nEWOZMOVNO POWERITX ^TO iGORQ I aNI NET. kAK-TO DIKO PISATX O TOM ^TO Q O NIH POMN@, TAK KAK ONI BYLI ^ASTX@ MOEGO SU]ESTWOWANIQ DOLGIE GODY, I Q NE MOGU POWERITX ^TO WSE \TO W PRO[LOM. q SLY[U BULXKA@]IJ SMEH iGORQ, Q SLY[U ZWONKIJ GOLOS aNI... pO^EMU-TO TAK WY[LO, ^TO Q WIDELA iGORQ POSLEDNEJ. oN ZA[EL KO MNE W MIT ZA LYVAMI, aNXKA VDALA EGO W MA[INE, Q EE NE WIDELA W TOT DENX, TOLXKO GOWORILA PO TELEFONU ZA ^AS DO IH OT_EZDA. {EL SNEG, I NA Memorial Drive WOZLE MIT MA[INY POLZLI MEDLENNO-MEDLENNO. q PERESPROSILA iGORQ ^TO VE ONI WSE VE RE[ILI EHATX, A TAKVE KOGDA MY S NIM, NAKONEC, POIGRAEM IGRATX W PING-PONG. oN OTWETIL - NA SLEDU]EJ NEDELE. a POTOM ON U[EL W \TOT SNEG. kARMAN EGO KURTKI BYL OTODRAN, I Q EMU WSLED SKAZALA: "kAKOJ-TO TY DRANENXKIJ", A ON HIHIKNUL I OTWETIL: "dA, WOT Q TAKOJ". wOT I WSE. a PERED \TIM WE^EROM BYLA CELAQ VIZNX. mY WSTRETILISX S iGOREM W WOSXMOM KLASSE, TO ESTX KOGDA NAM OBOIM BYLO PO 14 LET. iGORX BYL MENX[E MENQ ROSTOM, A NOGI U NEGO UVE BYLI EGO WZROSLOGO 44GO RAZMERA. mNE KAZALOSX PO^EMU-TO \TO O^ENX SME[NYM: MALENXKIJ MALX^IK S BOLX[IMI NOGAMI. oN TOGDA ^ITAL NAIZUSTX dVEROM k. dVEROMA W |STONII. i STESNQLSQ, KOGDA Q EGO PROSILA POTOM E]E PRO^ESTX TO ^TO ON UVE ODNAVDY ^ITAL. pO^EMU-TO W DEWQTYJ KLASS ON UVE PRI[EL WYROS[IM I SMOTREL SWERHU WNIZ. oN WSEGDA WYHWATYWAL SUMKI U DEWO^EK, (KAK-TO MY HODILI W KINO - iGORX I [ESTX ILI SEMX DEWO^EK, I ON NES WSE NA[I SUMKI -- DRUGIE WARIANTY NE RASSMATRIWALISX). w DESQTOM KLASSE ON PRI[EL S MONTERSKIM ^EMODAN^IKOM W KOTOROM PEREWALIWALISX WNUTRI SO STUKOM KNIGI -- \TO UVE POTOM fINKELXBERG STAL TASKATX TAKOJ VE, A iGORX, NAOBOROT PERESTAL, MOVET POTOMU ^TO \TIM ^EMODANOM BYLO O^ENX ZABAWNO POBITX PO GOLOWE, A iGORX NE MOG DATX SDA^I TEM BOLEE DEWO^KE. i Q \TIM POLXZOWALASX, ^TOBY POPROBOWATX ZWUK EGO ^EMODAN^IKA OB EGO VE GOLOWU. iGORX UVE TOGDA PISAL STIHI, UDIWITELXNYE: Q OBIDELASX KAK-TO NA NEGO ZA RUGANX cWETAEWOJ, KOTORU@ Q TOGDA O^ENX L@BILA. w KA^ESTWE PRIMIRENIQ ON NAPISAL MNE STIHI. oN BYL OSTROUMEN I SME[LIW. q POMN@ EGO "nU I U^ITELQ U NAS : lEW nILOWI^ I tIGR gER[EWI^!" bYLO MNOGO E]E ^EGO, sLOBODKIN BYL S NAMI. |TO BYLO RADOSTNO I ^UDESNO. nAM, NA[EMU KLASSU O^ENX POWEZLO, ^TO U NAS BYL wULXF mARKOWI^. |TO IMENNO U iGORQ BYL TAKOJ PAPA, STAW[IJ MNOGIM IZ NA[EGO KLASSA BLIZKIM ^ELOWEKOM. a POTOM MY E]E POZNAKOMILISX S nATALXEJ aRKADXEWNOJ - \TO TOVE BYLO BEZUMNO INTERESNO. e]E Q WDRUG WSPOMINA@ mOLDAWI@, 9YJ KLASS. mY PYTAEMSQ UBEDITX zIBROWA, ^TO NADO POPROBOWATX MESTNOGO MOLODOGO WINA. nO sA[A NE SOGLA[AETSQ. nAROD WSE RAWNO IDET ZA WINOM WTAJNE OT NEGO, I POTOM UVE O^ENX TRUDNO UBEDITX iGORQ, ^TO NE NADO \TO WINO WYLIWATX, NEMOTRQ NA ZAPRET sA[I zIBROWA. iDET O^ENX DLINNAQ DISKUSSIQ, NO iGORX DOLGO STOQL NA POZICII: wYLITX, TAK KAK INA^E MY OBMANYWAEM zIBROWA. pOMOGLI LOGI^ESKIE RASSUVDENIQ -- MORALXNO EGO BY POBEDITX NE UDALOSX. mNOGIE nOWYE gODA SPRAWLQLISX U iGORQ -- KAK-TO U NEGO BYLO ^ETYRE ELKI W KWARTIRE I ^TOBY IH WSEH RASSTAWITX -- ODNU iGORX PRIWESIL K L@STRE PARALLELXNO POLU. pARU RAZ MY DARILI DRUG DRUGU MELKIE PODARKI (WSE PRISUTSTWU@]IE) I SO^INQLI MALENXKIE STI[KI K PODARKAM. q POMN@ ODNO iGOREWO: dOKAVU TEBE Q, kO[KA, kAK L@BL@ TEBQ Q PYLKO: wOT TEBE BOLX[AQ LOVKA, i GORAZDO BOLX[E WILKA. pOSLE TRETXEGO KURSA Q BYLA NA kAM^ATKE I PISALA OTTUDA PISXMA. iGORX PRISLAL MNE ODNO PISXMO S bELOGO MORQ, SOSTOQ]EE IZ ^EGO-TO NEPONQTNOGO NO PO STRUKTURE POHOVEGO NA STIHI, TAK I OKAZALOSX POSLE NESKOLXKIH ^ASOW RABOTY. iGORE^EK ZA[IFROWAL pU[KINSKOE "pQTNADCATX LET MNE SKORO MINET..." q EMU W OTWET NAPISALA ^TO ON HULIGANSKAQ MORDA. eTO EMU PO^EMU-TO PONRAWILOSX I ON INOGDA POTOM TAK I OBOZNA^AL SEBQ KOGDA DELAL ^TO-TO HULIGANSKOE: "q - MORDA". oSENX@ POSLE TOGO LETA Q UZNALA ^TO UMER DIREKTOR BIOSTANCII, iGORX EHAL W POEZDE NA bbs, NE ZNAL \TOGO I [IFROWAL STIHI pU[KINA, A POTOM EMU UVE NE PISALOSX W TO LETO. mNE KAZALOSX, ^TO ON ZRQ NE PO[EL W LINGWISTIKU. eMU BEZUMNO NRAWILOSX IGRATX SO SLOWAMI, RAZGLAGOLXSTWOWATX O STRUKTURE QZYKA. q POMN@ ODIN RAZGOWOR ZDESX, W bOSTONE UVE, KOGDA iGORX OB_QSNQL ^TO W ANGLIJSKOM SU]ESTWUET PO KRAJNEJ MERE ^ETYRE SPOSOBA PROIZNO[ENIQ BUKWY "t". e]E WOT IZ EGO EMAJLA OT Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1993 17:33:36 -0400 (EDT) As to phonetics, I just had a fight with a couple of guys about rhymes, meters and stuff. A british guy said you could pronounce "our" as two syllables, but still you could never rhyme world and quarreled, because the latter is really two syllables, and the former is exactly one. Try saying it as a single syllable. And try searating syllables in "quarreled". If you rhyme "our" with "power", it shows you are copying a low-status speech. High status would be "our" and "star", although it's not really exact. But it's more acceptable for poetry. I just wanted to make a verse out of "this work is about diversity of the three dimensional world", and I couldn't find a rhyme, I asked for help and was astounded. This language is bizarre. You wanted an e-mail by six o'clock - (Surprisingly, that's a slant rhyme with "walk") And here I am sitting, inspired, but dumb. Waiting for verbal resourses to come. By the way, the first line is out of meter again. Mail is one syllable. Be lenient. Mark Hanson SKAZAL MNE ^TO ON BYL ODNIM IZ ETIH "couple of guys", ONI S iGOREM MOGLI ^ASAMI OBSUVDATX PODOBNYE WOPROSY. oDNAKO POHOWE ^TO BIOLOGIQ ZAHWATYWALA EGO WSE BOLX[E I BOLX[E - DOWOLXNO ^ASTO iGORX NESSQ NA RABOTU W SOWER[ENNO DIKOE WREMQ, KOGDA MY WSE RASHODILISX PO DOMAM, POSLE KAKOGO-NIBUDX SBORI]A. oN RADOWALSQ KOGDA RE[AL KAKIE-TO STATISTI^ESKIE ZADA^I PO HODU DELA I SILXNO WESELILSQ, KOGDA, RASSKAZAW dIME KAVDANU ODNU IZ SWOIH ZADA^ POLU^IL WERDIKT, ^TO ZADA^A WO PERWYH NEINTERESNAQ, A WO WTORYH NE RE[AETSQ (NADO BYLO POS^ITATX KAKOE-TO RASPREDELENIE WEROQTNOSTEJ). s aNEJ Q POZNAKOMILASX W mOSKWE, NO REGULQRNO WIDETSQ MY STALI UVE ZDESX, W bOSTONE. pERWYE DNI W bOSTONE Q, sLAWA I aLE[KA VILI U aNI I iGORQ NA Boylston, ONI PRIEHALI NA MESQC RANX[E I MY OSTANOWILISX U NIH. iGORX I aNQ BYLIL TEMI, KTO WSTRETIL MENQ W aMERIKE I IMENNO ONI POKAZYWALI MNE KAK I ^TO. q POMN@ SWOJ PERWYJ POHOD W SUPERMARKET S NIMI, POEZDKU W "hADASKU", MAGAZIN PODERVANNYH WE]EJ. iGORX PRIWOLOK NAM STOL I MATRASY. pOMN@ KAK sLAWA PERWYJ RAZ POEHAL W Ann and Hope S aNEJ I iGOREM I WERNULSQ POTRQSENNYJ - ONI EGO TAM UGOSTILI BULO^KOJ "cinnabon", ON MNE W PODROBNOSTQH OPISYWAL ETU BULO^KU I GOWORIL ^TO KOGDA POLU^IT RABOTU OBQZATELXNO MENQ UGOSTIT TAKOJ BULO^KOJ (PERWYJ RAZ Q-TAKI ELA \TOT "cinnabon" S iGOREM). mOVET BYTX \TI POTRQSENIQ PO POWODU BULO^EK I WAVNOSTX TAKIH SOBYTIJ SEJ^AS UVE NEQSNA, NO TOGDA -- NA[A VIZNX WO MNOGOM SOSTOQLA IZ TAKIH OTKRYTIJ - BULO^EK, TUFELX PO CENE DWE PARY ZA ODNU (\TO, KAVETSQ PORAZILO aNXKU), POMOEK S MEBELX@ I o'gENRI W BEZUMNOM KOLI^ESTWE TOMOW... mY TOGDA HODILI DRUG K DRUGU W GOSTI ^UTX LI NE KAVDYJ DENX, sLAWA DAVE KAK-TO POSLAL EMAIL aNE: "tWOJ MUV PO[EL K MOEJ VENe. dOBROVELATELX." kAK-TO RAZ BYL WE^ER S MOEJ ZNAKOMOJ S FAKULXTETA - iGORX NAPISAL POTOM: mY SIDELI NA POLU s KITAQNKOJ hUAN-lU. rAZGOWOR WESELYJ [EL, tAK KAK RAZNYM BYL NA[ POL. s SAMOGO PRIEZDA W bOSTON iGORX STAL SOBIRATX "itemy" - PROIZNOSILOSX "ITEMY" - ETO BYLI WELOSIPEDNYE SEDLA, "UTERQNNOE UT@VENIE", WSQKIE VELEZQKI, MQTYE BUTYLKI... bUTYLKI BYLI "KAKA-KALA" I "PEPSI-KALA" ( S UDARENIEM NA POSLEDNIH SLOGAH). e]E MY EZDILI SMOTRETX NA ZWEZDOPAD WMESTE SO WSEM bOSTONOM W ODIN IZ WE^EROW W AWGUSTE 93GO, NA OBRATNOM PUTI MY POPALI W PROBKU I NA SLEDU@]IJ DENX MA[INA WOB]E SLOMALASX IZ ^EGO iGORX ZAKL@^IL, ^TO dANI\L OPASEN DLQ EE ZDOROWXQ. oTGOLOSKI \TOJ POEZDKI W NESKOLXKIH iGOREWYH EMAILAH: Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1993 19:15:14 -0400 (EDT) wOT POEDU NA aLQSKU RASTO^ATX L@BOWX I LASKU. nA kLONDAJKE, NA kLONDAJKE pLQ[UT WOLKI, PLQ[UT ZAJKI. uRONIL SWOJ TRUD sIZIF PRQMO W bERINGOW PROLIW s WYSOTY GORY gory MacCinley. oJ-LI, TAK LI, KINX LI, WYNX LI. kSTATI, TY PRIWITA OT \NCEFALITA? oT aLQSKI DO nEBRASKI ZNAJ LETQT MOI SALAZKI! eSLI HO^ETSQ POKUSATX - zAEZVAJTE W mASSA^USETS. tWOI GLAZA POLNY POLQRNOGO SIQNXQ ZELENOJ PELENY. tWOQ POWADKA LANXQ. Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1993 19:50:33 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Podolzhenie ... lan'ja. tWOQ PROHLADNA TENX, NA ^TO Q I NE ZAR@SX, tY - SEWERNYJ OLENX. a Q - pingvin vulgaris. Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1993 19:53:58 -0400 (EDT) Pesni i pljaski Narodov Al'aski. u iGORQ BYLO NESKOLXKO L@BIMYH KNIG - Q POMN@ RAZGOWORY PRO sA[U sOKOLOWA, iSKANDERA, "The art of motorcycle maintenance"... e[E IZ iGOREWA EMAILA Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1993 17:22:27 -0400 (EDT) s GUSQ IMEEM PERO. i PI[EM, I PI[EM, I PI[EM. gLAZ PODMIGNUW[IJ HITRO. wTORJ GOLUBOJ. tY GLQDI[X IM. q NASUPROTIW PO STOLU. mEV NAMI TARELKI I KRO[KI. i SUMERKI VMUTSQ K STEKLU. vELT WE^ER W KWARTIRE U kO[KI. iZ RWANOJ DYRY W ABAVURE SWET B_ET I PRQ^ETSQ W KUHNE. nAPROTIW SMIRENNO SIVU. wOT-WOT PODO MNO@ STUL RUHNET. tY BUDE[X RUGATXSQ, A {AC WOZOPIET K LANDLORDU. kAC, {AC, aLXBAC - WSE LI NAC- IONALXNOSTI OB]EJ? q - MORDA, HULIGANXE, OSTOLOP. hWATIT, PORA ZAKRUGLQTXSQ. tY BY GLQDELA HITRO B! nEWOLXNAQ RIFMA NA kACE. iGORX UMUDRQLSQ WESELITSQ PO L@BOMU POWODU I WSE OBIDNYE WE]I PREWRA]AL W ISTO^NIOK RADOSTI. iZ EGO EMAILA ot Thu, 09 Sep 1993: "nO MOJ DEWIZ -- OBIDX OBID^IWOGO. |TO NE W [UTKU, \TO Q SOWER[ENNO SERXEZNO, MNE S GOD NAZAD PRI[LO ETO W GOLOWU I DO SIH POR NRAWITSQ." q-TAKI ODIN EDINSTWENNYJ RAZ NA NEGO OBIDELASX IZ-ZA KAKOJ-TO ^EPUHI -- ON wYBRAL NE TU DOROGU W bOSTONE, ON RADOWALSQ MOEMU NEGODOWANI@ ^REZWY^AJNO I DODRAZNIL MENQ DO SLEZ, W REZULXTATE MNE TOVE STALO SME[NO. bOVE MOJ, KAK VE MNE VITX S \TIM? wSE ^TO PROISHODIT SEJ^AS OTZYWAETSQ BOLX@: q WSPOMINA@ SWOJ POHOD NA mONBLAN -- I MYSLX - iGORX TAK HOTEL. gOWORQT O SNEGE -- WSPLYWAET FRAZA IZ GAZETY: "kOGDA PROIZO[LO STOLKNOWENIE, [EL SNEG." hORO[IJ KONCERT W Boston Symphony - PERWYJ RAZ Q TAM BYLA S aNEJ. dAVE W MATEMATIKE POSREDI ^XEGO-TO DOKLADA -- Q WSPOMINA@ KAK aNQ RASSKAZYWALA PRO WZAIMOOTNO[ENIQ SOIH KOLLEG S FAKULXTETA S DIF.URAMI. q POMN@ aNXKINY MALENXKIE RUKI, iGOREWY BOLX[IE. q INOGDA BYLA REZKA S aNEJ -- ONA MNE DAVE GOWORILA W KAKOJ-TO MOMENT, ^TO ODNO WREMQ Q BYLA NEWYNOSIMA I ONA, PRO]AQ, TOGDA STARALASX DERVATXSQ OT MENQ PODALX[E. q UDIWLQLASX KAK BYSTRO I LEGKO ONA SHODILASX S L@DXMI, KAK ONA BYLA GOTOWA GOWORITX HORO[O O DRUGIH. q TOLXKO ^TO ^ITALA POSLEDNIJ TOM \SSE bRODSKOGO. mNE TAK NE HWATAET iGORQ OBSUDITX PRO^ITANNOE, PORADOWATSQ KAKOJ-NIBUDX NELEPOSTI, PROEHATX PO NO^NOMU bOSTONU. mNE KAVETSQ, ^TO MY, OSTAW[IESQ PYTAEMSQ ZAPOLNITX \TU PUSTOTU ^A]E WSTRE^AQSX DRUG S DRUGOM I NI^EGO NE WYHODIT: ODINO^ESTWO I TOSKA NE UHODQT SLOVENNYE WMESTE. -nET ARIFMETIKI W L@BWI... a KAK ON OTKLIKALSQ ZWONKIM: "~TO?!" NA OKLIK "iGORX!", KAK POWTORQL: "hORRRRRO[AQ TY TETKA, kO[KA". oN PROSTIL MENQ RAZ I NAWSEGDA ZA WSE NESOWER[ENSTWA KAK BRAT PRINIMAQ MENQ BEZ KRITIKI I SMEQSX NADO WSEM. nEWOZMOVNO PRIWYKNUTX K TOMU ^TO IH NET, A DNI IDUT. u MENQ SOHRANILISX KAKIE-TO EMAILY iGORQ, DLQ NEGO EMAIL BYL SPOSOBOM OB]ENIQ. wOT ^TO-TO IZ EGO PISEM: Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1992 19:50 Great! Beatiful! Perfect! All right! Wonderful! Horosho! Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1992 17:49 EDT Sorry, I forgot all of the german. I never knew french. I don't know a single word in spanish. I don't distinguish any hierogliphics. Cuneiform is a dead form of script. It's against my nature to write from right to left. Sorry for waisting your time. Take it easy. Date: Thu, 14 May 1992 12:59 EDT ETO KPECTUK, ETO HO/\UK. ETO 3AUCb, ETO KPO/\UK. Date: Fri, 29 May 1992 12:15 EDT Subject: rugan' Zmeja siamskaja! Net, ne mogu! Chudische hvostatoe! Da chtob! Razve zh mozhno kak ona? Matematik v zhenskom oblich'e! Tiran domashnego ochaga! %##&*&*(%&*^%$!@%&)* *&%%%) 8o974424&_(%$) +$_^#$^( 765 **& ut7^%8979 (*&%^">:>M ":<>MQ~+{ ]; ?><<<,./.! Bendiks startera i kontaktnaya gruppa zamka zazhiganiya! Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 14:53 EDT My kupalisya u prudu Kolo dvuh chasou kryadu. I, zamerzshi do nosok, Plyuh s volnoyu o pesok. Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 18:07 EDT Nadorvala ya bryushinu vybirayuchi mashinu. Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 17:51 EDT Rady deneg izobil'yu, zaveli avtomobil'yu. Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1992 16:47 EDT Subject: Prud Let's go to the pond tonight. Be prepared by 6.30 - 6.45. ****** ***** * * **** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ***** * * * * * * * ******** * * * * * * :::::::::::::: Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 19:58 EDT V chetverg moya mashina nahoditsya v vashem rasporyazhenii, as well as friday, monday, etc., seven of them. Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 16:18 EDT Deeply repenting. In future promise not to any more. Student Slobodkin. Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 18:10 EDT >From: ISLOBODK@opal.tufts.edu Subject: vicious To: okra@math.mit.edu Ya pogovoril s Petrovym i on opyat' menya pereubedil , chto onn prav. To est' oba pravy. No ty mozhesh' emu napisat', chto on merzavetz, a potom dolgo otstaivat' tu tochku zrenija, chtoesli eto skazano s ulybkoj, to eto prosto laskovoe obraschenie k luchshemu drugu. Naprimer, Max v techenie primerno goda nazyval menya ne inache kak svinjej. I nichego. Date: Fri, 14 May 1993 20:03 EDT Subject: Re: Subj: Subj: Subj: Subj: Subj: Obj: Date: Tue, 18 May 1993 16:50 EDT >From: ISLOBODK@opal.tufts.edu Subject: :jbuS Hi! I am in a slight frustration. It seems that nothing that I thought worked indeed didn't. The good news is I have to do some simple experiments to confirm either this or that, but it's a pain. And these experiments only give results in four days after you do them. It's better than a month, of course, there is nothing to complain about. Still I would prefer to have results tomorrow rather than next week. And to add to that I have something in my throat that feels like a boil, it hurts and it's irksome. Altogether it doesn't turn me up. I called up mr Petroff, he is Ok, he answers the phone, and he is being bugged by people who like to call him to cUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU UUUUUUUUU(sorry, I don't know what it is)... to comfort him, because they call every half hour. Some diligent ones call at nine o'clock in the morning. He says to call at eleven would be an underestimation of him, not even earlier. Date: Sat, 22 May 1993 15:45 EDT Hi! How's life? Mine sucks, but I never actually cared. How were the movies? I know you are not gouing to reply me by e-mail, but still I'd better questions than make statements. Right now I am doing my exam, I am having another take-home one, and I am surrounded by americans and we are talking English. They are doing the exam, and I am being a parasite and practicing my English. Date: Sun, 23 May 1993 15:30 EDT I dislike both male and female idiots. In this sense I can even give up my innate sexism. May this letter support you in your troubles. Iggggggggg Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 15:24 EDT >From: ISLOBODK@opal.tufts.edu Subject: Hi! How is your life? How is math doing? , :" ". , , , . ? ! Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 12:46 EDT Hi! How are you? I am OK. How do you like this way of organizing (what a long word) e-mail messages (a rather long one, too) ? Wie geht's ? Ich bin sehr gut. Hast du diese Weise der Organisierung (Was fur ein langes Wort!) den E-mail Briefe gern ? ? Bye. Boy. Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 18:02 EDT Nu i have svoyu Zhenyu v svoj apppartament, vmecte c VCR and so on. Peredaj ej ot menja serdechny naklon i dushevnoe prisedanie. Kukareku, ya kenguru. Buy. Ciao. Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 13:25 EDT Hi! I just got a letter from Kozhekin, he says he has found "Santa Barbara" on TV in Izrael, (It's a soap opera that's on in Russia now, my mother watches it all the time), Kozhekin has told it to Mashka, Dashka and Myshka and they got excited and ordered him to find out who had married to who. And now I am going to have another 5 second paroxism of work, so I'm off. Good bye! Feel well! Bye. Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1993 16:14 EDT I am getting fat and round, gram by gram and pound by pound. I deeply regret there is no such service as flowers over e-mail. If there were such a thing... If there were mushrooms growing in the mouth... Islobodk-aga. Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1993 11:17 EDT It was cool yesterday! Today we (I+A) are tking my aunt out for dinner. Isn't it astonishing? And I am losing characters from words all the time today. !!!!!!!!!!!! Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1993 19:18 EDT It's good that we are not going anywhere today, because I like it here in the lab, first time in my life I have an experiment running. It's an experiment in a classical sense - I mix together things of some dubious relevancy and observe results. Results are coming with time. Every hour of incubation gives me more confidence to run an upscaled version of this experiment overnight, which still might be a pretty bad idea, despite all confidence. Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1993 21:14:45 -0400 (EDT) >From: ISLOBODK@opal.tufts.edu HI! How's math doing? It's 9 o'clock in the evening I wanted to run, and it looks like I am not. It's too late. You will get this message tomorrow, anyway. So, I am in yesterday now. yesterday (really) we got some pictures from developing, the ones I had shot in San Francisco. There are some pretty ones there. What came was a minor portion of what had been sent. I am expecting more good ones. In our apartment there are pictures all over the place, I just don't know what to do with them. What do you do with people who send you messages asking to call Physics department in your UNIVERSITY (th e key got stuck) and to inquire there about some details of graduate study or how to apply, or stuff? This guy from California, who I have never seen, thinks I have plenty of time. I just answered, that the phone number of information in Boston is 5551212, as well as anywhere else, and the know all othe r phone numbetrs, includinf SORRY< my fingers are just dizzy, including the one he needs. Privet! SL. Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1993 13:28:58 -0400 (EDT) I am starting my Qualifier. We have to pretend we are writing a grant on an irrelevant topic. Cool. Igor. Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1993 17:45:54 -0400 (EDT) >From: ISLOBODK@opal.tufts.edu I suggest going for some running today or tomorrow. I feel like my exam thing is on it's track, and leading healthy life is what I need for successful completion of the former, as well as of the latter. This morning I happened to be a spectator of a wonderful performance called "fixing valves". The plumber was trying to convince my landlord that our shower was not supposed to give any cold water, and he succeeded. Our landlady though is not so easy. They were arguing about it in our shower, and they totally crapped up the floor I had washed, thanks god, by the bathroom only, but it was so funny, that I forgave them. By the end of the scene, our landlord was absolutely confused, so he wouldn't get out of our apartment, and she had to tell him to leave. If she didn't, he would have probably stayed there by the door for another hour or whatever time he might need to figure the situation. He was perplexed like a kid. A cute creature. bye. Ig. Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1993 17:22:27 -0400 (EDT) Privet! Dobryj vecher! V odin iz sleduyuschih vyhodnyh my s Anej edem v eto, na svad'bu etoj, podrugi. Kejp Kod, eto samoe. Gde-to. Zachem-to. A to by ya opyat' kuda-nibud' lomanulsya. V Belye Gory, ili tam esche kuda-nibud'. Peshkom, pozhaluj, luchshee budet. Vidy tam, tuda-syuda. Pejzazhi. I pochemu by mne v budnij den' tuda ne rvanut'? Rabota u menya po skol'zyaschemu, ne bej lezhachego. Chto Sandi, chto Mandi -odna pechal'. I chego ya grusten, kak pastushonok Petya? Mne po rabote nado izlozhit' na pyati stranizah obzor literatury po teme, koyu ya znayu ponaslyshke. A izlozhit' nado pravil'no, i s pravil'nymi ssylkami, i, chto vazhno, organizovanno i logichno. A kak logichno, esli ono vse iz nesvyazannyh kusochkov? Tak i hochetsya pisat' - kusochek number one, kusochek number two, prinimaya vo vnimanie kusochek number six i kusochek number eight, imeem vyvod chto to-to, chto i nazovem vyvod number four. Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1993 17:48:23 -0400 (EDT) >From: ISLOBODK@opal.tufts.edu Subject: hudshee v mire Slo. Eto ya. Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1993 13:55:27 -0400 Privet! Horosho rabotaet moj velosiped. Teper' hot' ubej, a ne smazhu. Luchshe drugoj kuplyu. Kstati, moya Anna hochit tozhi takoj velosiped now. A ran'she bojalas'. I kino "delikatessen" - vovse ne legkaya komedija, kak ya prosil Petrova, a chert-te cho i sboku bantik. Tam bol'shoj dom, gde vse lyudoedy, i kloun, kotorogo hotyat sjest', a on ih vseh topit. I esche tam kakie-to troglodity - vegetaryanzy. I subtitry zheltogo zveta, tak chto v polovine sluchaev oni slivayutsya s fonom, i dazhe esli by ne slivalis', vse ravno ih tak bystro stirayut, chto ponyat' nichego nel'zya. Chtoby ponyat' eto kino, chto-to nado znat'. Togda ono, mozhet byt', budet smeshnoe. A ya nichego ne ponyal. Eto kak vo vremena Pifagora smejat'sya nad teoriej Meklera o strukturah belkov. Ty, kstati, chto-nibud' o nej znaesh'? Esli nichego, to samoe ono posmejat'sya - budet tochnoe predstavlenie o kino. Ya rabotayu na computere isklyuchitel'no v temnyh ochkah. Narod uzhe figet' perestal. Kak eto po-anglijski? Kto-to razbil moyu lyubimuyu kruzhku. Urody neuklyuzhie. Oni u menya, kstati, vse lyubimye. Iz-za etogo kino Ane v etu noch prisnilsya ne odin koshmar, a dva. I v sem' utra zarabotali nashi buldozery. Boy Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1993 15:00:19 -0400 (EDT) >From: ISLOBODK@opal.tufts.edu Subject: Bike Tonight I am going to Kazhdans - they have two birthdays. Brings about the problem of gifts. The present problem is eternal. The eternal problem is present. This is what's usually abbreviated to b.s. Bye-bye! S l o b oops! wrong key! o d k i n. >From: ISLOBODK@opal.tufts.edu vchera posle kino my s Anej poehali v Videosmith sdavat' kassetu, a ty zabyla o svoem obeschanii. Po doroge tvoj velosiped razboltalsya sovsem, ehat' stalo nevozmozhno, tak chto ya snyal zadnie tormoza (u tebya skoro nichego ne ostanetsya) i togda hot' kak-to stal peredvigat'sya. Doskripeli my do etogo videosmita, a on zakrylsya v 11, za polchasa do nashego priezda. Ya spat' hotel, kak medved'-shatun. Priehali domoj, ya stal kapriznichat', vse izrugal, sjel chetvert' baklazhana syrym, i usnul. A nynche utrom priehal k zubnomu - ona ne prishla, zabolela. Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1993 16:27:31 -0400 (EDT) >From: ISLOBODK@opal.tufts.edu Morozilo - izvestnaya rifma k slovu ozero. Samoe trudnoe - eto vovse ne ozero, a Ershler. K nemu rifm ya znayu dve, odnu papochka moj izobrel : ...mily Ershler, kak by nemnozhechko umershij,... druguyu ya - "vniz i vverh shli", no s moej nikakih stihov net. A k ozeru est' rifma Ozerov, ochen', mezhdu prochim izyskannaya. Iz slozhnyh: "chto zevat'?", s udareniem na "chto". I voobsche, eto ozero Max propagandiruet let vosem', on eto gde-to prochel. A vot u nego gde-to imeetsya izysk- bi-akrostih na: ME AR KSh SL IE MR No ya ego ne znayu. Ya vam tam prines pishushuyu mashinku i postavil u dveri ofisa. Potomu chto Anna skazala, chto esli cherez pyat' minut mashinka ne ischeznet, ona ne znaet, chto sdelaet, tak chto sel ya na velik i poehal kuda glaza glyadyat s etoj mashinkoj. Postavil ee tam u vas, esli soprut, to tuda ej i doroga. Ona vse ravno ne super. A potom poehal ottuda, kuda glaza glyadyat. Privet! Hochesh', stihov kakih napishu? Boy >From: ISLOBODK@opal.tufts.edu Ne plach', devchoonka! Prajdut dazhdi! Iz chih-to glaz, iz chjih-to glaz Techet nepit'evoj zapas. >From someones eyes, from someones eyes There's leaking of non-drink supplies. Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1993 12:03:11 -0400 (EDT) S dobrym utrom! Kstati, esli salatik ostalsya, mozhno ya zajdu dokushayu? TY tol'ko ego v holodil'nik postavit' ne zabud', a to stuhnet. Kak vse pod lunoj. Pod lunoj vse tuhnet, esli v holodil'nik ne postavit' na noch'. Zahodil soldatik - narubil salatik. Vchera vecherom An'ka govorit - nado Koshke pozvonit' i sprosit' - nu kak? A ya govoryu - ya uzhe did. Ona govorit - nu i kak? A ya govoryu - a fig ego znaet kak, mne ne skazali. S dobrym utrom! Kak rabotayut udarniki? Udarniki rabotayut s utra do nochi. Udarniki vkalyvayut, kak proklyatye. Udarniki uhajdakivayutsya i uhodyat na zasluzhennyj otdyh. A tuneyadzy i lentyai otdyhayut nezasluzhenno, ne uhajdakamshis'. Tuneyadzy i lentyai materyatsya v transporte v rabochee vremya. A po okonchanii trudovogo dnya na ih mesto zastupayut udarniki. I materyatsya do odinnadzati. Nochnuyu zhe vahtu nesut chasovye lyubvi, in other words, molodezh'. Ona materitsya v teh zhe trollejbusah s odinnadzati do dvuh. Potom glubokoj nochyu otvodyat dushu voditeli trollejbusov. V to vremya kak udarniki, potnye, kryahtya i skrepya pruzhinami, vorochayutsya pod odeyalami, prichmokivaya vo sne. Krugovorot lyubvi v prirode. S dobrym utrom. Udarniki - po-anglijski percussion. Vernee, udarnye. Litavry tam, barabany tam, tam-tamy tam. Polden'. Pora idti rabotat'. Moi telefony -956-0404, 956-6725. Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1993 19:29:08 -0400 (EDT) L'amour! It's glamour Has caused my tremor So many times - I can't help rhymes. As I hav promise, this was run on a native speaker and has an "OTK" on it. Bye now. Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1993 15:04:05 -0400 (EDT) I esli ya tebya obidel, to uzh ty prosti, pozhalujsta, so vremenem. Privet! Slobodkin. Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 17:33:01 -0400 (EDT) Subject: okra-shmokra 3dpaBcTByuTe, MadaM! xu-xu-xu! Kak de/\a? Kak no>IFrom: ISLOBODK@opal.tufts.edu Privet! Kak shisn'? Ne prishlesh' li ty mene Askin e-mail adrisok, a to u mene on propamshi. Daviche, dumaju, daj chirknu paru strok devochke, an hvat' - die Adresse nafig verloren ist, zum Teufel. A nukelear root. (Yadren koren') I ain't gonna tell nobody whatever you are sort of up to. Zvuchit, kak stihi pryamo, i nastol'ko zhe ne po delu. Slobodkin Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1993 10:40:42 -0400 (EDT) >From: ISLOBODK@opal.tufts.edu Subject: Casablanca Casablanca Casablanca Casablanca Casablanca Horosho ya pishu horeem? Dobroe utro? Kak ty sebya chuvstvuesh'! A u menya putaniza so znakami prepinaniya" Nikak ne vspomnyu' zapyataya stavitsya posle tire,- ili do -, i vopros kotoryj kryuchkom ili pryamoj: A ya nikakih pisem ne poluchal ot Maksov i Asek, u menya pusto i grusto. Ya tak i nesdelal vche rachtoso biralsy a. Svin. Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 14:57:24 -0400 (EDT) >From: ISLOBODK@opal.tufts.edu Guten Morgen Sovsem zaraportovalsya. Wie geht's, to est, ca vas, toest' t'fu, quel pasa, odnim slovom, salam alejkum. Last night we saw a good movie. "Women on the verge of nervous breakdown". It's really good. Es ist sehr gut, Ich moechtete es sehr. I am getting crazy, it is in English where you have to spell yourself with a capital letter "I", not in Deutsch. SLOB(as in "boy")ODKIN Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 19:53:39 -0400 (EDT) Hi! Your father is definitely a victim of parent abuse. How are things? Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1993 19:03:44 -0400 (EDT) Hi! I am working so hard, you can't imagine! I am busting my rump. purum-purum-purum. Bye-bye. One-two-three - get one free. Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1993 14:02:57 -0400 (EDT) hi! I think Petrov's gone nuts all the way. He is e-mailing in Russian now. Sl. Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1993 20:37:20 -0400 (EDT) Pardon, segodnya dnem ya ochen' vezde toropilsya, a Krot ne mozhet dvigat'sya bystree cherepahi, sovershenno. I ya podumal esche, edinstvenny kto znaet kakie-to simptomy appendizita - Borya Buhgalter, no eto tot esche gus'. U nego kak raz chto-to takoe bylo, i dohtur emu skazal, chto eto - hronicheskij appendizit, i vse rassosetsya. Rassosalos' kak-to. Ne znayu, ne znayu. Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 01:47:44 -0400 (EDT) Privet! Ochen' bylo fkusno i zamichatel'no! Spasibo! Eh, davnenko ya tebya ne videl. A tvoj etot odin raz obojdetsya bez grush. Est' takaya priskazka - muzh-objelsya-grush. Vot takaya kocheryzhka! Vino bylo horoshee, i hlep k nemu prilagalsya klassny. Ya, kak govoritsya, had a time of my life. Mal'chiku kushat' - chto? - Nado. Boy Date: Wed, 02 Mar 1994 16:42:07 -0400 (EDT) Bros' ogorchat'sya, hotya ya i ne znayu, chem podkrepit' sie zayavlenie. A mne segodnya s utra dejstvitel'no zvonili vse, kto mozhno, prichem tol'ko zhenschiny, i ty byla ne poslednej. Ya ne rugalsya, a prosto ochen' udivilsya. Mashina segodnya opyat' vstaet na prikol, po sluchayu nerabotayuschego sosoyaniya i plohoj pogody. Uzh potepleet, ya ee razberu! Vot pokataemsya! Esche den'ka dva. Ya tak dumayu, chto togda ona budet uzhe Daniel-proof. Date: Fri, 01 Apr 1994 12:59:02 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: My videli slona Glupaja, eto byl ya. Date: Mon, 09 May 1994 13:28:20 -0400 (EDT) >From: IGOR SLOBODKIN Subject: Re: Prigov - today eh, ne uspevayu, pohozhe. A zhal'. Dushoyu tam. Kilogramm salata rybnogo... Date: Mon, 09 May 1994 14:22:12 -0400 (EDT) Subject: May 9 Ya tak ponyal, chto k Danielu mama priehala na Den' Pobedy, i ya emu na etot sluchaj ssudil svoj bronevik. Ili dazhe tak - chto k tebe na Den' Pobedy priehala svekrov'. Oh, uzh etot ya. Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 11:13:11 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: kakoj email u Maksa? Ne znayu, skryvaet. My ne berem mashinu naprokat, i ne edem za gribami. S ogneupornym privetom. Est' takaya ptiza - qqshka. Qq! Date: Sun, 12 Jun 1994 21:35:09 -0400 (EDT) >From: "IGOR V. SLOBODKIN" A ay vypil pivka i myslyu vo vse storony. Igorechek. Date: Mon, 25 Jul 1994 16:50:01 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: privetik Privet! Mne chego-to ot tebya nado bylo, no ya zabyl chego. Kuda i kak, fig ego znaet, i kakaya tut Moskva. Vash ventilyator ispravno rabotal for a week, a potom zasoh. Ne zabud' skazat' hi to As'ka. Ou est tu maintenant(t, s, fig ego znaet, kakaya tam glasnaya, ya vse oubliee, mein Herz.) As'ka, naverno, otvetit "hi-hi-hi" Boy Date: Wed, 07 Dec 1994 16:58:02 -0500 (EST) This morning I had a very exhausting dream how I was washing dishes. I had a sink full of dishes and I kept washing them, and new dishes were coming, and I woke up tired and bored. Some say it means I'll be a dishwasher in my next life. I wonder, whose. Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 16:34:01 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: MMooooviiiiiie Dak ya zh ih videl po dva raza! A chto? Tigra Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 13:23:57 -0500 (EST) A menya pojmali na Western avenue. Vot ved' nespravedlivost'! S drugoj storony, eto dolzhno bylo kogda-nibud' sluchit'sya. Zvonil ya tebe na dnyah prosto tak potrpat'sya, a tebya-to i ne bylo. ZHAL'. S Date: Mon, 06 Feb 1995 23:57:08 -0500 (EST) >From: IGOR SLOBODKIN Subject: nu i kak? A chto kak, sobstvenno? Nam zdes` ne zhizn`, a krapiva. Krasna yagoda krapiva, v nej butylka iz-pod piva, proshlogodnyaya gazeta i polrybjego skeleta. Ryadom derevo ryabina, i tak dalee, v rifmu. Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 12:55:57 -0500 (EST) I voobsche ya ne v duhe. Vse ploho, kuvyrkom i ne tak. I Anna opyat' ne sdala na prava, po-moemu, nespravedlivo. A sleduyuschij raz tol'ko v konze iyunya. Tak i permit konchitsya. Bred kakoj-to. I, glavnoe, ved' dorogo vyhodit. Dozhdik-to idet, ili eto prosto nastroenie takoe? Mozhet, ya tozhe zabolel. Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 11:09:22 -0500 (EST) A teper' ya speshu na stanziyu, chtoby ehat' ottuda vo Franziyu. Nam prishli normal'nye pasporta. Ostalos' vyyasnit', normal'nye oni, ili net. Priedesh', kstati, pokazhu kino pro nash pohodez. Pravda, ya ego sam esche ne videl. S Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 14:44:58 -0500 (EST) Privet! Obyazatel'no zalez' na Mont-Blanc. Pravda, mozhet ne poluchit'sya, on, vrode, vysokij, tipa 5500 ili okolo togo. Na kakoj vysote vasha derevnya? Ochen' mnogoe zavisit ot akklimatizatsii. Bez trenirovochnogo pohoda tochno fig zalezesh'. Ya tol'ko chto zabralsya na 4400, posle horoshej trenirovki, da i to vysota nemnozhko chuvstvovalas'. U An'ki s rukami saditsya golos, Len'ku i Yul'u ya esche ne videl, kazhetsya, oni ischut kvartiru. Mashinu Tani Hovanovoj ya ne videl voobsche nikogda. Privetik.S Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 21:16:54 -0500 (EST) Ni puha ni pera, esli polezesh' na goru. Tam mozhet okazat'sya slishkom vysoko, i bez akklimatizatsii mozhno prosto ne dojti. Vazhno idti medlenno i razmerenno, esli pobezhish', to vydohnesh'sya, i na etom vse zakonchitsya. Gora-to vysokaya, naskol'ko ya znayu. Na Elbruse u menya byli problemy dazhe s akklimatizatsiej, golova bolela diko, i shel ya v rezhime shag-vdoh-vydoh. Ya by rekomendoval vzyat' Excedrin - eto gde nameshany aspirin, tylenol i caffeine. A kak tam matematika? I dyshitsya privol'no? Tsvety tsvetut? U nas tsveli. Krasnye, sinie i romashki. Privetik! S Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 00:44:41 -0500 (EST) Privet! A my tut otlichno pozasedali s Danielom, a potom ya na avtootvetchike poluchil message ot Slavy. On govorit, chto nado vse delat' bystro, srazu poslat' kak mozhno bol'she bumazhek, i chto tuda voobsche mozhno pozvonit'. Ya slushal nevnimatel'no, tak chto mog chto-nibud' i propustit'. Ya esche raz poslushayu, i esche napishu. Kak tam, vo Franzii? S Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 13:56:08 -0500 (EST) Subject: Klyuchi i mashiny Privet! Okazyvaetsya, Anna zabyla doma svoi klyuchi nakonez-to. Esli ty esche obladaesh' klyuchom ot mashiny, ne mogla by ty kak-nibud' s nej prokontachit' na etu temu? A to nam na konzert ehat' ne na chem. Prichina, konechno, vazhnaya, nichego ne skazhesh'. Ty s utra kakaya-to grustnaya byla... S