit the context of what I was reading, the old lady spoke to me. She wanted to draw my attention to three female figures of Hindu origin that just entered the train. All three were wearing long blue skirts with a spangled frill and pink coats. Due to their colourful outfit and their distribution of heights they would create a perfect set of matreshka dolls, fitting one inside the other, if they would not be so slim.

– Black children! That's what they're better at than us – producing children, black children, &ndash I heard the old lady saying. Then, still looking at me, she repeated her "Schwarze Kinder!" once again, but with a tone that was now almost begging for understanding. I kept on staring at the white space between the letters on my printed paper.

Mind the gap!
(London Underground)

Bitte beachten Sie beim Ausstieg die Lücke zwischen dem Zug und der Bahnsteigkante!
(Berliner U-Bahn)

Yo, man! If you first get all sad and shit in the morning and then your head aches till you swallow the mother-fucker half a gram in the evening, does it mean you're seriously ill or is it just life, man?

"You know, right now is one of those happiest moments of my life. I know it because the scary thoughts just came — of disease, of death. Sometimes I think these are some sort of a proof that I am really happy."

C for Cut down drinking
A for Annoyance
G for Guilt
E for Eyes opener

1. Have you ever felt you should cut down on your drinking?
2. Have people annoyed you by criticizing your drinking?
3. Have you ever felt bad or guilty about your drinking?
4. Have you ever had a drink first thing in the morning to steady nerves or get rid of a hangover?

Scoring: Two or three affirmative answers should create a high index of suspicion. Four positive answers indicate alcoholism.

* Выделенные курсивом слова заменить в зависимости от личных приоритетов.

You: indecisive, but willing to plan the future
I: decidedly unwilling to look at the remote

You: unsure of what will come
I: sure that the future is uncertain

You: afraid not to make plans
I: afraid that the plans won't last

It is somehow peculiar that all these people around me can move.
They know nothing about you. Only I do. What exactly sets them going?
Existences that do not include you seem to be irrelevant.

It is one of the underestimated advantages of a steady relationship over a pride-swollen solitude – you have an excuse to buy yourself flowers!