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That is what the name is about: in Greek, splagkhna means the part of the intestines used in divination.
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What It’s Like Living Here — From Patrick Findler in Goris, Armenia: an exploration of place, recounting my time in Goris at Numero Cinq. In Old Goris there are wild-growing herbs such as a local minty- or marjoram-flavored thyme and nettles, which are gathered up at the base of the hills in spring, summer, and …
The Giant Garbage Pit, or The Largest Diamond Mine in the World – Then, a Robbery and a House on Fire: My Travels in North Siberia: It’s what it sounds like. Writing for Catapult At the airport, he said, they understood foreigners. They would know what to do. But he wouldn’t stay there and see, …
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Patrick Findler, 1001 Interviews No. 10: Jessica Yen interviewed me for 1001 journal. I was thinking about nostalgia today. Went to get a sausage at the Polish sausage cart and the woman was wearing a perfume that was very popular on the busses in Moscow in 2001. And I bent my head in to get …
