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« Reply #105 on: 17:24:58, 14-09-2007 » |
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What is English Tengwar?
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Made by Thompson & son, at the Violin & c. the West end of St. Paul's Churchyard, LONDON
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« Reply #106 on: 17:27:02, 14-09-2007 » |
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... but that doesn't result at all from an aversion to long books, I might add: some of my favourite books are relatively large.
Likely to see you down here on a sunday afternoon then?  (or whatever franchise you folks have over in Britland) On the topic of these Big Books; I have to say that The Man Without Qualities is one of the most pleasant and simultaniously canonical (and therefor morally gratifying) reading experiences I've had to date. A hearty chuckle on every page, and knowing that you'll get to be all, like "Oh, I've just finished reading Musil's SEMINAL masterpiece" at the end of it all. I know this is veering rather severely off topic, but I think it, as books go, worth a mention. Back on-topic: No Proust yet for me. |
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« Reply #107 on: 17:34:40, 14-09-2007 » |
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Likely to see you down here on a sunday afternoon then?
Bookies now, but the architecture looks very like one of our local pubs! Yes I'm sometimes down the pub.... |
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« Reply #108 on: 18:15:15, 14-09-2007 » |
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Yes I'm sometimes down the pub....
... and I've been known to base my arguments on licensed premises... I did get 2/3 of the way through Musil and I do think it's a wonderful piece of work, but it was a while ago so I'd now have to start again I fear. |
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« Reply #109 on: 18:23:29, 14-09-2007 » |
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Speaking of long books, I've been reading "Infinite Jest" for something like 6 yrs, and I'm barely halfway through.
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« Reply #110 on: 19:19:53, 14-09-2007 » |
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I've never read a word of The Faerie Queene either - who has amongst posters here, who can thus say 'Naa, Naa ni Naa Naa' to many of the rest of us?
I have. I had to in college and I must say I quite enjoyed it. Never read any Homer, though, if that makes up for it. |
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« Reply #111 on: 19:28:26, 14-09-2007 » |
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Speaking of long books, I've been reading "Infinite Jest" for something like 6 yrs, and I'm barely halfway through.
Is that supposed to be an embarrassing, cringeworthy admission? Try a bit harder... I'm quite familiar with Homer, but I've never read a word of Chaucer. |
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« Reply #112 on: 20:17:01, 14-09-2007 » |
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... but that doesn't result at all from an aversion to long books, I might add: some of my favourite books are relatively large.
I have never read any of Proust's magnum opus, but have read heaps about it, as if that was a good substitute. I wouldn't have bothered starting if it hadn't been for this book:  Which I still come back to for inspiration in the ongoing readathon from time to time. I've often found it a lovely uplifting read. Easy to knock it though. |
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« Reply #113 on: 20:30:57, 14-09-2007 » |
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Speaking of long books, I've been reading "Infinite Jest" for something like 6 yrs, and I'm barely halfway through.
Is that supposed to be an embarrassing, cringeworthy admission? Try a bit harder... Okayokay. Jeesh. Another stab ... Here's a Barrett-specific admission: I've never read Molloy, Malone Dies, or The Unnamable, though they've been on my shelf for about 10 years. |
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« Reply #114 on: 20:37:07, 14-09-2007 » |
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I've never read Molloy, Malone Dies, or The Unnamable, though they've been on my shelf for about 10 years.
That's more like it. Welcome to the League of Ignorami. |
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« Reply #115 on: 20:45:16, 14-09-2007 » |
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I've made forays into both The Unnamable and L'Innommable but so far forays they have remained. The others are only on my shelf because they're in the same volume...  Hell and Purgatory I managed but Paradise still eludes me. My utter cluelessness when it comes to tickling the ivories is a source of great sadness to me. I think if a fairy were to emerge from my teapot and grant me one thing I could change about myself as a musician, fixing that would have to be my choice. Don't know if that counts as 'ignorance' as such though. |
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« Reply #116 on: 21:04:57, 14-09-2007 » |
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I've made forays into both The Unnamable and L'Innommable but so far forays they have remained. Dear oh dear oh dear. utter cluelessness when it comes to tickling the ivories I bet you anything I'm worse at it than you are. |
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« Reply #117 on: 21:23:52, 14-09-2007 » |
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I bet you anything I'm worse at it than you are.
So almost certainly are billions of others but somehow when I'm looking at something that seems perfectly simple which I would love to be able to do and I can only grind my way through it one wrong chord after another it's somehow no consolation...  |
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« Reply #118 on: 21:49:48, 14-09-2007 » |
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Ollie, you mustn't bend over the keys and frown quite so much. That will make it easier.
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« Reply #119 on: 21:55:49, 14-09-2007 » |
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utter cluelessness when it comes to tickling the ivories I bet you anything I'm worse at it than you are. I'm probably quite abit worse than the pair of you either put together or taken apart; this is an admission not so much of ignorance as utter incompetence and ineptitude in something that nevertheless means so very much to me (it's called playing the piano, for the avoidance of doubt)... Best, Alistair |
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