ARKADY MINSKOFF
Have you ever read him? A
Russian writer, friend of Tolstoy
and Gogol too. He wrote of the
future long before even the past
was done. Curious. He spanned
his times and people. Omni.
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There is no word for omni in
Russian, so of course he never
used it - though discerning
readers always sensed what he
meant. The Winter Palace? He,
in Gorky Park, travelling with
his two regal greyhounds.
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When Lenin said, 'These are orders,'
of course he had to be shot; slain
like a pedophile in a confessional
booth: Brimming with the fire of
the occasion. The nation mourned;
but so quickly in its passing it was
over. He had written of that future,
long before it was a past.
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