December 2011
26 posts
“The Voyagers”: a lovely short film about the... →
Dec 30th
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the best of the year, in reading: a baker’s dozen...
Format inspired by this fabulous list by someone cleverer: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (trans. Jay Rubin), in which the narrator spends some time in a well; Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne, in which the narrator is born, finally;  Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar (trans. Grace Frick), in which the narrator dies, finally;  Leonard Bernstein by Humphrey Burton, in...
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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The Sea: That’s the title of a John Banville... →
HA.
Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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I woke up in the middle of the night, the rain was...
Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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“For his words did not come in a rush; they came with such pathetic slowness,...”
– Thomas Mann, “Tristan”
Dec 15th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 10th
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Dec 10th
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“‘… cousin, I did not love [the candle], I loved its burning down and, you...”
– [I am reading too much] Paul Celan
Dec 10th
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Dec 10th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 5th
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“Poetry is perhaps this: an Atemwende, a turning of our breath.”
– Paul Celan
Dec 5th
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Dec 5th
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Have revised my opinion on statistics
Have decided that they are no longer the most boring thing on the planet, but only the most boring thing on the planet UNLESS discussed by Daniel Kahneman or Helen DeWitt, at which point they miraculously become fascinating.  Speaking of Helen DeWitt: I MET her last night and am still RIDICULOUSLY excited about it. Am really itching to curl up with The Last Samurai again and forsake the world for...
Dec 2nd
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Dec 1st
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