Re: FLUXLIST: Tristram Shandy

2000-09-28 Thread Heiko Recktenwald
shore begins at the end of my garden. Yes Bretany is great. Corse is nice too ;-) U populu corsu.. Is there some place in the US, which is called like Lands End (in Cornwall) or Finisterre ? To be honest, I have to confess that I'm not in the Finisterre, but in the very beginning of

Re: FLUXLIST: Tristram Shandy

2000-09-27 Thread Bertrand et Claudia CLAVEZ
- Message d'origine - De : Heiko Recktenwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : vendredi 15 septembre 2000 00:25 Objet : Re: FLUXLIST: Tristram Shandy Isnt this by Swift ? Who is much faster and much more readable IMHO. You're absolutely right...I'd better

Re: FLUXLIST: Tristram Shandy

2000-09-20 Thread ann klefstad
Heiko Recktenwald wrote: Its a great exemple how the sound of the village names can influence the feeling. Locmariaquer etc.. This is such a bizarre coincidence. I'm editing a book, a sort of memoir of an oysterman, which cites several times a work called "The Oysters of Locmariaquer".

Re: FLUXLIST: Tristram Shandy

2000-09-20 Thread Heiko Recktenwald
sources in the same week? Uncanny! Unheimlich! Woop! We can stand this ;-) Is there some place in the US, which is called like Lands End (in Cornwall) or Finisterre ? There are all kinds of great names in the US as elsewhere. Ball Club and Sleepy Eye are fine little Minnesota burgs,

Re: FLUXLIST: Tristram Shandy

2000-09-16 Thread Roger Stevens
badgergirlwrites Top 5 books (as of today 13 Sept. 2000) And yours, pray tell? Still thinking about it Have begun book by Pynchon (whom I haven't read before) - V -Roger

Re: FLUXLIST: Tristram Shandy

2000-09-15 Thread Heiko Recktenwald
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, meryl wrote: There's an area of Brooklyn, NY called Gravesend. Of course New Jersey is full of odd names like Nutley, Little Silver, and Leonia. Maybe ;-) In Bretany, the names arent just "strange", there are two or three keltish words, the quer in Locamariaquer etc,

Re: FLUXLIST: Tristram Shandy

2000-09-15 Thread mn
- Original Message - From: "meryl" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 3:11 AM Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Tristram Shandy There's an area of Brooklyn, NY called Gravesend. Of course New Jersey is full of odd names like Nutley, Lit

Re: FLUXLIST: Tristram Shandy

2000-09-15 Thread mn
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Re: FLUXLIST: Tristram Shandy

2000-09-14 Thread David Baptiste Chirot
yes, it was-- On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, meryl wrote: Wasn't "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift? BadgerGirl I might suggest also the lecture of "a Modest Proposal", an actual speech of Sterne at the Lord Chamber in which he denounces the starvation in Ireland by proposing

Re: FLUXLIST: Tristram Shandy

2000-09-14 Thread Bertrand et Claudia CLAVEZ
Sterne at the Lord Chamber in which he denounces the starvation in Ireland by proposing various way of cooking babies to fight the lack of food. Isnt this by Swift ? Who is much faster and much more readable IMHO. You're absolutely right...I'd better sleep more, it's good for memory

Re: FLUXLIST: Tristram Shandy

2000-09-14 Thread Heiko Recktenwald
Isnt this by Swift ? Who is much faster and much more readable IMHO. You're absolutely right...I'd better sleep more, it's good for memory (and take my books out of the boxes that remain) Btw, I have the first french translation of TS ;-) Or the second, somewhere in the boxes..

Re: FLUXLIST: Tristram Shandy

2000-09-14 Thread meryl
There's an area of Brooklyn, NY called Gravesend. Of course New Jersey is full of odd names like Nutley, Little Silver, and Leonia. -- From: Heiko Recktenwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Tristram Shandy Date: Thu, Sep 14, 2000, 6:25 PM Its a great

Re: FLUXLIST: Tristram Shandy

2000-09-13 Thread narvis ...pez
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Tristram Shandy Date: Mon, Sep 11, 2000, 10:02 AM I don't think I've ever met anyone who has read the whole thing through (bit like Finnegan's Wake) I don'¨t even know anyone who has actually read Ulysses. But one of my big plans for the fu

Re: FLUXLIST: Tristram Shandy

2000-09-13 Thread David Baptiste Chirot
the great great great English visual/sound poet/perfomer/publisher/essayist/historian Bob Cobbing in conversation said he thought the two greatest sound poetry texts of the 20th century are FINNEGAN'S WAKE and Jack Kerouac's

Re: FLUXLIST: Tristram Shandy

2000-09-13 Thread Bertrand et Claudia CLAVEZ
dont think of this list -which I liked a lot- as the Fluxlist anymore. Bertrand - Message d'origine - De : Roger Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : mercredi 13 septembre 2000 15:38 Objet : Re: FLUXLIST: Tristram Shandy Badgergirl writes Wait a minute now! I've read both

Re: FLUXLIST: Tristram Shandy

2000-09-13 Thread Heiko Recktenwald
Sterne at the Lord Chamber in which he denounces the starvation in Ireland by proposing various way of cooking babies to fight the lack of food. Isnt this by Swift ? Who is much faster and much more readable IMHO.

Re: FLUXLIST: Tristram Shandy

2000-09-13 Thread meryl
Wasn't "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift? BadgerGirl I might suggest also the lecture of "a Modest Proposal", an actual speech of Sterne at the Lord Chamber in which he denounces the starvation in Ireland by proposing various way of cooking babies to fight the lack of food.

Re: FLUXLIST: Tristram Shandy

2000-09-13 Thread ann klefstad
"narvis ...pez" wrote: i never forget the chapter of ulysses called circe's episode this is the best antinationalist text i've ever read At 08:51 pm -0400 12/9/00, meryl wrote: Wait a minute now! I've read both Finnegan's Wake and Ulysses. In fact I've read Ulysses several times,

Re: FLUXLIST: Tristram Shandy

2000-09-13 Thread ann klefstad
Bertrand et Claudia CLAVEZ wrote: I might suggest also the lecture of "a Modest Proposal", an actual speech of Sterne at the Lord Chamber in which he denounces the starvation in Ireland by proposing various way of cooking babies to fight the lack of food. That's actually not Sterne, that's

Re: FLUXLIST: Tristram Shandy

2000-09-12 Thread ann klefstad
A ps of sorts--after the post re that dear man Lawrence Sterne. Now, Thomas Bernhard bores me to tears. All that selfawareness. It's like aquiring a taste for your own teeth. AK Heiko Recktenwald wrote: Laurence Sterne.. On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Roger Stevens wrote: I read bits of this at

Re: FLUXLIST: Tristram Shandy

2000-09-12 Thread ann klefstad
What!! What? What?! Boring? Obviously badly translated -- mucho joy in the language is part of the Sterne experience. I've read it several times and never been bored. And also his travel journal thing, is lovely, an open-eyed person is never out of date. AK Heiko Recktenwald wrote: Laurence

Re: FLUXLIST: Tristram Shandy

2000-09-12 Thread David Baptiste Chirot
Many thanks to those who answered my query a bit back as to what book was being referred to have never read TRISTRAM SHANDY but know many regard it as one of mighty precursors of modernist/postmodenrist work in literature one of those books one intends

Re: FLUXLIST: Tristram Shandy

2000-09-12 Thread David Baptiste Chirot
personally i find what Heiko wrote very beautiful: "So slow. How he traveled. So much detail." though there's a good clue there: the slowness makes for the attention with "so much detail" just as conversely the speed of attention, which is

Re: FLUXLIST: Tristram Shandy

2000-09-12 Thread meryl
Kiss Kiss Badgergirl Devon: got your packet and am sorting through it. more concrete info soon. -- From: veljeni [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Tristram Shandy Date: Mon, Sep 11, 2000, 10:02 AM I don't think I've ever met anyone who has read the whole

FLUXLIST: Tristram Shandy

2000-09-11 Thread Roger Stevens
I read bits of this at school many, many, many years ago I don't think I've ever met anyone who has read the whole thing through (bit like Finnegan's Wake) but an influence to me no doubt and I'd recommend you search a copy out oh yes

Re: FLUXLIST: Tristram Shandy

2000-09-11 Thread Heiko Recktenwald
Laurence Sterne.. On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Roger Stevens wrote: I read bits of this at school many, many, many years ago I don't think I've ever met anyone who has read the whole thing through (bit like Finnegan's Wake) Hmmm...anyway, its extremly boring read today. So slow. How he

Re: FLUXLIST: Tristram Shandy

2000-09-11 Thread veljeni
I don't think I've ever met anyone who has read the whole thing through (bit like Finnegan's Wake) I don'¨t even know anyone who has actually read Ulysses. But one of my big plans for the future is to translate Finnegan's Wake into Finnish. I already bought Webster's huge dictionary. I

Re: FLUXLIST: Tristram Shandy

2000-09-11 Thread Patricia
Installed a gallery show that Baldesarri did in the late 80's based on this work http://www.arionpress.com/catalog/026.htm Lotsa dots PK Heiko Recktenwald wrote: Laurence Sterne.. On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Roger Stevens wrote: I read bits of this at school many, many, many years ago