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On the Nature of Desire.(Four Poems)(Poem)

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| January 01, 2007 | Derieva, Regina | COPYRIGHT 2007 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

 
ON THE NATURE OF DESIRE 
 
translated from the Russian by Daniel Weissbort 
 
   The Greeks had culture, the Romans 
   had culture, trash has none. 
   The Greeks philosophised, 
   competed in long-distance races, 
   worked out theorems, wrote tragedies (hardly any 
   graphomaniacs). The Romans went to their baths, 
   wrote comedies, built cities in an orderly fashion, 
   organized cohorts likewise. Trash, however, 
   remained trash and managed perfectly well without any of the ...

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