compared to the actual history of Central Europe, the darkness is not all that excessive.

three women in eight books? that is not too many even by the most conservative account.

is there any news about the TV series based on the Nightwatch? the one Pratchett’s daughter was supposed to write?

Ukraine. no the. there are more than enough materials in English. but you can start from here:

I realize that for you English speakers all Slavic languages are all Greek pretty much the same but bear with me. have a look at this printscreen:

so, Ukrainian terrorists. hijacking a Russian plane. as a Ukrainian tired of Ukrainians being presented as terrorists, gangsters, and whores, I send a ray of hatred and prolonged diarrhea to the writers of this episode. yeah, and drowsiness, so that they fall asleep in their shit.

yeah, sure. Russia doesn’t have the money or the scientists.

planTs the flower?

thank you very much for adding ‘Ukrainian’ to the band’s description, but they are NOT RUSSIAN. they may sing in Russian, they may tour in Russia (stupid, if you ask me — the Russian FSB keeps snatching Ukrainian citizens in the streets to have somebody for exchange for their militants captured in the East of Ukraine…

and you write in English. should I assume you are British?

and?

everybody loves Canadians.

smart move.

who?

It is not Russian, it is Ukrainian. it is based in Kharkiv.

yep, that was the one I have a wish for :)

well, for its time and budget, the TV series was kinda ok — watched it in Ukrainian translation. I just wish they adapt it now for TV with a budget befitting its scope.

for me, it’s weird how the first guy remembers reading that issue of Fantastyka under candlelight. I read the Ukrainian translation of that story maybe a year or two later in the Vsesvit magazine, a highbrow literary thick magazine specializing on translated texts from all over the world, at my grandparents’ apartment…

the most consistent explanation of popularity of clowns in the horror genre that I read links them to the Italian comedia dell’ arte: the Devil (in red) and the Martyr (in white) whom the Devil beats and tortures — developed with time into the traditional circus roles of the red and white clowns — the red clown…

he was Polish.