![]() ![]() He concludes that it was only Raskolnikov who was ever tormented by murder, and only because his spiteful creator insisted on sticking Christ into all his trashy novels (“по воле своего злобного автора, совавшего Христа во все свои бульварные романы”). He goes on to mention the famous (in his day) French executioner Louis Deibler (who chopped off “exactly five hundred heads”), the violence in popular literature (including James Fenimore Cooper and the Bible), and the horrors of World War I (Bunin was writing two years into the war): the mass murder of Armenians by the Turks, the poisoning of wells by the Germans, and the bombing of Nazareth (I can find no reference to this - maybe a war rumor in 1916?). In truth, are they tormented, are they horrified, those who accept ancestral revenge, duels, war, revolution, and executions? The outlook of the criminal depends on his view of the murder - whether he can expect from his crime the gallows, reward, or praise. Enough of writing novels about crimes with their punishments it is time to write about crimes without any punishments at all. People have lied enough as it is - as if they shudder from the sight of blood. It is time to abandon the fairy tale concerning pangs of conscience, those moments which supposedly haunt the murderer. At the start of the story we see him in such a dive, in the down-at-heels neighborhood near Five Corners ( Пять углов, associated with Dostoevsky), haranguing a couple of sailors about the depravity of mankind (I quote the translation in Thomas Gaiton Marullo, “Crime without Punishment: Ivan Bunin’s ‘Loopy Ears’,” Slavic Review 40.4 : 614-624 ): Bunin was polemicizing with his least favorite writer, Dostoevsky (one of the things he and Nabokov had in common), replacing the loquacious and tormented Raskolnikov with the sullen Adam Sokolovich, a former sailor who spends his time wandering around Petrograd, looking into shop windows, and hanging out in dives. Yes, in the last sentence we learn that a prostitute has been murdered, but that’s just the donnée on which the story is based (apparently it was sparked by Bunin’s having read a newspaper account of such a killing). Who has eradicate? The game keeps going until the card with “Finish” written on it, is placed in the middle.Another break from Sokolov, another great Bunin story (see this post): his 1916 “ Петлистые уши” (published in 1917, in Slovo 7) is far more interesting than it is made to sound in the usual summary (“man murders prostitute”). ![]() I have a species that is at risk of dying out. They then read aloud the first section on their card. The person who has the Loopy card that has the matching definition calls out “loopy” and then reads aloud the matching definition on their card and places it in the middle on top of the start card. Who has endangered? They then place the card in the middle. The person who has the “Start” loopy card begins by reading the vocabulary word on that card aloud e.g. Also mark the finish card, the vocabulary word on the finish card will match the definition written on the starting card.ĭeal out the cards between the players. (Every vocabulary word used in the game needs a matching definition written on one of the other paying cards.) One of the cards created should be marked as the starting card. ![]() (Insert the chosen vocabulary word)?” In the second section write a definition for one of the other vocabulary words that you are using in the game. In the first section the teacher should write “ Who has …. The teacher prepares a set of loopy game cards, enough for everyone in each group to receive one card each. Usually the vocabulary selected is related to the current unit of work being studied. Loopy allows multiple opportunities for students to reuse vocabulary and to understand the difference in meaning between words that may be quite similar. Loopy is a vocabulary game which is good for helping students to learn the meaning of key academic vocabulary words. ![]()
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