"Since I have the use of reason, Russia has inspired me afraid. As a child its size dominates the map covering the classroom wall. I remember I was colored pale green, and the Mercator projection of the deformed system so that its half a world choked tundra. Where other nations - Japan, Brazil, India - cried with imagined odors and colors, Russia was only silence and breathed somewhat incomplete. I grew up in its shadow, as my parents were raised in the shadow of Germany.
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Colin Thubron, Among the Russians, Barcelona, \u200b\u200bEdiciones Peninsula, 1986. ISBN 84-8307-369-2
... "My destiny begins to be: challenged to a duel with Dantes. Is not the violent death at the hands of a blond man I predicted a German? I already feel the power of fate, which is becoming a reality, without being able to avoid this threat, for the dishonor is worse than death.
Dishonor is a growing storm of wind generated by me. Is destroying me. Dantes assumes the form of such reprisals of fate that are caused by my weak character. By challenging Dantes, I look like Jacob, who fought against God. If you win, any dispute the laws of God and the truth shall reign forever in my skies. (...)
Within two hundred years, when likely to be abolished censorship in Russia, who first to publish his work is to my fellow Barkov, and only after this newspaper, but I can not imagine Russia without censorship. So my diary will be published first of all in Europe, or more likely in America. It's dark at that time to think not only will not be live until my bones are completely rotten ... "
Alexander Pushkin Secret Journal 1836-1837. Thoughts about sex, women and death, Mexico, Edamex, 1997. ISBN -968-409-930-4
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