Быков о Честертоне

[avva]

Чрезвычайно неумный Быков пишет о Честертоне.

Право же, как будто ушат грязной пены вылил на любимого писателя. Честертону-то ладно, а мне обидно. Спаси нас Бог от такой хвалы.

olshansky уже цитировал кусок отсюда, и я уже высказал там своё мнение, но целиком всю статью прочитал только сейчас.

Омерзительное ощущение. Хочется Быкову линейкой по пальцам, с размаху.

Comments

*sigh*

[sburn.livejournal.com]

Okay, either I'm hallucinating, all this is in a different language or.. or I'm hallucinating. Look at the pretty symbols! Aren't they funny!

Re: *sigh*

[quatermass.livejournal.com]

Nah, it's plain English, you're hallucinating, man :O)

Re: *sigh*

[sburn.livejournal.com]

I suspected as much. That's the last time I drink tap water...

they are kidding, man

[nine_k]

This was Russian. Cyrillic letters, you see.
Jewish letters were also spotted in some posts -- even funnier; these are right to left. Other languages must also be present.

Re: they are kidding, man

[sburn.livejournal.com]

They're kidding? Really? Wow! ;)

Seriously though, I'm half tempted to install foreign character sets just to satisfy my insane curiosity.

funny characters

[nine_k]

If you use reasonably recent M$ windows (which is highly probable), run 'Character map' app (charmap.exe; you may need to add it as a Windows component in 'Add programs') and see a lot of bizarre chars just by browsing through a decent unicode font, such as Arial or Tahoma.

Re: funny characters

[sburn.livejournal.com]

Or I could install the cyrillic character set into IE and then fail to read the posts for a completely different reason, namely that of not having the slightest clue about any foreign language that does not use the arabic alphabet. :)

I really need to educate myself I see...

Arabic alphabet?

[nine_k]

Man, I see you using Latin alphabet (maybe in Hertfordshire Arabic alphabet is used? though, it seems unlikely). Russian language uses Cyrillic alphabet, along with a few other European languages.
I cannot read Arabic, too. Have to educate myself, too :-)