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In a letter to Marina, his unfaithful mistress, Demon wrote: "you spoke, I suppose, to the man with whom you had spent the night (and whom I would have dispatched, had I not been overeager to castrate him)" (1.2). Demon had a sword duel with Marina's lover, Baron d'Onsky (according to Marina, a physical wreck and spiritual Samurai, who had gone to Japan forever). "From a more reliable source Demon learned the Samurai's real destination was smart little Vatican, a Riman spa..."
In A. K. Tolstoy's poem "Bunt v Vatikane" ("A Riot in Vatican," 1864) the Pope Pius IX is nearly castrated by his castrated singers.
Correction of an earlier mistake: in my post of June 6 ("Children of the Sun Horse") I wrote that Chernyshevsky died in Astrakhan. Of course, he died in Saratov, his home city. He moved there from Astrakhan in 1889, a few months before his death.
Alexey Sklyarenko
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In A. K. Tolstoy's poem "Bunt v Vatikane" ("A Riot in Vatican," 1864) the Pope Pius IX is nearly castrated by his castrated singers.
Correction of an earlier mistake: in my post of June 6 ("Children of the Sun Horse") I wrote that Chernyshevsky died in Astrakhan. Of course, he died in Saratov, his home city. He moved there from Astrakhan in 1889, a few months before his death.
Alexey Sklyarenko
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