Comments on: End of the water http://eagleandthebear.wordpress.com/2008/12/19/end-of-the-water/ In St. Petersburg, Russia: "There, by the billows desolate, He stood, with mighty thoughts elate ... " -- A. S. Pushkin Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:58:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Sarah http://eagleandthebear.wordpress.com/2008/12/19/end-of-the-water/#comment-232 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 06:05:03 +0000 http://eagleandthebear.wordpress.com/?p=594#comment-232 This piece had some great images (pipes like “overridden nags”) which made the situation pop off the page. I could just feel the cold damp waiting outside the sauna. How sad that the country of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky–sleighs hurtling down snowy roads–is so different today with roads and pipes literally falling apart. Were things different then? Were the lives of peasants “nasty, brutish and short” back then and it’s just that everyone’s pretty much at the peasant level today? Or were things different back then and with the current political system and corruption, things are falling apart today?

]]> By: Steve S http://eagleandthebear.wordpress.com/2008/12/19/end-of-the-water/#comment-222 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 07:21:06 +0000 http://eagleandthebear.wordpress.com/?p=594#comment-222 Generally, a bucket of water poured into the toilet bowl will flush it — I’m guessing that’s what that’s for.

Also, bucket baths work pretty well, if you have something you can heat said bucket of water with. And don’t worry too much about lacking water ’till you’ve gone a month and a half with frozen pipes, Azerbaijan-style. Good times!

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