Tokoro

“History becomes a guidebook for geopolitics.”
― Mark Galeotti, A Short History of Russia: How the World's Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin

“I feel that one of the reasons I enjoy having films that are historical or revisionist history or a period film is because I think it's one of the things that cinema can do best. It can do it [well] in two areas. One is that you can recreate the past in a movie and present it in a fictional way, because we know what it looked like. And the second reason is, by having time pass, you can examine the truth about something that happened in the past, because you've been able to look at it through the prism of time.”
― Robert Zemeckis

“Vladimir allegedly noting that “drinking is the joy of all Rus’. We cannot exist without that pleasure.” (Some stereotypes have a long pedigree, it seems.)”
― Mark Galeotti, A Short History of Russia: How the World's Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin

“As anyone who has spent significant time around kids knows, they often have full-blown, unprompted conversations with themselves. This isn’t just play or imagination; it’s a sign of neural and emotional growth.”
― Ethan Kross, Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It