We live in interesting time. Pushkin had a talent, a feather, creative subjects and "the village on Parnassus". But now - "digitalization". Everyone can type the text and post online this text.
"Simply" to place? - It's not of a value. You need to name it. For example - "knigomania". Or - to give an any similar name. Bullshit is one thing. And "PROJECT" is something else.
Not everyone has anything to write about. So and it is annoying that there is no "village on Parnassus".
Conclusion is clear: it is necessary to write about Pushkin. But such subjects as Pushkin's participation in formation of the legislation on copyright, Pushkin's relationship with publishers, - they, first, are intelligently difficult, secondly, they, such themes, are in the thin system of "links of times". You will begin to write about Pushkin and about the 19th century, and it will turn out that you touched a problem of modern destruction of the national book market and questions of a gap of a century civilization (economic, financial) links between writers and readers.
So, about what to write?
"Illegitimate children of Pushkin ...". Why not.
"For a long time I am tormented by a question why we plainly know nothing about it?."
"At us ... classics of literature cannot scatter the genes commercially. It is not necessary! Even to Nicholas II forbade to love Kseshinskaya. Our "moralists" can to discipline any one ..."
"Zemfira. Gipsy. Remember Zemfira and Alecko from "Gypsies". Here history a dark, as they say, with a candle in the Gipsy tent nobody stood ... If researchers could inquire about other children, then here "all unknown" - say, the little girl was born".
Weakly... Weakly...
There is a wish to be with Pushkin "on a friendly leg" ... But - weakly ...
Besides, is not accessible, as for Pushkin, "the village on Parnassus". And there is a wish to eat.
Digital managers thought up indicators everyones. For example:
Number of viewings.
Quantity of a readings.
Average number of unique visitors of the page.
Percent of the users who read up up to the end.
Average time of a reading of a publication.
And so on.
You - in a "system". It is necessary to become a little bit similar to the storyteller Amadeus Hoffmann.
"Who was killed because of Pushkin, or "the most difficult question in the world"".
"... Genes of the great poet made really abrupt bend: his lineal descendant is Lev Trotsky".
It is good still that not Karl Marx. Or not any east theorist and practician of class fight ... In the east the population - numerous. Why among east inhabitants not to be a some Pushkin's descendants. ... With a candle in the Gipsy tent nobody stood ... And Gipsy (were prone) to travel ...
Clever people make and publish collections about great people: "100 great ...". But ... There is a problem. "He, however, also did not conceal it, openly recognizing in the letter to V. Vyazemskaya that "Natali - my 113th love"".
Unpleasantly, but it is necessary to recognize that there are a digital restrictions ...
At some point willy-nilly will have to switch to Gogol. Gogol wrote "Scraps from the madman's notes".
Somewhere he, this crazy, hid. - In the Internet ... And probably pounding hooves on the keyboard or the touchscreen - scribbling anonymous "Scraps"... It seems, about this crazy, who hid in the Internet, wrote Amadeus Hoffmann.
December 9, 2018 19:29
Translation from Russian into English: December 11, 2018 07:58.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский "Скетч об интернет-сумасшедшем".