Quote of the day
What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?
Valentin Voloshinov

Born: June 30, 1895
Died: June 13, 1936 (aged 40)
Bio: Valentin Nikolaevich Voloshinov was a Soviet/Russian linguist, whose work has been influential in the field of literary theory and Marxist theory of ideology.