The radio station was playing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a sure sign that things were much worse than they appeared.

Asthmatic immigrant learns to breathe by writing.

My hair would continue to gray, and then one day, it would fall out entirely, and then, on a day meaninglessly close to the present one, meaninglessly like the present one, I would disappear from the earth. And all these emotions, all these yearnings, all these data, if that helps to clinch the enormity of what I'm talking about, would be gone. And that's what immortality means. It means selfishness. My generations belief that each one of us matters more than you or anyone else would think.

The radio station was playing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a sure sign that things were much worse than they appeared.

In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true. America has become more like Russia: a kleptocratic society.

By reading this message you are denying its existence and implying consent.

Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.