Forum: World Events
12-17-2014
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Replies: 13
Views: 11,285
Re: Writers Battle Amazon
I closed my Amazon account years ago and used to be quite proud of the fact. Imagine my surprise when I learned that AbeBooks, where I have made nearly all my purchases since then, is in fact just an...
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Forum: Off Topic
01-02-2014
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Replies: 7
Views: 6,537
Re: Bookshops in London?
Please visit Peter Harrington at 100 Fulham Road and report back to me. They have an amazing inventory if my AbeBooks searches are anything to go by. Nothing in there costs less than £100, so you...
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Forum: General Discussion
02-06-2013
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Replies: 18
Views: 31,126
Re: Translating Zapffe's On the Tragic.
A very commendable undertaking. I once promised to try something similar and never delivered so much as a foreword, and so I'll refrain from that kind of grandstanding this time around. However, I...
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Forum: Philosophy
01-24-2013
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Replies: 77
Views: 51,656
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Forum: Philosophy
01-23-2013
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Replies: 77
Views: 51,656
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Forum: Philosophy
01-23-2013
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Replies: 77
Views: 51,656
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Forum: Philosophy
01-23-2013
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Replies: 77
Views: 51,656
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Forum: General Discussion
01-23-2013
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Replies: 145
Views: 62,261
Re: I just don't get . . .
a) M. R. James. Read a few stories, found them to be quite boring, couldn't care less about the misfortunes of gentleman scholars who take extended vacations in the Alps just to steal things from...
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Forum: Philosophy
01-22-2013
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Replies: 77
Views: 51,656
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Forum: Philosophy
01-21-2013
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Replies: 77
Views: 51,656
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Forum: Philosophy
01-21-2013
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Replies: 77
Views: 51,656
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Forum: General Discussion
01-02-2013
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Replies: 8
Views: 6,947
Re: Any Icelandic Weird Fiction Recommendations?
There is the pseudonymous Sjón, whose novels are written up by broadsheet reviewers (and off by me) as magic realism. Two of them are available in English: From the Mouth of the Whale and The Blue...
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Forum: Musicians
12-11-2012
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Replies: 533
Views: 172,923
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Forum: General Discussion
11-28-2012
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Replies: 19
Views: 21,628
Re: pessimistic/nihilistic thinkers thread
Jakob Elias Poritzky is a recent discovery of mine. The "preface" to his debut collection of interlinked stories reads as follows (allowing for the usual reservations regarding my translation...
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Forum: General Discussion
11-28-2012
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Replies: 19
Views: 21,628
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Forum: Rants & Ravings
11-05-2012
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Replies: 12
Views: 7,743
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Forum: Other Authors
10-25-2012
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Replies: 45
Views: 21,794
Re: "Quiet" Writers
I doubt I do. It's true, though, that Magnus is positively radiating dannelse. I bet he doesn't even listen to metal.
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Forum: Other Authors
10-25-2012
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Replies: 45
Views: 21,794
Re: "Quiet" Writers
This reminds me of a somewhat recent trend in non-fiction, of writers exploring a subject, usually natural or urban history, by way of its periphery: walking along dreary arterial roads, say, to...
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Forum: Other Authors
10-24-2012
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Replies: 45
Views: 21,794
Re: "Quiet" Writers
I was just about to say that The Go-Between is an excellent example of, to reverse Sand's phrase, "quiet incident". Writing about the past from his vantage point in the present, the narrator is able...
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Forum: Various
08-21-2012
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Replies: 22
Views: 14,757
Re: The Best Live Album?
Vital by Van der Graaf. From what I understand, conventional wisdom at the time had it that VdGG were a mediocre live act. But when I listen to this album and the BBC sessions, I get the impression...
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Forum: Literature
05-02-2012
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Replies: 21
Views: 16,333
Re: Librarything
I just started doing this, come be my special book friend or something: Ingenlunde (http://www.librarything.com/profile/Ingenlunde). My library, of which about half has been added so far, is far from...
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Forum: General Discussion
04-26-2012
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Replies: 65
Views: 55,428
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Forum: Various
12-18-2011
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Replies: 33
Views: 19,487
Re: Love Songs
For simplicity and straightforwardness I like this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI8KBTpOkek
Muffled drums, a lone guitar, a resonant voice capable of making certain clichés seem both...
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Forum: Items Wanted
12-07-2011
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Replies: 43
Views: 21,767
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Forum: Themed Quotations
11-08-2011
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Replies: 97
Views: 44,097
Re: Great Opening Lines
Ezechiel von Marx was the best somnambulist I have seen in my life.
—Gustav Meyrink: "The Secret of Hathaway Castle"
Death has a bad memory.
—Sophus Michaëlis: The Dance of Death
Edith loved...
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