Today was good, today was fun Tomorrow is another one
--- On Fri, 8/1/08, Charles Brown <charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us> wrote:
> From: Charles Brown <charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] [Not sent] Re: What we lose in translation
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Friday, August 1, 2008, 11:45 AM
> >>> Eubulides
> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 8:13 AM, andie nachgeborenen
> <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm now re-reading Moby Dick for the nth time.
> Others on my
> repeat-reread list: War and Peace. Anna Karenina. The
> Illiad. Dante's
> Inferno. Various Shakespeare. Milton's Paradise Lost.
> Donne's shorter
> poems. Various things by Shelley. The Threepenny Opera,
> Mother Courage,
> Galileo, The Threepenny _Novel_, Brecht's poems, some
> other Brecht. All
> five novels of Dashiell Hammett, the Continental Op
> Stories. About half
> the novels of Raymond Chandler. About half the novels of
> Dorothy Sayers.
> Kafka's stories. Just about anything by William Gibson.
> C.J. Cherryh's
> older hard sci fi. Lots of stuff by James Lee Burke.
> Flannery O'Connor's
> stories. Gravity's Rainbow, V., other Pynchon. Hmm,
> sort of short on
> diversity, aren't we? Joyce, though, Ulysses anyway,
> beautiful stuff.
> Didn't hook me the way the things I have listed have.
>
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>
> Pppfffffffffffttt. I completed my 93rd reading of Thomas
> the Tank
> Engine's "Monster Under The Shed"
> yesterevening.
>
> I'm sure it'll be on the reread list for a while
> yet....:-)
>
> Ian
>
> ^^^^^
> CB: if these readings are out loud, they could be like
> chanting.
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