Friday, March 7, 2008

TO HAVE BEEN IN LISBON. PESSOA, ALAIN TANNER

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----High Road--- 1. At the beginning of February a woman from Harper Collins asked me if I would like to join a group of writers in Lisbon, ...
Tuesday, March 4, 2008

ROBERT PINGET, RICHARD PRICE AND SO WHY BOTHER?

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----how---- George K a psychoanalyst friend used to say that the most intractable problem his patients had to face was that they had ruined ...
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Sunday, March 2, 2008

MUSEUMS ARE GARBAGE DUMPS: JACQUES RIGAUT, EUGENE LAMBE, PIERRE DRIEU la ROCHELLE, NICOLAS POUSSIN

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---what--- Museums are garbage dumps. They are a little better organized than the rubbish pits beloved of archaeologists... Of course the c...
Monday, February 25, 2008

NICOLAS POUSSIN, ERWIN PANOFSKY , MARY ENGELBREIT and E.M. CIORAN

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--WHY-- Around noon on Sunday I was reading Erwin Panofsky's ET IN ARCADIA EGO: Poussin and The Elegiac Tradition because I am going up ...
Tuesday, February 19, 2008

ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET EST MORT AND THE LIFE OF RILEY

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ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET EST MORT. The headline and front page on the two major French newspapers, Le Monde and Le Figaro. ...
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Saturday, February 16, 2008

MY FAUST by PAUL VALERY, HARALD WEINRICH, NICOLAS POUSSIN, FERNANDO PESSOA

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another "Whereas before Kant morality was still expressed in terms of virtues (and immorality in terms of vices), Giovanni Della C...
Monday, February 11, 2008

GLENWAY WESCOTT, LARRY WOIWODE, WILLIAM MAXWELL ...THE PERIL OF ... A LONGING FOR CERTAINTY... AN OPERATION... ROBERT PINGET, JULIAN GREEN

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FIRST OF TWO PARTS. I have been reading A STEP FROM DEATH by Larry Woiwode in preparation for a review. Already I know I will not be allowe...
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