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Оглавление - Refusing to Love
The Paths of Russian Love from Pushkin to AI. Part II — The Silver Age
- Preface
- I
- Excitement time. New energies. A secluded place of passion. Fantastic attitude. common sickness. Passion in the language of music. Information flows of feelings. Storm in «The Tempest». Yet what kind of love? Love in words and music
- II
- Light shadows of love. The incarnation of a Beautiful Lady. The disappointment of non-platonic love. By the moonlit walls. Tall woman in black. The path of masculinity. The fruits of internal chaos. The echo of a forgotten hymn. Traces of human hooves. Never to give account to anyone
- III
- Rendezvous in a remote restaurant. Damn confused. The attraction of the amethyst ring. Deadly compromises of high love. A tribute to sensuality. Self-poisoning with love. Guardian of the threshold to the supersensual world. Work on the temples of the body. Temptations of bright chivalry. Victory over mania. Berlin’s pubs madness
- IV
- The drama of becoming a self-aware soul. Destroyers of the germs of desires. Face in a handkerchief. Sex as the center of the soul. Mysteries of human nature. Moral torment of the individual. The spirituality of sexual intercourse. Give me a loving family! Internal writings. The true way of clinging. Costs of an ideational marriage. Friendship and nobility turn into love. Philosophy of understanding and philosophy of life
- V
- An alluring light of soul and body. Secrets of a young woman. About the sexual issue. Women’s mind. Cheating on romantic vibes. But that’s not all. semi-accidental love. Against myself. Three years of valentine. Soul separation experiments. Search for divine sparks. Arithmetic of love. Triple bond. The ideal wife of a genius. Pure nudity. Two extreme routes
- VI
- Karma of Eros. Victim of the treasures of love. A terrible hour at the crossroads. A new lot for the demon of love. Reluctance to trust heaven. Extreme poles of love. Distributed love. A sad experience of unnecessary passions. Confession about a quiet haven. The stingy knight of love
- VII
- Overcoming Nietzsche. Dionysian thunderstorm. Ways of deification of man. Fundamentals of psychic life. Golden mask of love. Natasha Rostova at a debate about Eros. The power of the inevitable smile. The riddle of the lion’s heart. Community of mystical election. The kingdom of shadows. Transferring passion to the other world. Cancan of Moscow taverns. Completing the circle of symbolism
- VIII
- Conspirators against the void. Worshiper of honor. The poison of unrequited love. The haughty grin of romanticism. A wet slap. And I was his wife. Double challenge. Patterned belts. Don Juan in St. Petersburg. Stubborn architect. Myriad charges of love
- Afterword
- BIBLIOGRAPHY