Kherson
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Kherson is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between March 01, 2022 and June 10, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “The six cities are Kyiv, Odesa, Lviv, Mariupol, Kharkiv, and Kherson”; “The six cities are Kyiv, Odesa, Lviv, Mariupol, Kharkiv, and Kherson”; “He visited Lviv, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Irpin, Kherson”. It most often appears alongside Kyiv, Lviv, Russia.
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- Category: Places
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: March 01, 2022
- Last seen: June 10, 2023
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- Kyiv (2 shared issues)
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- Lviv (2 shared issues)
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- Russia (2 shared issues)
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- Ukraine (2 shared issues)
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- US (2 shared issues)
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- A Poet in Paradise (1 shared issues)
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- ACX (1 shared issues)
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- Afghan government (1 shared issues)
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- Aleppo (1 shared issues)
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- Alfred Adler (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
The six cities are Kyiv, Odesa, Lviv, Mariupol, Kharkiv, and Kherson. This question gives the Russians two more months than the last one, so it’s surprising that they’re at about the same probability. Maybe everyone expects Russia to go for Kyiv first and take longer for anything else? Or maybe they’re assuming everything stands or falls together.
This winter a friend of mine, an American living in Europe, went to Ukraine with a humanitarian mission. (Here’s a twist for you, dear reader.) He visited Lviv, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Irpin, Kherson. He was shelled a few times; he now can recommend a hotel in Kyiv with “the best bomb shelter in town”. His reasons for going there in the first place were dark. The results, however, were miraculous and heart-warming, and align very well with everything said above. His story could have been a nice coda to this review. However, his story is also much bigger than this review, and it is also his, so I will not elaborate more than I already have. He will tell it in his own time and in his own way. And for now, if there are any darling buds of trust sprouting between us, dear reader, you’ll just have to trust me on this. Because for an actual coda I chose something much more grim.