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der.hans @[email protected] · 2026-08-17 · 06:17 UTC

Listened to Geddy Lee's autobiagraphy, "My Effin' Life" this weekend

It was great to hear it in his ( and sometime Alex' ) voice

Everybody should listen to Chapter 3 about what the Nazis did to his family and the families of many others

As Geddy's mom used to always say, "It could happen again"

Both of Ged's parents were holocaust survivors

https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9780063159433-my-effin-life

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Sim Barr @[email protected] · 2025-09-21 · 12:11 UTC

Marlene Dietrich & Konstantin Paustovsky

Just finished 'The Story of a Life' by Konstantin Paustovsky (1892-1968), Russian writer nominated 4 times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was of Zaporozhian, Turkish + Polish descent + raised mostly in Ukraine

In her autobiography, Marlene Dietrich devoted an entire chapter to the author inspired by his novel 'Telegram' :
"This novel made so great an impression on me that I could no more forget it than I could the name of the author, of whom I had never heard before"
In 1964, Dietrich arrived in the Soviet Union on a concert tour. As soon as she got off the plane she asked about Paustovsky. Despite being ill, Paustovsky attended the performance + afterwards went up on the stage. “I was so shocked by his presence that, being unable to utter a word in Russian, I did not find any other way to express my admiration for him, except to kneel in front of him"

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