Cymru Roberts
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Dude, this whole topic has been a brain melter for me. Rubaiyat parodies is a genre I didn't know existed. The Rubaiyat itself I know nothing about; I
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In the forward JLB says he set out to write minimalist stories like Robert Louis Stevenson. I can’t say if he is Stevensian or not, but I can tell you that these stories are minimalist masterpieces. How can he possibly pack so much in four-to-six pag ...more | |
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DNF out of a sense of not wanting to hurt myself by continuing to read it. And not wanting to soak in other people's misery, as it seems disrespectful. It started out really good I must say. I'm interested in the paranormal -- for reasons I continuall ...more |
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Kinda hard to know where to begin, considering this book doesn't even have a decent Goodreads thumbnail. I found it by complete accident as I was looking for a book of Henry James' criticism and the title alone Literature and the Sixth Sense made me ...more | |
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The essays on Emerson and George Eliot (which are really reviews of biographies of both) are priceless. James is a guy whose literary criticism gets quoted in little morsels here and there: his connection and appreciation of Hawthorne, his dislike fo ...more | |
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“Miracle” and “miraculous” aren’t completely alien terms to describe literature but it might be safe to say that in using them to describe any particular book, one is susceptible to hyperbole. Or maybe, they are consistently apt terms, as much so as ...more | |
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Ms Hurston's Eatonville is a much an imaginative location as Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha but I suppose there are reasons she is not considered as great a Southern author as Sir William. She doesn't fit into easy categories — she's Southern but wrote mos ...more | |
“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
― Rebecca
― Rebecca
“To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”
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“He chose The Metamorphosis over The Trial, he chose Bartleby over Moby-Dick, he chose A Simple Heart over Bouvard and Pecuchet, and A Christmas Carol over A Tale of Two Cities or The Pickwick Papers. What a sad paradox, thought Amalfitano. Now even bookish pharmacists are afraid to take on the great, imperfect, torrential works, books that blaze paths into the unknown. They choose the perfect exercises of the great masters. Or what amounts to the same thing: they want to watch the great masters spar, but they have no interest in real combat, when the great masters struggle against that something, that something that terrifies us all, that something that cows us and spurs us on, amid blood and mortal wounds and stench.”
― 2666
― 2666
“Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world’s foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will regret that too; laugh at the world’s foolishness or weep over it, you will regret both. Believe a woman, you will regret it; believe her not, you will also regret it… Hang yourself, you will regret it; do not hang yourself, and you will regret that too; hang yourself or don’t hang yourself, you’ll regret it either way; whether you hang yourself or do not hang yourself, you will regret both. This, gentlemen, is the essence of all philosophy.”
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“Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another.”
― The Iliad
― The Iliad
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Majenta wrote: "Greetings and Bom Dia, Cymru! Friend Request Accepted, thanks for Requesting! Congratulations on your books! I like your cure for writer's block ("used to use kid gloves, but I've grown up now...a ..."
Yo, Majayjay.... you know I dont know how in the everlivin' eff I never saw this comment. Maybe I've replied to this before. I hate GR in so many ways... but it's cool too. I know Ive pestered you about my books, so sorry... if you;'re ever up for a chat about a particular book I;m down. Just sayin. Peace.
Yo, Majayjay.... you know I dont know how in the everlivin' eff I never saw this comment. Maybe I've replied to this before. I hate GR in so many ways... but it's cool too. I know Ive pestered you about my books, so sorry... if you;'re ever up for a chat about a particular book I;m down. Just sayin. Peace.
Greetings and Bom Dia, Cymru! Friend Request Accepted, thanks for Requesting! Congratulations on your books! I like your cure for writer's block ("used to use kid gloves, but I've grown up now...a bit" especially! You're probably getting lots of Likes for that!) Have a good tomorrow, happy reading, writing, and everything else!
Best wishes from Majenta
Best wishes from Majenta