Daily Archive: February 26, 2005

slight peccadillo

More chinar concepts: “Druskin invented the chinar term a certain equilibrium with a slight peccadillo in 1933. Its meaning is deliberately vague, but the peccadillo is, as it were, departure from dead symmetry by...

chinari

A discovery, courtesy of jubilat volume nine: “The philosopher Yakov Semenovich Druskin (1902-1980) belonged to an underground philosophical and literary circle that was active in Leningrad in the 1920s and ’30s. Its members, who...