$ 0 0 10 Fascinating People With Savant Syndrome Awaiting the Enemy That Never Came: the Bunkers of Albania Daniel Kalder: “While Geert Wilders and assorted online provocateurs may like to talk about banning the Qur’an as an extremist text, few take the idea seriously. Except in Russia, perhaps, where on 20 September, a court in the Russian city of Novorossiysk banned a translation of the holy book of the world’s 1.2 billion Muslims.” More Kalder: “Marcel Proust…he really did have a radical routine. Upon rising from bed at 3pm he would immediately hit the opium pipe: It helped with his asthma (or so he claimed). Alas, I suspect that if I were to adopt this habit I’d get very little written indeed, and certainly not a multi-volume epic on memory and time.“ Richey Piiparinen: The Unrise of the Creative Working Class The late Roger Ebert on The Shining: “The movie is not about ghosts but about madness and the energies it sets loose in an isolated situation primed to magnify them.“ Related articles Kuzya the Russian Library Cat The Portland Police Are a Bunch of Nazi Fucking Pig Assholes!!! Russia Hints at Drug Charges Against Greenpeace Activists Gay Boxer Orlando Cruz To Don Rainbow Trunks For World Championship Bout Russia reports near-doubling of doping cases