tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988046816576439468.post1346535963036466883..comments2023-11-05T00:19:25.417-07:00Comments on Rifleman Savant: Grigg, channeling Solzhenitsyn again...Kevin Wilmethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18368887768008126052noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988046816576439468.post-90023623708850485762011-08-10T00:58:30.464-07:002011-08-10T00:58:30.464-07:00Kevin - scratch that last part about the passage r...Kevin - scratch that last part about the passage request! I followed your link in an earlier post about your beginning the book to the Wiki entry and found the link to the Archive.org copy.<br /><br />Doh!<br /><br />Don't know why that didn't come up some time ago when I'd tried finding the text online...?<br /><br />Fwiw - I've a copy of the book in my 'library' - but that's been in storage for about 10 years now!Plug Nickel Outfithttp://www.plugnickeltimes.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988046816576439468.post-23588028730384882832011-08-10T00:46:10.731-07:002011-08-10T00:46:10.731-07:00Kevin - thought I'd take an opportunity to say...Kevin - thought I'd take an opportunity to say "hello". I've seen your name occasionally in comments at other sites I visit and had answered a question you had about a Solzhenitsyn attribution over at Claire's blog a couple weeks ago. At the time I checked out your blog from a link you'd left and have dropped by a couple times since.<br /><br />From some of your own posts and comments elsewhere I gather that The Gulag Archipelago has been a meaningful read for you so far - I'm not surprised. I first read it about 25 years ago and I was deeply struck by the rendering. Naturally - too - this led me to read some of his other books - First Circle, Cancer Ward, and A Day in the Life... <br /><br />I can appreciate your situation as you read the book in these times - particularly with these new-fangled interwebs at hand. It doesn't surprise me that you'd bring it up in comments and postings as you work your way through it. Back when I read it - iirc - nobody I knew wanted to discuss the book with me. Back then - I think my ex just wanted me to set it aside and put my head back into the day-to-day concerns! I can understand how she probably saw things - but it definitely seemed to me that the man had a story and a warning appropriate for any time. It certainly affected my way of regarding 'my fellow man' and their capabilities.<br /><br />Anyway - just wanted to pipe up and introduce myself. I'll be interested in seeing your comments as you continue with the story.<br /><br />Btw - there's a section of the book I've been wanting to reference for a while now - but haven't found a copy of GA around to check... When you get to it - would you mind mentioning it here on your blog? It'd be in the last 1/3 of the book when he is describing treatment of various political prisoners. The few paragraph section begins with "In 194*, in Minsk" (iirc) and ends with a statement to the effect that "one can't cry for everyone when they live in a graveyard". In between those two points he describes a 'death march'. I recall it to be a particularly moving passage but haven't been able to search it out online. I've found references to his remark about 'living in a graveyard' - but none of them include the earlier passage about the forced march.Plug Nickel Outfithttp://www.plugnickeltimes.com/noreply@blogger.com