Tuesday, July 10, 2007

News at Eleven: "The poet Vladimir Mayakovsky appeared

with his head high in the sky and asked them to mend his soul," wrote one of the newspapers. "The audience that completely filled the theater burst into loud laughter."

Mayakovsky was described as completely lacking in talent, and writing "empty words of a malaria sufferer"; some people recommended that he be hospitalized immediately.

from Haaretz: The 'raging bull' of Russian poetry

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