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A man who wants to read and write must let the grass grow longAdfero Afferohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09653378916912708463noreply@blogger.comBlogger271125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10062506.post-10434676183828999202007-10-10T13:24:00.000+00:002007-10-10T13:31:42.695+00:00Robert BressonBresson Retrospective at BFI. Gilbert Adair does a fine essay in the Guardian today:The supreme genius of cinema I have the DVD of Au Hasard Balthazar (1966). I'm one of those who doesn't like the amateur acting. It would be interesting to know if he encouraged the actors to act in that deadpan manner, or whether that is all they could come up with. As Adair says, the star is Balthazar herselfAdfero Afferohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09653378916912708463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10062506.post-49337846308351077362007-10-05T12:48:00.000+00:002007-10-05T14:29:01.015+00:00Poetry blog - Mind of WinterCheck the blogroll: you won't find too many poetry sites. But this one, Mind of Winter, by or connected with Michael D. Hoke, which wandered across my path a few days ago, is one I like. Reading bits of that encouraged another return to a book on poetry to make one final effort to get to grips with the most basic terminological/technical aspects which I really know little about, and which never Adfero Afferohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09653378916912708463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10062506.post-1042809230864884692007-10-04T15:48:00.000+00:002007-10-05T12:02:54.361+00:00A hypertextual Exploration of hypertextA Project by Tara Martineau at Arizona State UniversityAdfero Afferohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09653378916912708463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10062506.post-32684772879471355972007-10-01T17:33:00.000+00:002007-10-02T09:43:09.206+00:00Towards a Consilient Study of LiteratureTowards a Consilient Study of LiteratureSteven Pinker discusses The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative, edited by Jonathan Gottschall and David Sloan Wilson, Northwestern University Press, 2005 in Philosophy and Literature, 2007, 31: 161–177Thanks to Garcila for mentioning this article in comments in my post Cutting Remarks.Adfero Afferohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09653378916912708463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10062506.post-67428120983185433812007-10-01T16:04:00.001+00:002007-10-13T11:21:48.148+00:00The Purpose of the NovelIt is possible to read a novel because you are impressed by the writing more than the story itself. Or: what drives you on is not the story, even if it has its interests, but the hope of some patches of good writing cunningly interspersed throughout the text like oases arrived at just in time for a life saving drink on a long desert journey.When I came across a quote from Nabokov which I put in aAdfero Afferohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09653378916912708463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10062506.post-35141939678199409002007-09-29T17:27:00.000+00:002007-09-29T17:39:45.729+00:00Bergman on BergmanYouTube has a 4-parter of Jorn Donner's 1998 interview with Ingmar Bergman. When Bergman died I became intrigued by Faro, as it was so important to him, and here, there are some glimpses which you can't really find elsewhere.It is not just head-to-head: there are biographical pieces, including family stills, and longish chunk of the 10 nerve-shattering thwacks scene in Fanny and Alexander. Adfero Afferohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09653378916912708463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10062506.post-4689676460572366452007-09-21T00:28:00.000+00:002007-09-21T00:42:02.744+00:00Ibsen - discovery or rediscovery?A Virtual Walk in the Spirit of Ibsen Came across this at Grow-a Brain Ibsen.net explainsAlso from the same source: The Infamous Proust QuestionnaireAdfero Afferohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09653378916912708463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10062506.post-17148020644567106312007-09-08T11:30:00.000+00:002022-11-27T12:45:14.391+00:00Cutting remarks
The poor rubbish man must wonder what is in the recycle bin. For several weeks it has weighed a ton, full to the top with news print and old mags: the latest cuttings cull goes on unabated. So many of them were put in lidded cardboard boxes unsorted, so are of limited value. The occasional scratching about in boxes to try to dump at least half the newsprint that has accumulated over the years Adfero Afferohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09653378916912708463noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10062506.post-54387976751041295092007-08-14T10:32:00.000+00:002007-08-14T11:10:43.048+00:00Nudge,nudge, film referentialityKeywords: Python, Antonioni, film, referential, self-referentialAdfero Afferohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09653378916912708463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10062506.post-27532738351527693692007-08-01T12:49:00.000+00:002007-08-02T16:12:04.293+00:00Michelangelo AntonioniL'Eclisse8 minutes of the end.Dan Schneider's 2006 review of Criterion DVD The PassengerWhere's the join? To achieve the physically staggering effect of the camera movement Antonioni had a special gyroscopic crane built, named after its Canadian inventor, Wesscom, and took 11 days to film the shot. {1}, {2}The cafe scene at 1.14 mins. Review of L'Avventura by Gary MorrisRick Lyman 31 July 2007, Adfero Afferohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09653378916912708463noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10062506.post-80769375819860193732007-07-30T16:21:00.000+00:002022-12-17T21:12:13.835+00:00Ingmar Bergman 14 July 1918 - 30 July 2007BergmanoramaThe slide show is the front page. The link to the site itself is below the frame of the pictures. That's the only way your going to stop the music! Some of the same movie clip interviews and trailers to be found on Youtube.Ingmar Bergman Face to FaceCompendious. Ingmar Bergman: The Swedish master who hides away on a small island, Geoffrey Macnab, Independent, 13 July 2007. Ingmar Adfero Afferohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09653378916912708463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10062506.post-26692888478750451002007-07-30T11:31:00.000+00:002007-07-30T13:40:05.251+00:00Ayn RandMagellan's Log:Best English Language Books of the 20th CenturyNot many readers can resist checking these out. But there is something strange here.You might vehemently disagree with:Modern Library Best 20 th. Century English Novelsthen just to compare you look at:Modern Library 100 Best 20 th. Century English Novels: Readers’ ChoicesWhat is going on here?1: The Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand 6:Adfero Afferohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09653378916912708463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10062506.post-1531988351391829712007-07-28T18:00:00.000+00:002007-07-28T18:08:40.625+00:00George Grosz's drawingsMagellan's Log (No never seen it before) lists and links to 28 of Grosz's drawings. There is a link to Ukrainian pianist Valentina Lisitsa who is also new to me.Adfero Afferohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09653378916912708463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10062506.post-58273562724769057372007-07-22T13:55:00.000+00:002007-07-22T14:39:03.928+00:00Reasons to cheerful Part 803 One one side of an A4 sheet (filed away):If Koestler was a rapacious man, this aspect of his character must be set against his art. The unsavory sexual nature set against genius.Attributed to a 'Raphael' (possibly Frederick, me rethinks).Conclusion: the necessity of writing down in a more scholarly fashion things one comes across. Was that what FR thought or my precis? Or a combination of the Adfero Afferohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09653378916912708463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10062506.post-82605269258969408022007-07-19T11:40:00.000+00:002007-07-19T11:48:10.664+00:00Books we have never readAdrian Tahourdin in TLS reviews Parlez des Livres que l'on n'a pas lu (“How to discuss books that one hasn’t read”). Take to heart the quote at the bottom:"in order to . . . talk without shame about books we haven’t read, we should rid ourselves of the oppressive image of a flawless cultural grounding, transmitted and imposed [on us] by the family and by educational institutions, an image which Adfero Afferohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09653378916912708463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10062506.post-59959909529989002522007-07-18T08:34:00.000+00:002007-07-18T08:47:04.125+00:00Cabinet MagazineHalf way through an article about mind control in Cabinet, had a sneaking suspicion this might be Borges world, with two artists going to the Madrid flat of Dr. Jose M.R. Delgado, which begins:The letter from Professor Delgado carries two insignias. One is made of Hebrew letters on what looks like a Torah scroll. Under the scroll it says "lux et veritas"—light and truth. The other insignia readsAdfero Afferohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09653378916912708463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10062506.post-671976941779252842007-07-17T17:45:00.000+00:002007-07-17T17:48:24.021+00:00Walter BenjaminWiki: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproductionsuggests Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit translates into:"The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility"Adfero Afferohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09653378916912708463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10062506.post-85863045434062525902007-07-04T12:27:00.000+00:002007-07-09T08:25:00.221+00:00Lawrence DurrellCharles Trueheart in American Scholar does a substantial Durrell - useful both for those who have read the Alexandria Quartet and those who haven't and might be thinking about it - under A Seductive Spectacle ( The languid bazaar of Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet still beckons 50 years later)On my bookshelves: Faber paperbacks of The Dark Laybrinth, Nunquam and Tunc, none of which I got Adfero Afferohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09653378916912708463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10062506.post-18099993220111024002007-06-30T08:51:00.000+00:002007-07-05T16:59:42.529+00:00Orson Welles: The One-Man BandWood's Lot mentions a new addition to UBUWEB :Orson Welles: The One-Man Band1995. 90 minutes. Adfero Afferohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09653378916912708463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10062506.post-21559790361746895722007-06-13T17:09:00.000+00:002007-06-13T17:10:41.593+00:00Writer's RoomsFrom the GuardianAdfero Afferohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09653378916912708463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10062506.post-15081982432197214132007-06-13T10:44:00.000+00:002007-07-05T16:58:39.051+00:00NabokovA few VN sites:(1)Nabokov with Prof. Elizabeth BeaujourDrawings of butterflies here(2)The Life and Works of Vladimir Nabokov (New York Library)Session 5 had some facsimile handwriting. E.g. Some notes on translation of Pnin(3)The Barcelona review Nabokov Quiz(4)Nabokov Under GlassMany facsimiles. This diagram from his lecture notes on Anna Karenina is intriguing.Adfero Afferohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09653378916912708463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10062506.post-12671058488896275212007-06-10T08:21:00.000+00:002007-06-13T16:39:09.601+00:00Chekhov's FistIt started as it can with something quite prosaic. The cat wanted to sit behind me on the chair. Cats on laps or tucked behind backs can make typing difficult. Offering her instead the top draw of my cuttings chest-of-drawers she settled, purring, but I noticed she was sitting on Chekhov. Lifting her off the famous playwright and short-story writer [201 stories by Anton Chekhov], I was mortified Adfero Afferohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09653378916912708463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10062506.post-46611940768074585902007-06-01T09:24:00.000+00:002007-06-01T09:27:44.111+00:00Novels and essaysThe democracy of Don Quixote by Jonathan Ree, Prospect, June 2007Adfero Afferohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09653378916912708463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10062506.post-78804429914952699662007-06-01T08:57:00.000+00:002007-06-01T09:29:10.783+00:00Why do some people resist science ?Again it's not my title. Even if you can't quite bring yourself to reading popular science books, at least read around the subject here:Why do some people resist science ? By Paul Bloom and Deena Skolnick WeisbergThe effort is worth it alone for the graph showing public acceptance of evolution (2005) in 34 countries. Adfero Afferohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09653378916912708463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10062506.post-69336662362155483502007-05-29T07:25:00.000+00:002007-05-29T07:27:34.097+00:00Viewing Moleskine ModalityIf you find the text in the posts too small, hold down the Control key and roll the mouse wheel towards you - hey presto! - the text gets biggerAdfero Afferohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09653378916912708463noreply@blogger.com0