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Exploits of the 'Monuments Men' (and women!) of WWII
Dunzy
11 yrs ago
“Rescuing Da Vinci”, by Robert Edsel, traces huge efforts to find and repatriate the trainloads of art objects that were looted by the Nazis. It focuses on the work of art historians, restorers, and curators recruited by…
Dunzy
11 yrs ago
...he would be with Willy before the day was out."
(High hopes of Mr. Bones, a stoic dog in Paul Auster's "Timbuktu".)
Dunzy
11 yrs ago
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…”The Colour of Saying”, an anthology of writings that Dylan Thomas chose for performance: http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/3508022/ .
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Let's pay homage to maps, charts, atlases, and all geographical publications! Share your geograpical geekiness!
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RE: maps that show me where the boundaries were
Dunzy
12 yrs ago
I miss the golden days of bookdom when flashy atlases/histories sported overlays to show how political boundaries changed through time. This technique burned the rise and fall of (e.g.) the Holy Roman Empire into my brai…
Dunzy
12 yrs ago
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The big guy keeps surfacing :) There is another sighting of Melville’s opus (this time as murky manuscript) in “The Club Dumas”, a novel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte about a literary detective.
Dunzy
12 yrs ago
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You remind me of the Dickensian disaster that overtook the principal character in Evelyn Waugh's "A Handful of Dust" {**SEMI-SPOILER**}. Reading all of CD's novels to his captor would indeed mean 'Hard Times'.
Dunzy
12 yrs ago
They always looked surreally stoic, unlike the pooches that Coolidge immortalized: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogs_Playing_Poker .
Dunzy
12 yrs ago
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Does "Great Expectations" get a mention (as a book) in "Mr. Pip"?
Not having read Mr. P., I'm prepared to be surprised by the answer :)
ETA: Now that I've seen your link, Kneesies, I'm appropriately surprised...ab…
Dunzy
12 yrs ago
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Please to excuse my runaway mistyping :(
Dunzy
12 yrs ago
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Does "Great Expectations" get a mention in the text? Seems unlikely...
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The April First Sentence Thread
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"Mr. Bones knew that Willy wasn't long for this world."
Dunzy
12 yrs ago
From Paul Auster's "Timbuktu", an unexpectedly brisk and captivating tale about a canine quest.
Dunzy
12 yrs ago
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I assume you’re after mentions of *real* books, as imaginary books abound. (For a dazzling selection, see the Imaginary Library’s list @ http://invislib.blogspot.ca/ .) Here’s a recent one about a real book…
In Lisa…
Dunzy
12 yrs ago
Ernst Doblhofer's classic work is subtitled ‘The Decipherment of Ancient Scripts and Writings’, which is precisely what it is about: http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5206144/ . Code-cracking abounds.
Dunzy
12 yrs ago
…some age-related quotes rack up new significance on the second reading. I hadn’t seen this one for 25 years (in John Updike’s memoir, ‘Self-Consciousness’) but it just surged back into conscious memory:
"Looking fool…
Dunzy
12 yrs ago
"I've seen [...] attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."
I've spent years with th…
Dunzy
12 yrs ago
Any notion why the BBQ? The indefatigable (and euphoniously named) Susannah Clapp doesn't mention this incident in her memoir, as I recall: http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7169573/ .
Dunzy
12 yrs ago
YAs make a pretty shaky sample-group for the moment. In a decade or so, we may see collective renewal of their ability to be selective :)
Even in the current transitional times, though, I wouldn't classify at least fo…
Dunzy
12 yrs ago
You have perked up this thread something fierce :)
Dunzy
12 yrs ago
There were religious reasons behind the destruction, as there were for Manley Hopkins [see first post]; in Gogol's case they were lethal.
In a review extolling "Dead Souls", A.S. Byatt wrote that its author became "co…
Dunzy
12 yrs ago
Knopf's 2011 crop included this stunner by Franz Wright:
ROOMS
Rooms I (I will not say
worked in) once heard in. Words
my mouth heard
then—be
with me. Rooms,
you open onto one
another: still house
this life…
Dunzy
12 yrs ago
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I opened “The Trials of Rumpole” and stap my vitals if the wheezy old darling didn’t ensnare me anew, straight off:
“As I take up my pen during a brief and unfortunate lull in Crime
(taking their cue from the car-wor…
Dunzy
12 yrs ago
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Knopf sallies into another spring with a poem-a-day series. This year's bright beginning is Jack Gilbert's 'Searching for Pittsburgh': http://poem-a-day.knopfdoubleday.com/ ..
Dunzy
12 yrs ago
...by Alicia Gimenez-Bartlett: http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/8438392/ . This is a funny *hardboiled* mystery -- a rare breed.
Dunzy
12 yrs ago
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As a native speaker, I recognized that "any soul" would relate to music; otherwise, any competent (and non-jocular) writer would have written 'a soul' or (e.g.) 'any soul at all'.
In a Chesterton short story, btw, a j…
Dunzy
12 yrs ago
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Defined as 'silent movement of the lips in simulation of audible speech'.
""I never thought to see you again,' he mussitated." (From 'The Devil's Tale', by Dan Wick.)
