Pynchonesque [undecided]

Here’s some bits I remember seeing here before:

Vasily Gromadsky, an officer of the 60th Army, offered the description: “I realized that they were prisoners and not workers so I called out, ‘You are free, come out!’… They began rushing towards us, in a big crowd. They were weeping, embracing us, and kissing us. I felt a grievance on behalf of mankind that these fascists had made such a mockery of us. It roused me and all the soldiers to go and quickly destroy them and send them to hell.”

Georgii Elisavetskii, another of the first Soviet soldiers to enter the camp, admitted in 1980 that ‘My blood runs cold when I mention Auschwitz even now’. He described the liberation in dramatic detail: “When I entered the barrack, I saw living skeletons lying on three tiered bunks. As in fog, I hear my soldiers saying: ‘You are free, comrades!’ I sense that they do not understand us and begin speaking to them in Russian, Polish, German, Ukrainian dialects; unbuttoning my leather jacket, I show them my medals… Then I use Yiddish. Their reaction is unpredictable. They think that I am provoking them. They begin to hide. And only when I said to them: ‘Do not be afraid, I am a colonel of Soviet Army and a Jew. We have come to liberate you’… Finally, as if the barrier collapsed… they rushed towards us shouting, fell on their knees, kissed the flaps of our overcoats, and threw their arms around our legs.”

The Dispossessed - and Le Guin in general - is amazing.

Didn’t Stalin have a fucked up arm from an accident when he was a kid or something though?

No that was Hu Jintao

Also Limmy on TikTok :sicko-yes:

Yeah. The main character is in Derry a bit when he travels back in time and he meets Beverly and Richie(if I remember correctly) from It.

He’s been streaming full-time for quite a while

Limmy remembers

Lenin!

Also the ferengi if Gene got his way:

One influence on the Ferengi was what Herb Wright described as Gene Roddenberry’s “sex fetish.” In early first season discussions between them about developing the Ferengi, Roddenberry let Wright know it was his intention to make the species well-endowed. “He wanted to put a gigantic codpiece on the Ferengi,” Wright stated. “He spent 25 minutes explaining to me all the sexual positions the Ferengi could go through. I finally said, 'Gene, this is a family show, on at 7:00 on Saturdays. He finally said, ‘Okay, you’re right.’”