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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
Sounds like "The Phantom Tollbooth."
ReplyDeleteI note you have not posted in quite some time, unlike The Ambler, who gave conservative folk a good one in the old yarbles right after the election, and who has continued to be unsusually prolific. Perhaps he feels invigorated by the ascension of The One to the presidency. Personally, I'm petrified.
ReplyDeleteI've been working on my novel, Sandsend Blob! A romance.
ReplyDeleteWell that explains it. At least your time has been well spent. All I've done is sulk in the corner.
ReplyDeleteMay I take the liberty of suggesting another title? How about "Springtime for Whitby, or, The Sandsend Blob : a Romance"
ReplyDeleteOf course, I meant to refer to The American Fez, and not The Ambler, who has been stuck on the same thought for over two months now.
ReplyDeleteGiven the poularity of comic book and horror movies lately, you might wish to seize the day and write a screenplay of your Sandsend Blob project for sale to Dreamworks. If it is not too early, I would like to be among the first to recommend Bo Swenson for the role of the Blob.
Spring in Whitby is foamy and occult, MCB.
ReplyDeleteAnon: There's big money to be had writing about Draculas. Sandsend Blobs, not so much.