Долли Олдертон — королева не только романтической комедии, но и второстепенных персонажей! Они ей удаются чуть ли не лучше основных. В этом романе моим любимцем стал престарелый анархист Моррис, одинокий глуховатый старик, который коллекционирует супы в консервных банках и каждую неделю пишет письма в тюрьму Джулиану Ассанжу. Мой любимый момент романа — это когда он описывает свои рождественские традиции:
'So what do you do on Christmas Day?' I ask suddenly.
He looks up at me with his frightened ferret eyes. He slides back on his elbows with visible struggle then turns on to his side. He slowly heaves himself up, refusing the offer of my hand for help. He stands upright and dusts the pine needles from his jumper.
'I wash all the curtains,' he says. 'It's a job that only needs to be done once a year, and I always remember to do it on the 25th of December.'
'Anything else?' I ask pleadingly.
'I eat a fish pie,' he says. 'And watch Creature from the Black Lagoon.'
Долли Олдертон — королева не только романтической комедии, но и второстепенных персонажей! Они ей удаются чуть ли не лучше основных. В этом романе моим любимцем стал престарелый анархист Моррис, одинокий глуховатый старик, который коллекционирует супы в консервных банках и каждую неделю пишет письма в тюрьму Джулиану Ассанжу. Мой любимый момент романа — это когда он описывает свои рождественские традиции:
'So what do you do on Christmas Day?' I ask suddenly.
He looks up at me with his frightened ferret eyes. He slides back on his elbows with visible struggle then turns on to his side. He slowly heaves himself up, refusing the offer of my hand for help. He stands upright and dusts the pine needles from his jumper.
'I wash all the curtains,' he says. 'It's a job that only needs to be done once a year, and I always remember to do it on the 25th of December.'
'Anything else?' I ask pleadingly.
'I eat a fish pie,' he says. 'And watch Creature from the Black Lagoon.'
Telegram was founded in 2013 by two Russian brothers, Nikolai and Pavel Durov. Since its launch in 2013, Telegram has grown from a simple messaging app to a broadcast network. Its user base isn’t as vast as WhatsApp’s, and its broadcast platform is a fraction the size of Twitter, but it’s nonetheless showing its use. While Telegram has been embroiled in controversy for much of its life, it has become a vital source of communication during the invasion of Ukraine. But, if all of this is new to you, let us explain, dear friends, what on Earth a Telegram is meant to be, and why you should, or should not, need to care. Either way, Durov says that he withdrew his resignation but that he was ousted from his company anyway. Subsequently, control of the company was reportedly handed to oligarchs Alisher Usmanov and Igor Sechin, both allegedly close associates of Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Emerson Brooking, a disinformation expert at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, said: "Back in the Wild West period of content moderation, like 2014 or 2015, maybe they could have gotten away with it, but it stands in marked contrast with how other companies run themselves today." The Security Service of Ukraine said in a tweet that it was able to effectively target Russian convoys near Kyiv because of messages sent to an official Telegram bot account called "STOP Russian War."
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