The Illustrious House of Ramires , by Eça de Queirós. A novel about an ineffectual nobleman writing an historical novel about his heroic ancestors. Queirós has been called the Portuguese Flaubert. Large Fees and How to Get Them : a book for the private use of physicians , by Albert V. Harmon, M.D. If you practice early 20th medicine and want large fees, this book is essential reading. If you don’t, there are still lessons in its amusing and unsentimental discussion of various topics, like in the chapter “The Bugbear of Ethics”, where Harmon advises “ethics in its place is a good thing...But there is such a thing as overdoing the ethical proposition”. Histrionics: Three Plays and Over All the Mountain Tops , by Thomas Bernhard. Bernhard once said “I despise actors, indeed I hate them, for they ally themselves at the least sign of danger with the audience and betray the author and completely identify with stupidity and feeble-mindedness. Actors are the destroyers and extermin
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ReplyDelete"My musical interests are now devoted to my own participation in traditional folk song and learning to play a concertina" - Rik, 7 March 2008
Naturally.
That's a great skill to have in a depression. Get a donkey, ride from town to town playing your concertina...
ReplyDeleteI found that site looking for Jünger stuff and never bothered to examine it. I notice there is a review of 101 Dalmations in the Film section.