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  • asdf123
    Member
    • Jan 2010
    • 49

    Any fans of Paul Valéry?
    I just heard his quote and want to pick up some of his writing.

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    • viv1984viv
      Senior Member
      • Feb 2008
      • 194

      Originally posted by Faust View Post
      It's a very fast read, Viv. Super short chapters, not dense at all, a lot of dialogue. The preacher's speech at the Church is spine-chilling. I wonder if it inspired the one in The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man.
      Thanks very much faust, appreciated.
      Notes from the Vomitorium - The Nerve Of It -

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      • BECOMING-INTENSE
        Senior Member
        • Jan 2008
        • 1868

        I'm reading these two I found under the Christmas tree ...

        Poems Of André Breton(2006)
        Translated And Edited By
        Jean-Pierre Cauvin and Mary Ann Caws


        The Picture Of Dorian Gray
        An Annotated, Uncensored Edition(2011)

        Edited By Nicholas Frankel

        Are you afraid of women, Doctor?
        Of course.

        www.becomingmads.com

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        • eleven crows
          Senior Member
          • Mar 2011
          • 546

          don quixote, as translated by john rutherford. tough to pick a translation, but grossman lost out to the less directly, though more tonally faithful rutherford.

          only a hundred or so pages in. hilarious so far.

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          • Johngd
            Senior Member
            • Feb 2009
            • 152

            Never finished don Quijote. Think it was pretty boring, but maybe it was the translation. Atleast the book looks good in the livingroom

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            • eleven crows
              Senior Member
              • Mar 2011
              • 546

              if you made it as far as when he lays waste to the funeral procession or plays alchemist to form his healing elixir with explosive results, i can't understand how you found it boring. maybe it was the translation...

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              • een
                Senior Member
                • Sep 2006
                • 317

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                • trentk
                  Senior Member
                  • Oct 2010
                  • 709


                  The Vital Materialist Nicene Creed, or "vibrant matter in 100 words or less":
                  Originally posted by Jane Bennett
                  I believe in one matter-energy, the maker of things seen and unseen. I believe that this pluriverse is traversed by heterogeneities that are continually doing things. I believe it is wrong to deny vitality to nonhuman bodies, forces, and forms, and that a careful course of anthropomorphization can help reveal that vitality, even though it resists full translation and exceeds my comprehensive grasp. I believe that encounters with lively matter can chasten my fantasies of human mastery, highlight the com*mon materiality of all that is, expose a wider distribution of agency, and reshape the self and its interests.
                  een - what do you think of bubbles? I was just browsing amazon and considering ordering it.
                  "He described this initial impetus as like discovering that they both were looking at the same intriguing specific tropical fish, with attempts to understand it leading to a huge ferocious formalism he characterizes as a shark that leapt out of the tank."

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                  • een
                    Senior Member
                    • Sep 2006
                    • 317

                    These days reading Sloterdijk is a bit of an occupational hazard...
                    Only about a third of the way into it - a little surprised by it's relationship to Bachelard, but enjoying it so far. I am most interested in the third part, but await it's translation.
                    Last edited by een; 01-13-2012, 01:53 PM. Reason: usual caveats

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                    • between
                      Member
                      • Oct 2011
                      • 70

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                      • kirie
                        Junior Member
                        • Dec 2011
                        • 20

                        My family just bought me a Kobo as a going away gift, and I've downloaded as many Public Domain books as I can get my hands on. I'm currently reading a collection of Baudelaire's poetry.


                        A question for other users with ereaders, however. Do you miss the smell and feel of a real book? I mean, I love mine, it's incredibly useful and awesome for travelling (no more 10 pounds of books in my luggage). But when I turn it on to read I can't help but feel like something is missing.

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                        • kirie
                          Junior Member
                          • Dec 2011
                          • 20

                          ^
                          that very much could be it! It's a very convenient format, but it's lacking the personal aspect of curling up actual book.


                          I do have a habit of buying second hand books that have been well loved and marked by others, which could be why my ereader switch has been so jarring.

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                          • viv1984viv
                            Senior Member
                            • Feb 2008
                            • 194

                            Originally posted by een View Post
                            indeed - could you tell me more about this? I sorta feel now is my chance to get in early before the other 2 volumes come out....

                            let me know
                            Notes from the Vomitorium - The Nerve Of It -

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                            • trentk
                              Senior Member
                              • Oct 2010
                              • 709

                              Rilu, the term was used in jest. In the last paragraph of the book, Bennett summarized the material with a mock nicene creed.
                              Last edited by trentk; 01-22-2012, 10:46 PM.
                              "He described this initial impetus as like discovering that they both were looking at the same intriguing specific tropical fish, with attempts to understand it leading to a huge ferocious formalism he characterizes as a shark that leapt out of the tank."

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                              • Arkady
                                Senior Member
                                • Apr 2011
                                • 957

                                Originally posted by trentk View Post

                                The Vital Materialist Nicene Creed, or "vibrant matter in 100 words or less":


                                een - what do you think of bubbles? I was just browsing amazon and considering ordering it.
                                I like this book a lot. Don't know how applicable the notion really is outside the politics of environmental sustainability, but I thought there was some very interesting thinking laid out in the piece.

                                Been reading this:



                                I think it's kind of awful, to be honest. Probably won't end up finishing it.

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