****** Headed straight in a familiar direction, I entered the desert…
******* Not far from that place is the building where the Dictionary of Technology will be authored 40 years later.
******** The later development of events showed that the visions of the Grand Master became a reality. It was no accident that the architect Speer was at the very top of the Nazi hierarchy, just as it was no accident that Tatlin’s project for the monument at the 3rd International was a slightly modified structure of the Tower of Babylon.
******** In the jargon of the camps, the words “charge,” “camp,” “sentence” were never used. Inmates usually used euphemisms in their communication with one another.
******** On his numerous journeys, Kowalsky stayed in Tibet several times and sojourned twice on Mt. Athos. In 1938, he spent two months in the Sinai desert with the monks, feeding on roots and insects. Kowalsky destroyed his notes from those journeys, and his diary as well.
******** Lenin himself had a bad, practically degrading, opinion of the personality of J. Humbert-Droz. In his Letter to Inessa Armand, (editor’s note) Lenin calls him “Tolstoy’s philistine.”
******** Evangelical Bicyclists: an athletic-esoteric association of refined and idle intellectuals, one of many that sprang up like mushrooms between the two World Wars. Some people are of the opinion that the legend of the bicyclists is just the advertising gimmick of one of the bicycle factories. (editor’s note)
******** There are some indications that, in the 1930s, the KGB formed a brigade for action in the dream-world, but that J. V. Stalin did away with it because it was unscientific.
******** If I had not given the superintendent the pen, that gentleman would have given him one, and I would have ended up on the gallows. That’s how things are connected.