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Ivebeenreadinglately: More from Penelope Fitzgerald's Charlotte Mew and Her Friends
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I've Been Reading Lately is what it sounds like. I spend most of my free time reading, and here's where I write about what I've read. Tuesday, May 26, 2015. More from Penelope Fitzgerald's Charlotte Mew and Her Friends. It was the great time for small, thin-paper, verse anthologies, with a ribbon for a bookmark, which went easily into the side-pocket, and were taken for long tramps in the fresh air, returning with grass and pressed flowers between the pages. Poems of Love and Earth. One of Fitzgerald's g...
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Ivebeenreadinglately: Balbec
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I've Been Reading Lately is what it sounds like. I spend most of my free time reading, and here's where I write about what I've read. Wednesday, June 24, 2015. After a lengthy period of what can only be described as dithering, summer seems finally to have settled on Chicago. So it's appropriate that the mail has brought me correspondence from a vacation getaway: my mysterious Texan correspondent has appeared again, this time with a postcard of the seaside. There are instances, albeit infrequent, in which...
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Ivebeenreadinglately: 7/1/15
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I've Been Reading Lately is what it sounds like. I spend most of my free time reading, and here's where I write about what I've read. Wednesday, July 29, 2015. Thinking more about utopias with Darran Anderson's. After I wrote last week's post on utopias- need I even append "failed," or does "utopia" imply that these days? I began reading Darran Anderson. S idiosyncratic, vertiginously referential, overstuffed, pleasantly oracular and fascinating new book. And to some, the pull of order never lessens- the...
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Ivebeenreadinglately: Robert Burton and The Anatomy of Melancholy, always relevant
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I've Been Reading Lately is what it sounds like. I spend most of my free time reading, and here's where I write about what I've read. Monday, June 29, 2015. Robert Burton and The Anatomy of Melancholy. You greet the night, with "Woe! But there's also Charles Lamb, who speaks I think for the odd mixture of- as Burton might have seen it- humors in many of us when he writes,. I cannot divest me of an unseasonable disposition to levity upon the most awful occasions. As I read the. Obergefell v. Hodges. At Ox...
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Ivebeenreadinglately: 11/1/14
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I've Been Reading Lately is what it sounds like. I spend most of my free time reading, and here's where I write about what I've read. Tuesday, November 25, 2014. This time, though, I found myself turning to James Boswell's inexhaustible. Which can be picked up or put down at any point. Almost every page has something of interest, some line of wisdom or wit from either the subject or the author. Which led me to think of the classical tradition of the Sortes Vergilianae. We get Proverbs 3:11-12:. And now t...
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Ivebeenreadinglately: 3/1/15
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I've Been Reading Lately is what it sounds like. I spend most of my free time reading, and here's where I write about what I've read. Wednesday, March 25, 2015. Those of you who keep up with Twitter. That my employer, the University of Chicago Press, will publish in October. With its Lubitsch-style whirl of counts and ne'erdowells, has risen substantially in my estimation. It now vies with. To be my favorite of Powell's non-. Novels. (As Powell himself put it in his memoirs, the reviews were "well-di...
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Ivebeenreadinglately: "Lewis had his enemies, but he had their measure."
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I've Been Reading Lately is what it sounds like. I spend most of my free time reading, and here's where I write about what I've read. Monday, June 15, 2015. Lewis had his enemies, but he had their measure.". The sixth of Gladstone's children, she had been brought up in the huge brilliant rough-and-tumble of Gladstones, Lytteltons and Glynnes at Hawarden, where there were enough people in the family to sing the. Investigations will be underway shortly; I'll report back when I know more! The difficult Bacc...
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I Found This Tape: June 2014
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I Found This Tape. Counting minutes motioned motions walking through. Moments come we're a. Living when movements come we're alive in. Sun bricky road on. The windy winding winters road. I FOUND THIS TAPE. Links to this post. Grove is a fancy word for orchard. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I FOUND THIS TAPE. Davis, CA, United States. I FOUND THIS TAPE feels the Internet can compensate for an enormous amount of free time and a lack of friends. He is mistaken. View my complete profile. A History in Rust.
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Ivebeenreadinglately: 8/1/15
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I've Been Reading Lately is what it sounds like. I spend most of my free time reading, and here's where I write about what I've read. Monday, August 24, 2015. Though he never transformed it into fiction- saying in a 1975. A Yank at Oxford. And begin to make a name for himself as a reliable writer of screenplays? Would we have had no. Nowadays, to the extent that Powell's Hollywood period is known at all, it's for his brief meeting with F. Scott Fitzgerald. (Side note to those possessing a time ma...One c...
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