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Caspar Friedrich — i like the gloomy drama of the clouds, but balanced uncannily with a sense of (easy to slip into pretension but i... -
It's not music. Doesn't resemble music. Has nothing in common with music. Very distressing. @sufi pls delete thread.
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some years ago while looking for an image for the back cover of a pamphlet, ignore reality, i learned of an overlooked Egyptian god also...
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jenks replied to the thread what are you reading now?.Like a pound shop Curtis
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jenks replied to the thread what are you reading now?.If you’re interested this discussion on FMF and The Good Soldier is worth a listen - I was in the audience for the recording...
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jenks replied to the thread Good (and bad) Biographies of Writers.I read a lot of them - the very best ones are either the totally exhaustive doorstops like Ellman on Joyce or the Robb biogs of Rimbaud...
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Ellman on Joyce is the only one I've seen talked about as a great work in its own right rather than just very good secondary literature.
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jenks replied to the thread Good (and bad) Biographies of Writers.That’s a rather vicious one. There is a three volume Pound biog that is forensic in its detail. Probably more information than anyone...
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Inspired by @Benny Bunter asking about Ackroyd’s Eliot and also reading that Ellman’s biography of Joyce is to be the subject of its own...
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jenks replied to the thread The Waste Land (1922).It’s good enough if you want to get the main points - line you say no verse quoted which makes it awkward when actually discussing his...
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There's a strangeness about poetry in translation that becomes part of its poetic effect.
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Finally
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I keep missing Dickens atm Proust is very good and in ways Dickens never could be but vice versa of course and what's worse is every...
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jenks replied to the thread Roiling football blather.Not far off - COYS
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jenks replied to the thread Audiobooks.Just seen this on Audible planning to have AI generated narrators for audiobooks...
