[lbo-talk] [Not sent] Re: What we lose in translation

shag shag at cleandraws.com
Fri Aug 1 17:39:38 PDT 2008


man, it is so big and hard and throbbing. and glistening too! :)

At 11:13 AM 8/1/2008, andie nachgeborenen 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.
>
>--- On Fri, 8/1/08, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] [Not sent] Re: What we lose in translation
> > To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> > Date: Friday, August 1, 2008, 4:16 AM
> > How can anybody read Ulysses only once? :) That's the
> > only work of fiction I have picked up repeatedly. It never
> > ceases to amaze.
> >
> > --- On Fri, 8/1/08, andie nachgeborenen
> > <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > A dreadful confession: I have got 70 pages into
> > Swann's
> > > Way about 10 times and no further. I can't do
> > Proust.
> > > When I was a child with depraved tendencies I just
> > read the
> > > "good" parts of Ulysses. I have read the
> > whole
> > > thing -- once.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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