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WHAT YOUNG RUSSIA WANTS TO READ
By BARLEY ALISON
L
RECENT visitor to
Russia, hoping to gain ~ Miù Alison broadcasts an insight into the on art and "international subjects in which the So affairs and contributes viet-reading-public are in--articles on these sub terested, eagerly inspected jects to • number of the well-filled suggestion periodicals. During the worked with books he found in Moscow war she book shops. To his sur the French Resistance prise, the pages were filled at its base in North with requests for books by. Africa, and was after- Russian authors whose words on, the staff of the works are out of print. British Embassy, Paris..
In the main the requests were from young people,
names XC-
work of satire should have to die with theh.” 2a-
H's plea was ignored, and now the books are published only in America - country which, ironically was also satirised by-
I and Petrov. Possibly the Soviet authorities doubt whether life in Russia has, after all changed very much since the bad old twenties,
The students' Interest 11 Esenin's poetry is particularly significant. He epitomised the disillusionment which the reali- ties of the Revolution brought to idealistic Russians,
Not To Taste
and the two most sought ents. This may have been after books were by Ilf and an attempt to give greater Petrov, The
weight to the suggestions,
Esenin was born in 1895, of eurred once, sometimes or it may have been thought
offer some protection peasant stock, and grew up in twice, on every page. Next to
an. atmosphere of religious. in popularity were the col against the risk of official traditionalism. When the Re lected works of the poet displeasure. But, whatever.volution broke out, he welcomed Esenin, and third the works the motive, it is clear that it with enthusiasm, since he saw the hope of a peasant of Dostoievsky.
a great many students are in i
had Uttle Requests for these works sick of the books they are paradise. But he
sympathy for the Communist had, in most cases, been encouraged to read and are Party's real aims. signed by groups of stud- prepared to voice their dis-
satisfaction if given the opinion between Esenin and the chance.
EXPERIENCE COMES BEFORE SCIENCE
By H. Day
At first, the difference of
Soviet leaders was not apparent, and he was acclaimed
as the I and Petrov, Esenin and poct of the new society. It was Dostoievsky seem, to have not long, however, betore he nothing in common except that discovered that the Revolution all are unpopular with the au- was not to his taste. thorities and, consequently, an in. 1922 he turned his back obtainable. All at one time on Russia and married
dancer, Isadora enjoyed reputations which make American
Duncan. When his marriage it inevitable that serious
broke
rowdy up, he set out on students
modern Russian and drunken tour of the world, of
to study
the
the
+
literature must have heard. of but by 1923 he was back again thera, and
natural that they in Moscow, honestly trying to should wish
adjust himself to the new re- gime. originals for themselves.
But the attempt was Failure, and his poems became more critical and more pessi- mistic until he committed suicide in 1925. "The stern October bas deceived me," he wrote with disillusioned frank-
J
Collaborators
if and Petrov were jour- alists who collaborated
writing successful books over a
ness.
"to be working, at least on him, that morning. · Puzzled and a little scared, he visited the nearest chemist and stood on his scales, which period of ten years. Two of The last collection of Esenin's registered no more than 12 them, The Twelve Chairs and works was published in 1946,
Golden Calt published very carefully edited.
It left lb-the weight of this "The it clothes!
in 1928 and 1933, have a com- out many of his best
No Answer
CIENCE is begin- ning to overcome its destructive sceptic- ism of some of the simpler forms of healing. Dr Henry Sigerist, of John Hopkins, one of the leading
Before the Second World "underground and see medical authorities in America, has said: "It is Wari a Mrs Sparkes, who telepathically." very unscientific to deny the practised as an osteopath in
Littlejohn used to dis experience of two thousand Bournemouth, possessed the
unique gift of seeing concert visitors by saying: years merely because
through the human body. "You left home at 10.15 by have no ready-made theory
She yould listen to the back gate, walked that explains all phenomena
a muddy lane, Psychic Research in detail. It would have symptoms, then look at the through
patient and say: "There is a caught a bus, stood all the scientide bodies been foolish, to deny the little bone displaced in the way in a crowded train next Beck's case, but could find no i existence of lightning be base of your neck, probably to a woman in a red hat, and satisfactory answer for his in- cause electricity yet known. Experience has due to a fall you had in preceded science more than childhood, Lie down and
shall put it right."
Once."
we
not was
Human beings vary vast- ly, and very little interfer- ence sometimes has startling
Suddenly
1
had a cup of coffee and two biscuits in a tea shop before coming here." always right.
He sometimes
He Was
1
voluntary levitation. He could
not keep his job, for he kept rising into the air, so with that
determined to
somersaults
characters
to have
been
Revolution
known
No Explanation
mon hero, a gay, irresponsible poems, including some that had rogue called Osteg Bender. In been greatly admired when he "The Twelve Chairs he is in Brst wrote them. pursuit of a collection of dia- monds known hidden in one of a set
a set of chairs The American Society for dispersed during.
andi other In "The Golden Calf" he
That Russian students should investigated sora, one of several. Frete
to the honour of being the son wish to study Dostoievsky needs of Lieutenant Schindet, hero of no explanation. He is, perhaps, the Potemkin mutiny of 1905.
the best known of the great Russian novelists, and no public Dif's
Petrov's minor library in the Western world and
were corrupt
a shelf of off- would cinis, gangsters, confidence works.
Soviet shrewd sense with which so
tricksters
**and ridiculously however, is lucky if he can
ret many Americans are gifted, be gullible citizens. The result hold of a
capitalise his was an entertaining,
and, If he be a but un- Punishment of Crime and helped misfortune. He opened a show flattering, picture of Soviet life young student, he is unlikely. friends to trace objects they and charged admission fees to in the 1920e.
ever to have seen the other novels, since they have
been had lost or mislaid. He told those who wished to see him "The Golden Calf was re unobtainable for years. Since results for which no one can She cured dozens of a woman, whose jawels had lolling in mid-air reading a issued shortly after the Second 1948 there has not even been a
World War The body patients who had gone the been stolen, exactly what book, or turning
and "The Twelve cical study of Dostoevsky's offer a reason.
Chairs in 1948, but those re- work. then seems to transcend all rounds of the hospitals had happened to them, and gently above their heads.
sponsible were sharply criticised laws of Nature, and still without success. And this said they would be replaced
It is unlikely that the Soviet In gift descended suddenly in by the person who had taken
When something goes wrong for publishing books irrelevant
will accede to continue to function.
society authorities or interferes with the buzman to contemporary Soviet our ignorance we call such the course of her work. One them. They were. On one in all sorts of terrifying At the 14th Plenum of the student demands
body of the Union of inspiring reading matter. people "freaks," simply be morning she was massaging occasion he traced a missing, mirgs may happen. In
1931 governing hos in October 1953, dead hand of Party control over
Soviet Cause we do not know the a patient when she realised man telepathically," · and
and scientists in
reimposed tried reasons for their strange be- that she could see right found him in Australia!
Writers' Congress Ilf and Petrov to terature was firmly hospital at Le Nieppe tried to
in the December 1854. Although the haviour.
But the sug- girl arguing that, through her " body-bones,
probe the tide of a
gardener's darker side of life and the gestion books provide a fascinat- muscles and nerve centres.
named Marcelle, a
negative types of the twenties ing glimpse of young Rusalang About 30 years ago a Mrs She then specialised not on
daughter, who, had lost
reflected in the books had who are intellectually alive and Mable Ashworth, later to be physical ailments, but on
memory and was found wan- largely died
he saw no who feel themaives "deceffed known as the "Miracle the mentally deranged. With
dering For months she was reason why Mother of Corby," was sit them she had phenomenul
If Professor Littlejohn kept under observation, then ting on the sands near the
could see into the past and one day, she bugad to talk, not pier at Blackpool, England,
across oceans and continents in her own tongue, but in. when someone threw a stone Another "freak" is a man and there is little doubt Germian, English, Italian, named Harry Kahne, who that he could then, the Spanish, and finály in Russian! went to London a few years Versailles Incident, in which Why this ago and was billed in a 2 headmistress and a friend should suddenly" burst into famous theatre where he while walking in France saw learned monologues in strange baffled audiences with his a complete reproduction of tongues, no one has ever been act. Kahne maintained that a pre-Revolutionary scene, able to explain. Change In Life people use only one-tenth of becomes credible.
that knocked her uncon scious. When she recover ed, she discovered that the desire to eat was lost.
success.
their brain power, and in this
No Trickery
doctors
anter D
her
uneducated girl
a
We know, of course, why man grows to be seven or eight
we have not yet discovered the
a ring was feet fall; why he is a dwart. A nerve in her throat was he was in line with fore. Once, when affected and she found she moat scientific opinion. He lost, Littlejohn led the man. Often we know what it is that could not swallow solids, could write apside down and who lost it through a wood, makes a cretin or an idiot. But Milk became her staple food. backwards, add up figures as then stood and pointed and sewer of genius. She could not drink tea un- fast as they were put down there it lay. The odds less it was very sweet, but single figures or in blocks, against this being a mere in this form took not less vertically, horizontally or coincidence than 4 lb of sugar a week, diagonally. He could read, billions to one that we can She continued in good health write and calculate at the dismiss it. for some 20 years, and for, same time, and he could
decipher mirror writing, all I know, is still alive.
Not A Freak
are
so many
More Known
the
There are scores of men who can see through silin.. objects And what about people and whose brains act as radio
Tag: these who bring apports out of the pets, Powers ach 8.50
air?There is no trickery sering through opaque objects, about that. They are always list of miles away, and
getting There are people in whom 25.00
music out of the air, to mccrages delivered searched, placed in sealed 35.00 some change has taken
place, either before or after...
cages and watched by re levitating one's body, can be developed, so the youls of the birth, or even late in life,"
Kahne was not a freak. liable citizens, yet they pro- East tell us. Some of them even for which doctors cannot He had merely mastered a duce fish, birds and objects seem to know-how. We on account, but which makes system of mental develops that existed centuries ago. other hand, on y at- more them act differently from ment that was his own What Is their power? Where than 1,000 miles an hour, push normal human beings. secret. It earned him a fat do they get it? As we can't deep under water, and destroy aside the sound barrier, travel 1.00 suggest that healers are of Hving. 4.50 this type. Sometimes they
we call them fakers..
few seconds atom bombs. 10.00 are born with the power to Professor J. J. Littlejohn,
old Ideas have been heal; it comes on of Oxford Univer. And what can we 24.00 then suddenly through some sity, was another. He had a about Reynard Beck who revised, Mest known about the keys to personality;" 15.00 experience or accident; but brain like a radio receiving lived in the little town of brain, the the nerves," occasionally this power is station, for it received Dexter, Kansas? One mor Perhaps in the future subjects developed by the kind of colour, thought and speech ning he discovered to his now clasexi, as occult will be.
come life they lead, a life of de waves through the air. "As dismay that his feet were tucation, wat we shall votion and sacrifice to the a boy," he said, "I used to lifting off the ground for no read un od "freaks in cause of humanity, which sit on the cliffs of, Devon reason at all. He tried to sit, stead of pissing them to in SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. LTD. moulds and improves the and gaze at the ships that but found that his posterior fuis or subjecting thera KOWLOON mind and infuses mind and sailed there centuries ago, I was an inch off the seat. The the humility of being goped
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