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« Reply #90 on: 20:52:46, 23-07-2007 » |
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I'm afraid I can't pass the Spahli around. It's due to be published and I'm not going to steal their thunder, as it were.
Please, Ian, keep it under wraps for me.
That said, Spahlinger's original was published in MusikTexte recently. When, I don't know. I should. But another individual could look it up for us.
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« Reply #92 on: 15:19:18, 30-07-2007 » |
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Just finished this last night:  There's something about the register of German coming-of-age stories that meant it took a while for me to get into things. I was rather more affected than i thought I would be by the penultimate death as well, having little sympathy for the character themselves. Got started on the Dalkey archive this morning. Funny! |
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« Reply #93 on: 15:33:01, 30-07-2007 » |
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Mine has an old cover, so my loyal readers won't get the full experience of being there with me as I read it, but nevertheless, currently open here is the following:  Absolutely fascinating attempt to reconstruct contemporary approaches to quattrocento art based on economic, religious, rhetorical and social tropes of the time. Maybe I'll go back to school and get a degree in art history. I've been out of graduate school now for a full year and I've had enough  |
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« Reply #94 on: 18:55:29, 30-07-2007 » |
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Well, didn't take anything like a week, but I've just read Tove Jansson's Summer Book. Just lovely!
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« Reply #95 on: 19:16:16, 30-07-2007 » |
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About to begin "The Other Side of You" by Sally Vickers....
I just bought and have got about a third of the way through this Jan, I love it... how about you? A  |
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« Reply #96 on: 19:38:16, 30-07-2007 » |
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This week, I have been mostly reading .... Harry Potter Vol. 7 ! do you like the way it ends? Well, the ending or the end result was a bit predictable, but, remembering it is a children's book, it was very enjoyable. Significantly Rowling seems to be drawing a line under the Potter saga, leaving no loose ends and no scope for any further volumes - unless she decides to do the the Young Dumbledore or something like that. She has two new projects ongoing now anyway, one adult and one for children. John W |
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« Reply #97 on: 20:10:21, 30-07-2007 » |
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I'm afraid I can't pass the Spahli around. It's due to be published and I'm not going to steal their thunder, as it were.
Please, Ian, keep it under wraps for me.
That said, Spahlinger's original was published in MusikTexte recently. When, I don't know. I should. But another individual could look it up for us.
the german original isn't too hard to find. you can navigate it from the website MusikTexte http://www.musiktexte.de/ MSP's text (deutsch) can be found on the May 2007, MusikTexte 113, & is called: dies ist die zeit der konzeptiven ideologen nicht mehr (mathias spahlinger) so... "this is the time of conceptual ideologies no more" ...although that 'konzeptiven' instead of the normal 'konzeptuellen' is already nags my conscience... hope it comes out in the english soon, it would be certainly interesting to see what this fine text ends up looking like |
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« Reply #98 on: 20:43:59, 30-07-2007 » |
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dot-commie, I have the translation rights and will be exercising them in a forthcoming volume on Spahlinger and Huber for an as yet undisclosed periodical.
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« Reply #99 on: 21:44:25, 30-07-2007 » |
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Well, didn't take anything like a week, but I've just read Tove Jansson's Summer Book. Just lovely!
Tommo
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« Reply #100 on: 21:56:50, 30-07-2007 » |
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The "Winter Book" next (just to be original.....)
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« Reply #101 on: 22:01:59, 30-07-2007 » |
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"It's a rather unique format: each page is divided roughly in half, and each half has text printed facing in opposite directions ... that is, the book can be read with either cover serving as the "front", and each page has two sets of page numbers (one if read in one direction, the other in the other direction)."
Isn't this BS Johnson-like (only read one novel from him "Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry")?
Marx - Capital Vol 1 (Chapter one is quite something - those pages contrasting use-value and inherent value are real hard work hurrah!); hope to finish it and then to re-read it again, or something...someday :-)
Finished Bataille's "Story of the Eye" and Jim Thompson's "A hell of a Woman" (just love him, wish all his novels were available dammit!)
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« Reply #102 on: 22:05:27, 30-07-2007 » |
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I've got both those slated, especially after Mort and George fulminated in quite so gushing a manner about them a couple of months ago.
Propped on the martle 'slide-o'er-yer-bed' reading desk this eve is Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury. Again. Simply amazing, dangerous, radical writing - and I will never get to the bottom of it. Which is usually a good thing.
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« Reply #103 on: 22:19:43, 30-07-2007 » |
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A gushing fulminator writes:  If it's a choice in a busy life, Martle, I'd say The Summer Book is the one not to miss out on. The Winter Book is enjoyable in its own way but it's more a collection of individual bits and pieces and scraps that got collected up together and published under that title and might not grab you so much if you hadn't got to know Tove Janssons already. |
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« Reply #104 on: 22:24:37, 30-07-2007 » |
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Thanks, George.
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