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Why Does AI Love "Not X, But Y" So Much?

"...we went to see Akhmatova’s dacha. It was a small hut, I am not even sure, it had a sewerage or water system. Maybe it was the reason why Robert Frost, who went to Leningrad to see her, was not allowed it under pretext that she was sick. She even didn’t know about his wish to see her or that she was sick. Anyway, Frost was persistent for Kennedy’s brother was a prominent Slavist and wanted Frost to see 'the great poet Anna Akhmatova.' Authority decided to invite Akhmatova and Frost to the more fashionable summer house of some unknown to Akhmatova academic. Akhmatova told about this meeting to her friend, Galina Kozlovskaya:

We are sitting in the wicker armchairs on the terrace and two poets talk. I ask him, —Do you publish Pushkin in your country?

The great American poet made a round eyes and said,

— Who? Never heard.

Then poet asked her,

— Tell me what do you sell?

Anna Andreevna was taken aback,

— Nothing…

—I sell the pine woods, they are good for making the pencils.

And Anna Andreevna tells us,

— Two poets were sitting: one—got all the fame, all the recognition, all the, so called adoration of the country. And I sit next to him, and fate is so different…"

—Larisa Rimerman via

One year ago.

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