The Wall sounds like a great read.
"Do you mind if I reel in this fish?" - Dale Harris
"For sale: baby shoes, never worn." - Ernest Hemingway
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Going once...
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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Going twice...
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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Wait, we have a tie. What now?
"Par instants je suis le Pauvre Navire
[...] Par instants je meurs la mort du Pecheur
[...] O mais! par instants"
--"Birds in the Night" by Paul Verlaine (1844-1896). Join the discussion here: http://www.online-literature.com/for...5&goto=newpost
Shoot I didn't get a chance to come back and vote in time!
In the event of a tie we read Nausea right?
and somehow a dog
has taken itself & its tail considerably away
into the mountains or sea or sky, leaving
behind: me, wag.
- John Berryman
Are we waiting for a tie breaker? Someone please vote!
"I have so often dreamed of you that you become unreal." ~ Robert Desnos
I'm about halfway through Nausea. I'm a bit disappointed really. I don't think I'll be able to read whichever book is belatedly chosen, but I wouldn't mind seeing what others think of it.
and somehow a dog
has taken itself & its tail considerably away
into the mountains or sea or sky, leaving
behind: me, wag.
- John Berryman
What disappoints you about the books?Originally Posted by Il Penseroso
"Do you mind if I reel in this fish?" - Dale Harris
"For sale: baby shoes, never worn." - Ernest Hemingway
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We need a tie breaker!
"I have so often dreamed of you that you become unreal." ~ Robert Desnos
I've already read The Stranger and, as some might kow, didn't like it; however, I have purchased a copy of it in French today. My French has suffered during this summer and needs to be improved for this coming semester. I've already voted for the Wall, I stand by that decision, but if The Stranger is picked I will join the discussion.
"Do you mind if I reel in this fish?" - Dale Harris
"For sale: baby shoes, never worn." - Ernest Hemingway
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I don't know if it's the translation or perhaps that I read To the Lighthouse just before beginning Nausea, but the prose just seems a bit flat. That combined with a story where nothing happens I guess just turned me a bit off initially, but I'll have to get back into it. It's not bad, just probably not what I've been in the mood for lately.
I still have yet to read any Camus. I'll have to change that soon. I respect your ability to read it in the original French, very admirable. I only wish I knew a foreign language well enough to read an entire book in it.
and somehow a dog
has taken itself & its tail considerably away
into the mountains or sea or sky, leaving
behind: me, wag.
- John Berryman
This quote from Sartre may answer this:
"In order that the most ordinary event should become an adventure, it is only necessary that it should be recounted. That's what deceives people: man is always a story-teller, he lives surrounded by his own and other's stories and sees all that happens to him through them; he tries to live his life as if it were a story he was telling. But you must choose: Live or recount. ... When you live, nothing happens. The scene changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are never any beginnings"
"Do you mind if I reel in this fish?" - Dale Harris
"For sale: baby shoes, never worn." - Ernest Hemingway
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Too bad this failed to blossom.
"Do you mind if I reel in this fish?" - Dale Harris
"For sale: baby shoes, never worn." - Ernest Hemingway
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Yes, I would like to apologise for this. Due to some unexpected developments in my personal life, I could not carry it out as we had planned (I was away from the forum for a while); I owe you guys one.
We will save it for next year!
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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