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Current Reading List
For those who are interested in this sort of thing, here’s what is currently on my reading list (we just got Barnes & Noble gift cards for birthday presents, and I couldn’t resist running out and purchasing new things)… Perfume … Continue reading
A Literary Question
Well, perhaps it’s a trick question, but I don’t think so…has anyone actually read (all the way through) Gurdjieff’s Beezelbub’s Tales to His Grandson? I have to admit it – I am a voracious reader that has plowed through a … Continue reading
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Tagged Beezlebub's Tales to His Grandson, books, GI Gurdijieff, philosophy
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A Modern Erasmus
When I have a little money, I do not buy food or other such trivialities. I buy books. – Erasmus Ah, as Lawrence Olivier might say in one of his Nazi- or vampire-hunting roles … “I haf enlarged ze library … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Erasmus, Henry Miller, Johann von Goethe, Knut Hamsun, Laurence Olivier, Rainer Maria Rilke, Seamus Heaney
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Untranslatable Word of the Day
A few years ago, I bought a wonderful book by Howard Rheingold called They Have a Word For It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words and Phrases. This book examines foreign words that describe a concept rather than a single … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Howard Rheingold, reviews, They Have a Word For It, words
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The Wizard of Oz
Ah, the Sunday evening movie hour approaches, and for probably the 57th time in my life, I will sit down and watch the Wizard of Oz. This time, however, I will not be tripping my ass off, nor will I … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Elphaba, Gregory MacGuire, movies, television, Wicked, Wizard of Oz
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On Perception and Plausibility …
I’ve been thinking about the differences between my friends who are optically-oriented versus those who are aurally-inclined, and the variations in perception (a visual word) that result from that dichotomy. As a Musician, I have found that more often than … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Joachim-Ernst Berendt, perceptions, polls, The Third Ear
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Miscellaneous
So ends another weekend. We (stardances and I) were hoping to have a quiet weekend to ourselves, just cleaning and organizing and having a very quiet, uneventful time of it. But the lives of teenagers are SO uncertain – it … Continue reading
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Tagged books, computers, Edward Gibbon, ee cummings, Henry Miller, Lady Charlotte Guest, Lewis Turco, Ralph Waldo Emerson, reading
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