Contents

Crisis 22 is a literary look at the Ukraine War. Many of the pages are in progress, yet so far it’s divided into six sections: 1. A Literary Premise, 2. Waking Up, 3. Cunning Plans, 4. Puppet Masters, 5. Fearless Leaders, and 6. Coda.

🍏 Preface ~ Aim & Method - Nine Novels - Six Sections - Literature & Politics - Apples of Discord - Coffee in St. Pete’s

  1. A LITERARY PREMISE

~ Approaches & arguments ~

🌗 With Open Eyes ~ Overview - A Literary Premise - Waking Up

🌘 Gogol & Co. ~ Cunning Plans & Puppet Masters - Cunning Plans

🌒 Down South ~ Puppet Masters - Rushdie - Fearless Leaders - Coda

🗝 The Time is Out of Joint ~ In the Drawing Room - The Play’s the Thing

📺 Vicarious Experience ~ In a Dream of Passion - Pianoman - Cameraman

🪞 Mirrors ~ Poetry - Tragedy & Comedy - Achilles & Arjuna

📚 4 Types of Narrative ~ Nine Novels - Four Types

💥 Exceptional Violence ~ Chiaroscuro - Chiaro - Scuro - The Present Score

🟢 Fog & Shadow

🌏 The Global South

2. WAKING UP

~ The shock of war ~

The Ghost of Crises Past ~ Two Sonnets - The 1980s - Lines - Chaos

✈️ Dream Vacation 2005 ~ St. Petersburg, Moscow, Vladímir, & Suzdal

Rip Van Winkle ~ Mojitos & a Cigar - El Profesor - Blissful Ignorance - Reveille

🌉 Jovanka on the Bridge ~ Jovanka (July 22, 2023) - Q & A (October 8, 2023)

☯️ Both In and Out of the Game ~ Options - Ostrichism - Ukraine 101 - Realism - Whitman

❄️ Political Modes of Being ~ Connections - Keats - Eliot - Aurelius - Pseudaurelius - Eyes - Religion - Violence

3. CUNNING PLANS

~ Gogol, Dostoevsky, & Bulgakov ~

🧥 Two Novels and an Overcoat ~ Dead Souls & Year - Gogol’s Overcoat

😵‍💫 Russian Souls ~ A Cunning Plan - The Russian Soul - Belinsky

✒️ Literature & Subversion ~ The Integrated Threat - Exceptionalism - Gogol & Bulgakov

💰 Selling the Scheme — not yet online

🧛🏻‍♂️ The Immoralities of Marmeladov and Raskolnikov

🚓 Crimes and Punishments

4. PUPPET MASTERS

~ Postcolonialism: a multipolarity that already was ~

🎭 Behind the Scenes ~ Five Points - The Wayang Kulit

☯️ Unified Sensibilities ~ The Political Uses of Literature - The Fractured Mirror - T.S. Eliot - Koch’s Year

⚔️ The Dangerous Years ~ Years - Puppetry - James Bond - Daughter of Darkness - Spoiler Alert

🌪 The Eye of the Storm ~ The State of Things - What Then Must We Do?

The Dark Which Has No End ~ Strata Casting: Akasha & Accumulation - From Lamp to Lamp

🎙️ Words of Folly and Wisdom — not yet online

⚔️ Battle of the Puppets

🇮🇳 India & the Many-Headed Monsters

🇵🇰 Pakistan & the Fall of the Poet

5. FEARLESS LEADERS

~ War & rhetoric ~

Fearless Leader of the Global South ~ Overview - The New Bung Karno - Les Humiliés - Global Sing-Along

🇺🇦 Golden Bridges (July, 2022) ~ Past & Present - Blame - The Past - Solution - Sanctions - Action - Coda - Anthem

🇺🇸 / 🇷🇺 Exceptionalism (Dec. 2, 2022) ~ The Mad Cartographer (Aug. 2024) - Dec. 2022

🗽 Our Lady of the Harbour ~ Arms Race to the Grave (2023) - Questions - Setting Sail - Our Boys (2003)

☮︎ War: A Brief Playlist of Songs & Poems

6. CODA

~ This is the end, / beautiful friend ~

🦋 The Tao of Putin (April, 2022)

🍒 Macaron, Not Macron

AD / BC (July, 2022)

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