Status Updates From Nadar Num Lago à Chuva

I feel like I have learned so much, and it is only the beginning!

“Man needs not six feet of earth, not a farm, but the whole globe, all of Nature, where unhindered he can display all the capacities and peculiarities of his free spirit.”

From “Gooseberries” by Anton Chekhov.

Well, Nikolai Gogol sure is…something. “The Nose” was an absurdist tale of a man who, well, loses his nose. Hijinks ensue.

„Offenbar fühlt sich der Glückliche nur deshalb wohl, weil die Unglücklichen ihre Last schweigend tragen, und ohne dieses Schweigen wäre das Glück nicht möglich.“ Tschechow, Stachelbeeren