Would you like #AGentlemanInMoscow? Lots of plates and furnishings by @amortowles. 1926–Russians have mastered temperature–or rather, some have orchestrated control for the masses. Meanwhile, Germany fights each other where to a Count, a white lie will suffice. #PlayingHookeyFromPHOTOSHOOT
Yes, the Russians have mastered temperature. See, A Gentleman In Moscow (Viking Press, 2016) at the chapter entitled, 1926. Hitchhiking in Germany, the driver told me the Germans were no match for the Russians. He had seen it personally on the steppes. They’d get up from the frozen ground covered in snow, brush themselves off brusquely, then carry on with the fight! Just then, drivers in the two lanes to his right on the autobahn have a skirmish ending in the sports car cut off the third driver, speeding away. “See!” he said, “Germans are still fighting! They fight with each other! Everyday!”
Compare, Not prepared unless you feel confident you are prepared.–#Buddha paraphrase
Good excuse to play hookey. #PhotoUpdate #Chinese are not #Russian. @amortowles #AGentlemanInMoscow at 150. I heard a Soviet man lived to 163 back in the 1960’s or 70’s. Longest living: grain agro-economy combined with light labor on the threshing floor. Maybe what he breathes.
Good excuse to play hookey. #PhotoUpdate #Chinese are not #Russian. @amortowles #AGentlemanInMoscow at 150. I heard a Soviet man lived to 163 back in the 1960’s or 70’s. Longest living: grain agro-economy combined with light labor on the threshing floor. Maybe what he breathes makes a difference as well?
Got one of those recordings this morning on my voicemail, “This is to inform you the IRS is filing a legal warrant…”
JOHN RUBENS is no Mother Teresa. 