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 exte...
Sorry to go off subject, but My Dear Sir, I was wondering whether you had heard the news about killer giant hornets in China? e.g. http://www.isegoria.net/2013/09/giant-hornet-attacks/
ReplyDeleteThere's a terrific NatGeo (I think) show about those which films them invading a honeybee hive.
DeleteI would love to see a documentary on what happens when a hornet attempts to invade a Japanese honey bee hive. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_giant_hornet
DeleteHere's a clip from it.
DeleteA fun question for environmentalists: if those things were endangered should steps be taken to preserve them?
DeleteIn Lilo and Stitch, Earth was designated as a wildlife sanctuary to protect the mosquito. The aliens who came to Earth were excited to be bitten by them.
DeleteAnyway, amazing how even Russia doesn't have enough alpha males for their women. No, that's not the problem, the problem is that women are ever trusted, at all, for any reason. They are born traitors.
It shouldn't be surprising a lady powerlifter took an impulse too far.
DeleteWill you compose the rock opera based on this story or shall I? From the article it appears the show-stopping aria has already been written by the heroine herself.
ReplyDeleteGreat idea. You do the music, I will come up with some lyrics that ryhme with Ustiuzhaninova.
DeleteI find it curious the Siberian Amazon wrote her message in English.
DeleteEveryone communicates in English now. It's the universal language of "Put Me On Television."
DeleteStealing a two hour slab of Schoenberg performed on an oud will work for the music.