Digging into nostalgia
Great piece, and what a surreal feel with the amusement park!
Dig it, Oleg! Just became a subscriber.
I'm a product of the USSR and totally relate; although, when someone asks me where I live, I say USA, where I have lived for almost 45 years. :)
this piece is poetic
I love the joke about people starting to refer to the meeting point as Zara only after the Zara store closes. That feels like something from Calvino's Invisible Cities, a city where everything only becomes known posthumously.
Thanks for reminding me about that book. I have recently bought it but haven't yet read it. Will bump it in my reading list.
Great piece, and what a surreal feel with the amusement park!
Dig it, Oleg! Just became a subscriber.
I'm a product of the USSR and totally relate; although, when someone asks me where I live, I say USA, where I have lived for almost 45 years. :)
this piece is poetic
I love the joke about people starting to refer to the meeting point as Zara only after the Zara store closes. That feels like something from Calvino's Invisible Cities, a city where everything only becomes known posthumously.
Thanks for reminding me about that book. I have recently bought it but haven't yet read it. Will bump it in my reading list.