Joined: 8 Feb 2010 Gender: Male Posts: 457 Location: CT
17 Mar 2010, 9:38 pm
Chesterton, Emerson, pretty much anything that isn't fiction, technical manuals, scientific/medical papers, anything at all that has something to do with human memory.
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Joined: 20 Feb 2010 Age: 37 Gender: Female Posts: 2,287 Location: Freie Stadt Danzig
26 Mar 2010, 4:06 pm
Anyone knows books of this man? [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Günter_Grass]LINK[/url]
I like his books and him, not only because he's also from FSD.
Joined: 8 Mar 2010 Age: 54 Gender: Female Posts: 49 Location: EurOPE
26 Mar 2010, 4:46 pm
Yeah, I was on a lecture with him last year.
Very interesting person and very vivid in lecturing. He also discussed afterwards and answered questions and gave autographs. I had to read tin drum in school and I hated it (can't remember why, though probably cos it was homework; I hated any kind homework, took way too much time from my interests)
But the ideas are very precise and reflective and the graphics are just fabulous! He presentet and recited one of his newer poem-books with watercolours and it all was really great. Loads of fun, as well.
Have some of his books at home, haven't read anything yet though (ie other than random)
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Joined: 20 Feb 2010 Age: 37 Gender: Female Posts: 2,287 Location: Freie Stadt Danzig
26 Mar 2010, 5:01 pm
I really regret my Grands are dead I could ask them if it was really like in the books? How about life in that FSD? Did they know Grass personally?
And more more more. Maybe it sounds stupid, but Grass's books are for me also kind of old time stories.
Joined: 8 Mar 2010 Age: 54 Gender: Female Posts: 49 Location: EurOPE
26 Mar 2010, 5:22 pm
Know what you mean. Do you know the poems of Agnes Miegel? Or the memories of Marion Donhoff?
Don't think they knew each other, it's a big town after all...
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Joined: 20 Feb 2010 Age: 37 Gender: Female Posts: 2,287 Location: Freie Stadt Danzig
27 Mar 2010, 5:17 pm
Horrible! That's one more reason why I'd like to come back in time: to see how my family lived and how did original Danzig look.
I'm interested in question of assimilation when Danzig became full-Polish. Grass doesn't know, because he didn't come back. I'm interested in this all not so long, maybe I'll find stories about it.
And now I know where are you from. I suspected it's not so far away!