tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11301779.post113535389941495584..comments2024-02-16T19:27:54.675-05:00Comments on Think Denk: Holiday CheerJeremy Denkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16997540220711182521noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11301779.post-1135740269535841592005-12-27T22:24:00.000-05:002005-12-27T22:24:00.000-05:00Excellent choice in Nabokov's Pnin. For more anti...Excellent choice in Nabokov's Pnin. For more anti-holiday reading of academic hubris and hijinks (and to see what eventually happens to Pnin) there is also Nabokov's Pale Fire.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11301779.post-1135523560068391302005-12-25T10:12:00.000-05:002005-12-25T10:12:00.000-05:00You've prompted me to compile my own top ten list ...You've prompted me to compile my own top ten list of CDs: Soundtrack for the War on Christmas. Somewhere between "My Favorite Things" by Coltrane and "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road" by Lucinda Williams, I realized the only recording of Beethoven's Opus 132 accessible to me at this moment is by the Cleveland Quartet. I looked at the rarely used disk and moaned how I wished I could listen to my old LP of the Yale Quartet playing it, but it's been years since I've owned a turntable. I think we always favor the first recording we encounter of beloved pieces, and it was their performance of this work that cemented its importance to me. I wondered: what are the chances I can grab it from iTunes and be enjoying it once again within minutes? Mirabile dictu, it's almost enough to make you believe in Santa Claus. Happy Festivus!DOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02740467284191994718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11301779.post-1135472778945628912005-12-24T20:06:00.000-05:002005-12-24T20:06:00.000-05:00For working in a library, I've only read a couple ...For working in a library, I've only read a couple of these books. How sad! I do love Atwood.Ms. Doehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17173156079954404841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11301779.post-1135396665477807392005-12-23T22:57:00.000-05:002005-12-23T22:57:00.000-05:00oops, afterthoughtsHow about Les Illuminations as ...oops, afterthoughts<BR/><BR/>How about Les Illuminations as set by BB for soul-invigorating prosody and uncanny music? And, will you tell us what you think of Brokeback Mountain?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11301779.post-1135396396118438012005-12-23T22:53:00.000-05:002005-12-23T22:53:00.000-05:00Thanks for the b'ful Marianne Moore - I will set a...Thanks for the b'ful Marianne Moore - I will set aside Bishop and recurse a layer to Ms. Moore, as I clearly should have done earlier. Amazing lines.<BR/><BR/>But really, *both* Emerson and Thoreau on a happy list? Seems like overkill to me.<BR/><BR/>Cheer to all -Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11301779.post-1135381583047061142005-12-23T18:46:00.000-05:002005-12-23T18:46:00.000-05:00I believe this will give you the general tone of t...I believe this will give you the general tone of the end of <I>Casterbridge</I>:<BR/><BR/>MICHAEL HENCHARD'S WILL<BR/><BR/>"That Elizabeth-Jane Farfrae be not told of my death, or made to grieve on account of me.<BR/> "& that I be not bury'd in consecrated ground.<BR/> "& that no sexton be asked to toll the bell.<BR/> "& that nobody is wished to see my dead body.<BR/> "& that no murners walk behind me at my funeral.<BR/> "& that no flours be planted on my grave,<BR/> "& that no man remember me.<BR/> "To this I put my name.<BR/><BR/>MICHAEL HENCHARDErinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06736176758196612844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11301779.post-1135374090811223562005-12-23T16:41:00.000-05:002005-12-23T16:41:00.000-05:00It seems in vogue to write about books these days....It seems in vogue to write about books these days. Our unofficial blog-ring has been doing the "15 things about books" meme, check it out when you take a break from Beethoven!<BR/><BR/>word verif: tbkwm: the book woman, of course! (one of my co-workers has book woman as her vanity liscense plate)Sarah Louisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00251034210962259082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11301779.post-1135371962476918432005-12-23T16:06:00.000-05:002005-12-23T16:06:00.000-05:00Poor Michael Henchard withers away as one sad old ...Poor Michael Henchard withers away as one sad old bastard; the note he leaves, pathetic as it is, is proof that we can only forgive him. And the last lines via Elizabeth about "a general drama of pain" are Hardy's apex.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com