The Wolves of Stanislav: An Improbably True Parable for the Pandemic Age
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#2Author seems to doubt the poet's story but I'd heard about things like this myself and found this, from the same time period and part of the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirov_wolf_attacks
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#3Best part of the whole story was Piotr Grabowski's comment at the bottom. Seems the most illuminating aspect of this story is how disconnected American's are from European history. I don't mean this in a dismissive way. I mysefl, being American, am hoplessly unaware of large parts of European history. But the origin of the author's last name along is actually really easy to understand if one is actually familiar with the culture of the region (if Piotr is to be believed).
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#4Author seems to doubt the poet's story but I'd heard about things like this myself and found this, from the same time period and part of the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirov_wolf_attacks
just a decade ago there was a story about a family of bobcats taking residence in a foreclosure stricken neighborhood near Los Angeles - https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-bobcats5-2008sep05-story... . When humans are gone, the Nature doesn't seem to cry a river.
Re: The Wolves of Stanislav: An Improbably True Parable for the Pandemic Age
#5Author seems to doubt the poet's story but I'd heard about things like this myself and found this, from the same time period and part of the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirov_wolf_attacks
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#6For goodness sake, get to the point. You lost me on the road where the driver was a lunatic but the traffic was sparse. For f sake.
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#7Best part of the whole story was Piotr Grabowski's comment at the bottom. Seems the most illuminating aspect of this story is how disconnected American's are from European history. I don't mean this in a dismissive way. I mysefl, being American, am hoplessly unaware of large parts of European history. But the origin of the author's last name along is actually really easy to understand if one is actually familiar with…
Still kind of biased and he says that everything beyond Stanislaw was a "wasteland" and Far-East presumably because it didn't have Baroque and later Habsburg architecture. I live in a country bordering Ukraine to the South, in a part of if where we didn't have Baroque nor Habsburg architecture (we were under Ottoman influence, even though not under direct control), and I have to say that reading about this territory's history it didn't seem like we were in the Far-East. In other words there's a distinct orientalism in some learned people the closer you get to the "have Baroque buildings" / "does not have Baroque buildings" border.
He seems to be correct though about what happened to the Poles living there during WW2, but those very, very complicated times for all those involved.
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#8For goodness sake, get to the point. You lost me on the road where the driver was a lunatic but the traffic was sparse. For f sake.
Maybe lithub isn't for you.
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#9For goodness sake, get to the point. You lost me on the road where the driver was a lunatic but the traffic was sparse. For f sake.
It's way over-written. Compare John McPhee's articles on bears in New Jersey.[1] New Jersey has about 2500 wild bears, and they're not rare. Neither are wolves in Germany and Eastern Europe. In Russia large wolf packs remain a problem today. Empty out a town and some wolves will move in.
[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/05/in-search-of-n...
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#10Why would this be so surprising though, or need corroboration? I would just assume the presence of wild animals in any place where humans aren't.
Also y'know wolves aren't really some dark harbingers of doom, heavy with portent; they're just a kind of dog, doing their dog thing, looking for food and whatnot. Yeah they're ferocious... so is a panda when it's pissed off. But the panda gets to be the beloved symbol of cute cuddliness while the wolf is reviled as the symbol of all that is evil. Grow up, Red Riding Hood!