Enough of this laziness and doing nothing! Open this notebook every day and write down half a page at the very least. If you have nothing to write down, then at least, following Gogol’s advice, write down that today there’s nothing to write.
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Mar
08
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“Lynch Law” by Daniil Kharms
Petrov gets on his horse and, addressing the crowd, delivers a speech about what would happen if, in place of the public garden, they’d build an American skyscraper. The crowd listens and, it seems, agrees. Petrov writes something down in his notebook. A man of medium height emerges from the crowd and asks Petrov what he wrote down in his notebook. Petrov replies that it concerns himself alone. The man of medium height presses him. Words are exchanged and discord begins. The crowd takes the side of the man of medium height and Petrov, saving his life, drives his horse on and disappears around the bend. The crowd panics and, having no other victim, grabs the man of medium height and tears off his head. The torn-off head rolls down the street and gets stuck in the hatch of a sewer drain. The crowd, having satisfied its passions, disperses.
“The Meeting” by Daniil Kharms
Now, one day a man went to work and on the way he met another man, who, having bought some Polish bread, was heading back home where he came from.
And that’s it, more or less.
