Tag: Set

When A Monk Set Himself On Fire — Burned To Ashes

On 11 June, 1963, a Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức came out of a car with 2 other monks and sat on a busy Saigon street intersection. One of the 2 monks set a cushion for Thích Quảng Đức and the other poured a 5 liter gasoline over him. Inspectators, passersby, and a few me...

What Makes a Set of Words a Work of Art?

We all read books and enjoy reading, but not all of us wonder how it happens that a set of words becomes a literary work. Why «Eugene Onegin» is a work of art while a message in Facebook is not? This issue is actually the main question of poetics, science which studies structure of li...