The Notebook Socks
Description: Mikhail Bulgakov was a recognized writer and playwright of the USSR, but he was labeled as counter-revolutionary. That usually meant exile, labor camps, and death. Bulgakov lived, but his best work remained unpublished for many years. Novel The Master and Margarita combines narratives from the New Testament with the contemporary Soviet Union, the Devil himself walks the streets of Moscow. The book was finally published in 1966, twenty-six years after the writer's death. It is one of the masterpieces of the twentieth century.
Description: Smack the cover of Ulrike Meinhof’s Urban Guerilla Concept on a book you fill with obscenely detailed depictions of young Andreas Baader taking young Stalin's hand, drawing him closer, the world around them fading as their bodies run together losing track of where one ends and the other begins except to know they are not alone, there is some other, and this other is responsible for this ecstasy which is pumping through their veins, pumping, pumping, pumping... and communicate to whoever you’re near that yeah, you’re considering becoming an urban guerilla, no big deal. In a developed country like yours the protracted people’s war can totally take place in the city, whatevs. A book said so. It’ll be fine. You’re not even worried.
