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Mr.Robot
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24 Jun 2018, 7:45 pm

Sianann wrote:
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This...quote ....8O


I know! If it was an artwork it would be the lovechild of Bridget Riley and Fiona Banner.



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I have to love this comment!


Yay, that's so feel good!


You're now my favorite Irish person :mrgreen:

My wife and I are visual artists ourselves, so we are excited whenever someone's knowledge goes beyond what is considered classical...


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25 Jun 2018, 5:30 am

Mr.Robot wrote:
Sianann wrote:
Mr.Robot wrote:
Sianann wrote:
Mr.Robot wrote:
This...quote ....8O


I know! If it was an artwork it would be the lovechild of Bridget Riley and Fiona Banner.



:heart:
I have to love this comment!


Yay, that's so feel good!


You're now my favorite Irish person :mrgreen:

My wife and I are visual artists ourselves, so we are excited whenever someone's knowledge goes beyond what is considered classical...


O, lol. What a lovely message to greet me this morning...and it’s sunny here too. Happy days!

Yes, I have a deep love of art and I am currently trying to set up contemporary art talks in the town library to spread the love of the - as you say - ‘beyond classical’ world of art. I can feel an avalanche of words now about what I’m thinking of doing so I had better stop. Right now. :D


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25 Jun 2018, 8:25 am

"Avalanche of words" is always good.

If only.......I could have an "avalanche" without feeling like I could potentially become like Sisyphus :wink:

You really sound like a person who is into transcendence and efflorescence.



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26 Jun 2018, 6:57 am

kraftiekortie wrote:
"Avalanche of words" is always good.

If only.......I could have an "avalanche" without feeling like I could potentially become like Sisyphus :wink:

You really sound like a person who is into transcendence and efflorescence.


Well, picture yourself already at the top of your mountain and causing the avalanche of words from there. No need to climb back up! However, it’s other people that might feel overwhelmed...lol. Hence, I know (I hope) when to stop.

Have you read Camus? I’m not mad into the existentialists - I’m more interested in their lives than their philosophies really. I tried reading Sartre’s ‘Nausea’...oooh, I was less than impressed. I was enraged actually (I’m a bit more earth-bound than transcendent, alas). My impression was that it was a book based on how to be self-loathing. Then again, I never finished it. I’m probably waaaay off the mark. But I do have a thing for Kierkegaard! Which reminds me...must finish Fear and Trembling...so many books...so little headspace...


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26 Jun 2018, 9:36 pm

The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende.


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05 Jul 2018, 2:45 pm

"Front desk" novel. Teen

Ten year old Mia Tang came from China two years a priority. Her parents work in a motel.



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05 Jul 2018, 6:59 pm

The Legacy

By Lynda La Plant

Others recently read, consisted of Bloodline and Backlash, which I purchased from Amazon.



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05 Jul 2018, 7:50 pm

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The Legacy

By Lynda La Plant

Others recently read, consisted of Bloodline and Backlash, which I purchased from Amazon.


I remember as a little kid, the TV previews scared me. How was it?


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06 Jul 2018, 3:09 am

The Tattooist of Auschwitz
My Life in a Cult
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07 Jul 2018, 5:18 pm

doctors of conscience: the struggle to provide abortion before and after roe v. wade by carole joffe. chapter 4 is especially telling.



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08 Jul 2018, 2:10 pm

Emily's Journal by Sarah Fermi (Cambridge, 2006)

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Compelling and renowned biographical fiction about Emily's inspiration for Wuthering Heights, beyond the Robert Heaton / Ponden Hall connection.



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08 Jul 2018, 3:26 pm

I am sitting here with Terry Pratchetts Guards! Guards! Have just started reading it.



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18 Jul 2018, 11:06 am

Emily Brontë Reappraised, Claire O'Callaghan (Salford, 2018).

The editing is very poor in this book :(

So far, I'm nonplussed.



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19 Jul 2018, 3:59 pm

Finishing The Magus by John Fowles.



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19 Jul 2018, 9:40 pm

Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
3rd time
Every time I read it, it's a different book. Is it reflecting my own changes? Is this book a mirror, on top of everything else?

Same with Moby Dick. But this time I want the "illustrated classic" or whatever the correct term is.



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20 Jul 2018, 7:45 am

Choke

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24 year old medical school dropout purposely goes to restaurants and chokes on food and someone rescues him. The heroes sometimes send him cash

He also works at a medieval amusement park

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