And what's wrong with chin-up resolve? I happen to think that Kim is a great novel about more than chin-up resolve.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
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And what's wrong with chin-up resolve? I happen to think that Kim is a great novel about more than chin-up resolve.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Virgil, was that a rhetoric question?
Jan 28
On this day in 1873 Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette) was born outside Paris. Although much about her is blurred by her mythologizing and her autobiographical fiction, Colette was one of the most popular writers and provocative personalities in the first half of the twentieth century. On the basis of her fifty books and her full, frank life, she is credited and blamed with much...
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Jan 29
On this day in 1728 John Gay's The Beggar's Opera opened in London. Its satire and singability made it a first-run sell-out, a cultural craze across England, the most produced play of the 18th century, and the original "ballad opera," first in the Gilbert and Sullivan line. As one first-week review reported, "it hath made Rich [the theater manager] very Gay, and probably will make Gay very Rich."
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Yes, unless someone disputes it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jay
Not me, haven't read much of Kipling, actually I am still to read The Jungle Book (other than a children's comic that is ;)), I was just making sure before I went balistic :)
If you are going to read the Jungle Book, start with "Quiquern," just to clear your mind of any preconceptions you may have about Kipling.
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January 30th
On this day in 1649, died Charles Stuart, writer of "Eikon Basilike." :angel:
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On this day in 1933 Ezra Pound met with Benito Mussolini. This was a brief, one-time talk, but it would bring out the worst in Pound's personality and lead to personal disaster. It would also inspire some of the best of modern poetry -- the Bollingen Prize-winning Pisan Cantos, written while Pound was in detention, charged with treason.
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Now there's a coincidence. I post a poem from Pound and he turns up here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
I would love to have the book of the month one month be Kim. It's set in India, and I was curious how those on the forum from India would find it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jay
On this day in 1948, J. D. Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" was published in the New Yorker; in the same magazine, on the same day in 1953, Salinger's "Teddy" also appeared. These are the first and last selections in Nine Stories (1953), Salinger's only collection apart from various bootlegged editions of the other, forty-odd stories.
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On this day in 1814 Lord Byron's "The Corsair" was published, selling out its entire first run of 10,000 copies. The poem was one of a handful of melodramatic verse-tales written by Byron between 1812-16, a period in which he was at the height of poetic fame in England. Pirate captain Conrad is the Byronic homme fatale, one who will risk all, including his beloved Medora, in order to rescue Gulnare, chief slave in the Turkish Pacha's harem, although he will not stoop to kill the sleeping Pacha in order to rescue himself. By this specific chivalry, and a life of dash and passion, "He left a Corsair's name to other times, / Linked with one virtue and a thousand crimes."
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On this day in 1970 Bertrand Russell died, aged ninety-seven. Like Henri Bergson before him, Russell won his 1950 Nobel Prize in literature without ever having published any. In presenting the award, the most that the Swedish Academy could offer to justify their selection of a mathematician-philosopher-social activist was the view that Russell often wrote as "the outspoken hero in a Shaw comedy" talked, and that his commitment to "rationality and humanity" was "in the spirit of Nobel's intention."
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On this day in 1968 Neal Cassady died, at the age of forty-one. Cassady was not only Jack Kerouac's wheelman on the cross-country trips that inspired On the Road but a direct influence on Kerouac's style. His rambling, benzedrine-and-booze letters to Kerouac aimed for "a continuous chain of undisciplined thought," and invited his friend to "fall into a spontaneous groove" with him by mail. Only after getting this advice (and his own pile of bennies and his 120 ft. roll of paper) did Kerouac move beyond the "phony architectures" (i.e. traditional prose) of his rough draft into "innocent go-ahead confession, the discipline of making the mind the slave of the tongue."
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On this day in 1959, Carson McCullers hosted a small luncheon party in order that seventy-four-year-old Baroness Karen Blixen-Finecke (Isak Dinesen) could meet Marilyn Monroe. By all accounts, the three women hit it off wonderfully -- though Arthur Miller says the legend of them dancing together on McCullers's marble-topped dinner table is an exaggeration.
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February 7th
On this day in 1823 dies Mrs Radcliffe, authoress of "Mysteries of Udolpho." Not only was she the writer of this most famous of Gothic novels, but of her it has also been said "the praise may be claimed for Mrs Radcliffe of having been the first to introduce into her prose fictions a beautiful and fanciful tone of natural description and impressive narrative, which had hitherto been exclusively applied to poetry."
Also, on this day in 1592, was murdered the Bonny Earl of Moray, subject of a famous ballad.