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Me: 11.07.2021      Meine liebliche sexy süße kleine Muse!   In my last message, I talked about “Oblomov (1859)” by Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov and the Russian hatred towards people of German descent. Where did this hatred come from? Germanic tribes inhabited the region around the Baltic sea nearly to the Ural mountains to the east already from the 8th century B.C. and to the Alps in the south after they had defeated the Celts. For a long time, nearly a thousand years, the Germanic tribes dominated these regions. In the 5th century A.D., the great migration pushed these tribes around. Sometimes they fought on the side of the Huns and sometimes on the side of the Romans. With the death of Attila, the Huns disappeared and the West-Roman empire collapsed. Now, the Germanic tribes where the only masters of nearly whole Europe. In the 6th and 7th century the Slavs, the last Indo-European group coming to Europe, conquered Eastern Europe. The Germanic mythology reflects this as a kind of apocalyptic events. Giant wolfs, eagles, snakes and so on kill many Germanic gods but some survive and that is the foundation of a new mythology. However, the Germanic tribes could never again reconquer these regions and the Slavs stayed from the Baltic to the Balkans and from Czech territory to the Ural mountains. The “Lebensraum im Osten” (habitat in the east) was lost for ever and a constant conflict of 1300 years began between these ethnic groups. When the German knights came back from Palestine, the holy land, they had no land and work and began to pillage German territory. Therefore, the German Caesar ordered them to install themselves in the region of Eastland, Lithuania and Latvia. There they established the German order of knights. There were many battles, fights and wars until Ivan the great of Russia defeated them. However, Ivan was clever enough to observe that these knights had a very well organized administration system and invited them to stay. He even integrated them into the Russian army and administration. As a minority, they usually had high and powerful positions within the Russian state, all to the dislike of Russian people.   Meine liebliche sexy süße kleine Muse! You inspire me! I love you!

Krystina: 11.07.2021 Thank you so much for your stories and warm feeling. I am happy that you are with me 😘

Me: 13.07.2021      Meine liebliche sexy süße kleine Muse!   “Annie's Coming” written by Rosemary Crossley was published in 1982. The book tells the story of a girl’s early life in a government institution for people with severe disabilities (she was not only unable to move but could not even speak) and her subsequent release from the institution, as well as a therapist's attempts to communicate with her through the pseudoscientific method of facilitated communication (the disabled person has always to touch a field on an alphabetical table and that way, let’s say, spells the words she / he wants to say). The story is not written in a special style but it somehow reflects the opinions of society about disabled people at that time. Sometimes, I tell those stupid people around me about what I read when they ask me to. I must say they behave like Neanderthals. One of them, for example, put the question: But where should these cripples go once they leave such an institution? First, everything went black around me because I was told the same when I left Germany at the age of 18. People just couldn’t imagine that there was life outside the institution, outside of society. Then, I took a deep breath and as they saw that my explanation was going to be longer, they sat down and listened because again they were sure to hear something what they had never heard before. You must imagine that I can’t talk to them like I talk to you. I talk to them just if they were mentally disabled or just like if they were 4-year-olds. “I think the question should be asked differently. I can’t repair my computer, she can’t build a house, he can’t repair his car. We all need help and these people need a bit more help. However, the state spends so much money on bullshit. Why shouldn’t it be permitted to these people to lead a dignified (I wonder whether they could understand the term “dignified”) life? Just think about Stephen Hawking (I looked around and I saw that they had never heard about one of the most famous theoretical physicists, cosmologists, and authors of so many books.)! So, I told them about his condition in a wheel chair and communicating via a special computer. I didn’t tell them that their lives were worth less than Steven Hawkins.   Meine liebliche sexy süße kleine Muse! Talking to you is like walking in a flower garden!

Krystina: 13.07.2021 Reading your messages passing me through to the sky 😘🙂😘

Me: 15.07.2021      Meine liebliche sexy süße kleine Muse!   I thought about why we study history and the way we do it. At the beginning, the first homo sapiens just wanted to remember where they had seen food (fruit or animals) and where these animals could be wandering the next day. Then, they wanted to learn from the faults of others, so they had to remember. When they were able to write and read, they recorded the lives of more remarkable members of their group or society (Upanishads, Talmud, Bible, Koran). Public issues needed information about ruling or earlier forms of states and societies (the Roman “anales” (yearbooks) or Titus Livius). In the 18th century during the “Enlightenment”, the term history was defined concretely for the first time. (It’s connected to the  Encyclopaedists, 34 men but only one woman, Diderot, Voltaire, Rousseau, only to name the most famous. This kind of view of history still prevails in our schools in western European countries, with kings, empires, wars, battles, periods of art creation and so on / plants and animals got their Latin or ancient Greek appellation at that time) In the 1860s, Friedrich Engels tried to observe history from an economical point of view (historical materialism: Primitive communism (society without classes), Ancient mode of production (the first possession of means of production), Feudal mode of production, Capitalist mode of production, Communist mode of production, Higher-stage of communism (community without classes)). Probably, there were many others who thought that there was not much sense in knowing only what the life of kings was because most normal people wouldn’t be born or live like a king anyway and they were much more interested in how average people lived and had lived. The last big change came in the 1960s, women’s liberation movements, and lead to “Women’s history”. However, this again deals only with more famous women. It would be very interesting to know for example how average people coped with contraception, menstrual cycle or things like that in ancient or previous periods of history.   Meine liebliche sexy süße kleine Muse! Every word is a flower and a kiss I send you!

Krystina: 15.07.2021 Thank you for thousands flowers and kisses 🙂😘

Me: 09.07.2021      Meine liebliche sexy süße kleine Muse!   Today, I’m going to tell you about a book, which contains the descriptions of a Turkish traveller at the time of the Osman empire. Derviş Mehmed Zillî (25 March 1611 – 1682), known as Evliya Çelebi, travelled through the territory of the Ottoman Empire and neighbouring lands over a period of forty years. He was born in a wealthy family attached to the Ottoman court. Although employed as clergy and entertainer in the Imperial Court of Sultan Murad IV, Evliya refused employment that would keep him from travelling, so he was sent around as a kind of diplomat. In that position, he was well received by every commander of the Turkish army. Everybody fell down to the ground in front of him and kissed his feet. He called the people not believing in Allah the infidels and, of course, thought that he and his companions had the right to pillage, steal, rob and murder. On the other hand, when he travelled to Vienna in 1665–66, Çelebi noted some similarities between words in German and Persian what would later be known as two Indo-European languages, he even wrote about music. Places and countries he visited: Croatia, Mostar, Kosovo, Albania, Azerbaijan, Crimean Khanate, Parthenon in Athens, Syria and Palestine, Circassia. He was part of the system and described everything from that point of view. I wonder what a normal citizen or a poor farmer of that time would have commented.   Meine liebliche sexy süße kleine Muse! It’s raining because our garden of flowers needs water so that I can send you even more beautiful flowers and kisses.

Krystina: 18.07.2021 In Poland storm every Day, and hot a lot. I send you very hot kisses 🙂

Me: 19.07.2021      Meine liebliche sexy süße kleine Muse!   Do you know John Milton? I had heard about him but never read anything written by him. Therefore, I thought, first, I would rather try to get some information about him and his time to catch the spirit of that time in order to understand why and how he wrote for example about freedom of speech. He was born in 1608 and died in 1674, wanted to be a clergyman and had therefore read the old Testament in ancient Hebrew, the new Testament in ancient Greek, referred in his writings a lot to Greek and Roman writers and knew Latin very well. A well-educated and informed scholar. First, I will collect the names of some famous people, who lived at that time to see what the world around him looked like! Christopher Marlowe: 1564 – 1593, poet and playwright. Pietro Aretino:1492 – 1556, I read his book about a prostitute, who explained her daughter how to get the most money out of elderly men some 15 years ago. Edmund Spenser: 1552 – 1599, wrote The Faerie Queene. I read this work some ten years ago; it’s a kind of medieval epic story with knights, magic and so on. William Shakespeare. 1564 – 1616 John Locke: 1632 – 1704, he once wrote: it’s not right that a teacher hits a pupil, however understandable because even a teacher is just a human. Nevertheless, beating as a means of education is not the right method. David Hume: 1711 – 1776, was not even born Sir Isaac Newton: 1643 – 1727, was younger than Milton. Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni: 1475 – 1564 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: 1646 – 1716, was younger than Milton Immanuel Kant: 1724 – 1804, and Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu: 1689 – 1755, were not even born Leonardo da Vinci: 1452 – 1519 Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei: 1564 – 1642 Giordano Bruno: 1548 – 1600 Johannes Kepler: 1571 – 1630 Baruch Spinoza: 1632 – 1677, was younger than Milton Michel Eyquem de Montaigne: 1533 – 1592 Blaise Pascal: 1623 – 1662 I think that now I have a kind of a picture of what John Milton could have known or what the background of his knowledge and thinking could have been.                                Meine liebliche sexy süße kleine Muse! The storms and heat in Poland are the hot feelings moving all the flowers, trees and leaves in our garden!

Me: 21.07.2021      Meine liebliche sexy süße kleine Muse!   Areopagitica; A speech by Mr. John Milton I had to look it up in an encyclopaedia. Ares was an ancient Greek god of bravery and war. Areopagus is a hill near Athens named after this god. The ancient Greeks held a kind of council or tribunal there and Isocrates was an orator, who held an important speech there 400 BC. Now, John Milton used this term Areopagitica to name his essay for freedom of speech and press, against censorship. First, to sustain his reasoning, he used a religious point of view saying that god had given even Adam the choice between paradise and the tree or fruit of wisdom. Second, he stated that no censor was infallible. Third, it belongs to the dignity of a free person to choose himself. Fourth, he declared it impossible to make something unthought, unwritten or unhappend what had already seen the light of the sun. Fifth, to understand the difference between good and bad, one must experience / read bad as well. Sixth, Milton thought it rather pretentious to claim that someone alone had the truth. Seventh, he expressed the strong believe that the truth will prevail anyway. And eighth, he took an example out of history stating that even Christian believe was once censored.   In my next message, I will write a bit about the history of England at that time because, to be honest to myself, there are some black holes of knowledge to fill.   Meine liebliche sexy süße kleine Muse! Expressing my thoughts to you is like cultivating our flower garden!

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