Аннотация: The sounds of Mu-oo-oo, or the replacing of the intellectual payment with ideas for discussion. (Sounds of Mu continues). A diary note.
The sounds of Mu-oo-oo, or the replacing of the intellectual payment with ideas for discussion. (Sounds of Mu continues). A diary note.
[today at 15:37]
"Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich,
thank you for the polite response in SI [Самиздат - https://proza.ru/go/zhurnal.lib.ru/editors/z/zalesskij_w_w/] and by the e-mail !!
Probably paid publishers pressed you.
Why near-state [sources]?
"To try find out how much "financial support" the magazine receives from state and from the near-state sources? What will the sending of my work into this magazine give me apart from the additional costs [expenses]?"
The publishing house is purely private. Personal. We like it and it give us a little money. By the way, back in 2002, when we started and wanted not to continue, the authors themselves asked us to continue working. And now we are working - now quite professionally. In terms of publishing technique. For us, the issue with sales is much more complicated. Financial support is provided by fellow literature enthusiasts. I will not list all of them, suddenly I will forget one of them. There are subscribers. From the state to our children's literary circle ... a deputy helped .... Taking this opportunity, I would like to thank him for his help in the development of contemporary Russial literature. He is the only one who has helped from the side of state during all this time. Somebody can professionally deal with milking the state, but we do not have a special department for this, there are two of us. We carry out literary orders of seperate persons.
What will it give? A beautiful book that you can read, give to friends and discuss materials.
For 7 years we have been running a science fiction competition (for a fee) and a post literary seminar (free of charge). I invite you to participate in the literary seminar. There are interesting discussions. Technically, this will not be burdensome for you.
We cannot publish [authors] for free - this is a literary society with a members' payments. The fee for participation in a competition or for publication is a membership fee. We publish regular authors without payments if there are 1-3 spare pages. We also publish the winners of literary contests as a prize for free.
Yours faithfully
A ... (organizer of the literary community and publishing house, curator of the science fiction competition and literary seminar)
D ... (curator of children's competitions and editor of the magazine ...) "
[today at 18:14]
"Dear A ... [I did not find your last name in the letter] (organizer of the literary society and publishing house, curator of the science fiction competition and literary seminar)
and
D ... [... - there is no last name in the letter, but I am guided by the previous letter] (curator of children's contests and editor of the magazine ...)
I will not remind to you of Alexander Pushkin, who had, figuratively speaking, a village on Parnassus (in the sense that it gave him quite a tangible income - you can read about this, if you wish, my miniatures). (I am hinting at the fact that authors - under the normal state of affairs - receive income from their work, not losses).
I will not remind you of Mikhail Lermontov, who at the time of writing his poem in memory of Pushkin was a little-known author. His poem was not published, but was copied en masse (by hand). ("What will it give? A beautiful book that you can read, give to friends and discuss materials.")
It seems that he did not discuss his poem with anyone other than those who persecuted Mikhail Lermontov for this poem (in an official order) and forced him to name (give out, divulge the name) the comrade (who circulated the poem). (A hint that the main thing is not a beautiful book and not a discussion. A - the content. The main thing - is a literary work by itself).
I will not remind you about Arzamas and Green Lamp. As far as I know, these literary societies did not conduct any monetary payments between their members.
You suggest to me: 'I invite you to participate in the literary seminar. There are interesting discussions. Technically it will not be burdensome for you. "
With whom I will to "discuss" with? and what themes to discuss?
Who and what among the members of your organization or among you personally wrote (1) about the deliberate destruction of creative markets, the national book market, (2) about the destruction of the technical (or other) intelligentsia, (3) about the orientation of Karamzin's "History" on the interests of the dynasty Romanovs and, in general, on the interests of all those who are trying to separate or to remove [to move away from] Russia from Europe, (4) about the development of a criminal sub-culture?
I suppose that for you and your participants, cultural authorities are official figures such as the famous historian, the leader of the historical-military society, and his entourage, the entire horde that makes up the editorial boards of thick magazines. (This magazines are chewing on the same topics for decades, and their management is trembling at the slightest hint of the deprivation of their funding). In ranks of mentioned horde are commissions for awarding official literary prizes and the laureates of these prizes ...
On the contrary, for me these people are not cultural authorities (cultural figures), but accomplices in the process of the criminalization of the cultural process and of destruction of Russian culture .
What could be the character of the discussion?One side will defend (1) the transfer of holidays from November 7 to November 4, (2) the legality of rewriting a third of the dissertation on history from another source (with the subsequent appointment of a plagiarist to high positions, his exaltation and praisation), (3) the idea of organizing the filming of a film in space for huge money through the participation of a morally dubious figure in the lead role, (4) an approving statements about the film 'Dear thimbleriggers', - and the other side will put forward counter-arguments? ...
From your letter I understood that you did not accept my offer to publish in your magazine one of my miniatures without payment of fee. Accordingly, this proposal is withdrawn by me, and this proposal is no longer valid.
However, to support your creative process, I suggest that you discuss (may be - after the reading my works): (1) the topic of digital censorship, (2) the reasons why I was not allowed to post my patriotic work 'Бурейский Дневник. Bureya Journal' on a separate page (if you wish, you can discuss this work itself), (3) The original historical concept by Vladimir Zalessky "East-Republican Space Project and the Russial (Soviet) intelligentsia". I am trying to direct these modest proposals into your intellectual process as some kind of contribution (as a kind of the assistance).
To put it briefly and bluntly, I have not the slightest reason to consider you any significant figures. Your two letters do not contain any substantial arguments in your favor. I agree to treat you with the same civilized level of respect as is customary among people, who by the will of the circumstances, are communicating with each other on the Internet.
Sincerely yours, Vladimir Zalessky. "
[MMСCLXVIII. To squeeze out the sounds "Mo". A note on a contemporary Russial culture. - July 18, 2021.].
July 19, 2021 18:18
Translation from Russian into English: July 20, 2021 14:23.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Звуки Му-у-у или замена интеллектуальной оплаты выдвижением идей для обсуждения. (Му продолжается). Дневниковая заметка'.