Anton Cebalo

Daniil Kharms was a strange man. Born in 1905 in St. Petersburg, he was the son of Ivan Yuvachev, who was persecuted for his involvement with the revolutionary group People's Will (Наро́дная во́ля).

In the past few months, I have been reading about the personalities present in Young Bosnia for a forthcoming essay. The group was not formalized by any means, made up of decentralized cells of 3-5 people, and a scattered array of political influences. But in Gavrilo Princip-its most famous member and who would ultimately kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand-you see a distillation of the temperament that made them.

In the first century AD, a passionate didactic poem was written in Latin and later bundled with Virgil's work. However, the style is so drastically different from his that the author's real name is likely permanently lost. is a poem that revolves around explaining how Mount Etna ("Aetna" in Latin) on the island of Sicily erupts. Whoever wrote it must have made an altar in his mind devoted this volcano which was the most active in the region then.