(UPDATED BELOW) Today’s guest blogger is our old friend Boris Pasternak, he who once caught the “echoes from the future,” and is today writing from the past — September 20, 1924, in fact — with insights about the present. “There are times when you begin to feel you are breathing lies, universal and all-pervading, soaking through absolutely everything around you, beginning with the bricks and ending with people’s conversations … Here, the voices of the marketplace, ignorance, narrow-mindedness, racial hatred and the like, are freely and dazzlingly blended with their opposites. This is what allows these dark undertones to acquire