TMoP, some misc. annotation

[Michael Bailey]

when I was researching for the Vienna section of AtD,
I think I learned that some of the market districts there dated back
to, like, 1080 or something...

it's just weird to me, or maybe, i dunno, striking or something,
that people actually drove wagons in from the countryside and sold hay...
just kind of a vivid image - like another one which D&G mention passim in
_Thousand Plateaux_, that of the horse getting whipped to death - "apparently
a fairly common sight in those times, mentioned by Dostoevsky and Nietzsche and
(mumble mumble somebody else)" sez D&G...


apologies for my ignorance, maybe some others on list also didn't connect the
Haymarket reference immediately:
http://goeasteurope.about.com/od/russia/a/dostoevskypete.htm

"Sennaya Ploshchad, or Hay Square (the Haymarket), was featured
heavily in Crime and Punishment. It's no wonder – Dostoevsky lived
here for several years. On Kaznacheyskaya Street, he lived in flats
no. 1, 7, and 9. It was in no. 7 that he met his stenographer and
future wife Anna. Dostoevsky's brother also lived on this street.

Raskolnikov, the fictional anti-hero of Crime and Punishment may have
lived on nearby Stolyarny Lane. Scholars have identified other
architectural landmarks on which Crime and Punishment might have been
based. While Raskolnikov never existed, except in the cultural
consciousness of his readers, one can find graffiti and other markers
that signify how very real he might have been."



On 9/26/08, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Chap 1: Haymarket: At the winding Griboyedov Canal, which snakes south through the heart of the old Haymarket District made famous by Dostoyevsky,
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>  Haymarket, starting with London mid-1600s, is the name for a market place where food was sold, where farmers brought foodstufs and workers worked........in London, Russia, later Chicago, Boston, Licoln, NE.
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>  Became forever associated with "anarchistic'--bomb-throwing---radicals after the Chicago Haymarket Affair. See wikipedia.
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