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The news of the Milton scandal has reached the bookslut blog. Seems it's big news if it's here and there. But the great thing is, thanks to the whole silly subject, JuniperWoolf posted Marvell's poem...

Fantastic, J.D.
13 lines is bad luck, though.

Yes, I want to discuss it. I read it only after your post but I find it fascinating for some reason.
Rebuked by man she gives herself half-heartedly to God?
Rebuked by man she finds strength in...

I haven't watched it myself but Yale (oyc.yale.edu) has a Dante course that may be an aid. The course on the American novel since '45 was very good.

Sound your barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world with 'Song of Myself'. Too long, I guess, for a reading but always uplifting.

Save AK for the colder months. Faulkner is for the summer. The dust of dry roads in your throat only remedied by an admixture of whiskey and sugar-water.

Although I'm just 100 pages into it, I suggest Oskar from The Tin Drum. As I read the narrative I believe what Oskar tells me he can do with his drum and voice. When I put the book down I think 'this...

Divine Right's Trip 4/4
I may be biased because the setting is close to home. There is a fence building scene that rivals Levin in the wheat fields.
By Night in Chile 2/4
Disappointed...

I envision a massive get out the vote campaign by both the Objectivists and Scientologists. Funny, though. I would have thought the latter would have creamed the former.

Try Divine Right's Trip by Gurney Norman for a good novel by one of the Merry Pranksters.

Like you I generally stick to the tried and true. But I have been trying to read more current stuff. I read a review of Roberto Bolano's works in some periodical and am hooked on him now. I perused...

Me, too.

Prix Goncourt for France is well noted in Wikipedia. It has a list of English translations.

Two Spanish language prizes are the Romulo Gallegos and the Miguel de Cervantes. Their wiki...

The narrator in Hunger throws up a couple times. I think in At Swim-Two-Birds there's puking. Definitely in 2666.

May I ask why you want to know?

Cograts to DM and thanks to 5th.

Yeah.. I laugh now but when I was a young dips*** Atlas Shrugged did help get me off my butt and working hard.

:lol: I commend your pithy retort.

OP, it takes a while to appreciate Shakespeare. There is a language barrier to overcome as well as the dramatic format. But once you get into the flow after...

Desolation, thanks for the chuckle. A good friend went through an Objectivist phase and, man, he was hardcore. I can dig the philosophy of rational self interest in theory and am still compelled by...

Ah, Mathor, you beat me to the punch. Ada I liked as much as Lolita. Might have liked it even better but I didn't get half of the allusions.

Well, PoemsEulogy stole my psychopathic thunder but here goes...
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After the first one killing them was easy
Before you know you're...

"But a short slumber" is the better of the two, I think. Maybe substitute "Just" or "Only" for "But"


"Irrecoverable" doesn't seem the right word. "Unredeemable" maybe


I think "burst into...

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Speaking of Nabokov, didn't he translate Brothers Karamazov? Like many here, it seems, I am a Pevear/Volokhonsky fan but would be interested in VN's effort.

Yes it is. It's more straightforward narrative than, say, The Sound and the Fury. Unmistakeably William F., though. Requiem for a Nun is a sort of sequel to it. Unless I disremember (one of my...

I think here is where I'll start. It seems to be highly regarded. It's always been in the back of my mind to read it.


No, no. I can't make a judgement for good or ill. I was only about 20 pages...

Someone once remarked that the shadow of Goethe scared all the would-be German novelists into philosophy.