Saturday, September 06, 2003
kind comments on part one of my booklist from languagehat, who I may have persuaded to read Anthony Powell...
Thursday, September 04, 2003
Dissent Magazine - Spring 2003: "Imagine a building in which political philosophers are debating, in the wake of the attacks of September 11, 2001, the value and the purpose of participatory parity over against forms of authoritarianism or theocracy. Now imagine that this building has no access ramps, no Braille or large-print publications, no American Sign Language interpreters, no elevators, no special-needs paraprofessionals, no in-class aides. Contradictory as such a state of affairs may sound, it's a reasonably accurate picture of what contemporary debate over the meaning of democracy actually looks like. How can we remedy this? Only when we have fostered equal participation in debates over the ends and means of democracy can we have a truly participatory debate over what 'participatory parity' itself means. "
Wednesday, September 03, 2003
Orwell Intentioned. by Michael Tomasky. September 3, 2003.: "I admire Orwell a great deal myself. But I always wondered, why him and not, say, Albert Camus? "
75 of maybe 150 "Essential Texts" in No Particular Order and not including reference books
1. Life of Johnson--James Boswell
2. Last Lunar Badeker--Mina Loy
3. So Going Around Cities--Ted Berrigan
4. Curiosities of Literature--Isaac D'Israeli
5. Pandemonium--Humphrey Jennings
6. Collected Novels--Jean Rhys
7. Tristram Shandy--Laurence Sterne
8. Collected Poems--Hugh MacDiarmid
9. Ambit--Gerald Creede
10. Planetary Gear--Ted Pearson
11. You--George Stanley
12. The Relative Minor--Deanna Ferguson
13. Europe of Trusts--Susan Howe
14. Words--Robert Creeley
15. Journals--Gilbert White
16. Swedish Letters--Mary Wollstencraft
17. Midsummer Cushion--John Clare
18. Art Criticism--Denis Diderot
19. Lost Illusions--Honore de Balzac
20. The Cloister and the Hearth--Charles Reade
21. Polyverse--Lee Ann Brown
22. The Power Broker--Robert Caro
23. The Glenn Gould Reader
24. Charlotte Bronte--Villette
25. The Fire Next Time--James Baldwin
26. Notebooks and Marginalia--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
27. Tight Corners (and what's around them)--David Bromige
28. From Next Spring--Gerry Gilbert
29. Don Juan--Lord Byron
30. Collected Nonsense--Edward Lear
31. Moominland Midwinter--Tove Jansson
32. Fovea Centralis--Christopher Dewdney
33. The Dumbfounding--Margaret Avison
34. Travels in Arabia Derserta--Charles Doughty
35. Memoirs--Thomas Bewick
36. The Seasons--James Thompson
37. The Task--William Cowper
38. A Dance to the Music of Time--Anthony Powell
39. Autobiographies--Janet Frame
40. Reveries of a Solitary Walker--Jean-Jacques Rousseau
41. Stages on Life's Way--Soren Kierkegaard
42. Book of Magazine Verse--Jack Spicer
43. Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire--Edward Gibbon
44. Street of Crocodiles--Bruno Schulz
45. Collected Poems--Basil Bunting
46. The Mediterranean--Fernand Braudel
47. The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity--Aby Warburg
48. The Journal of a Disappointed Man--WNP Barbellion
49. Martyrology Book 2--bp Nichol
50. Midwinter Day--Bernadette Mayer
51. Collected Short Novels--Collette
52. Own Face--Clark Coolidge
53. Testimony--Charles Reznikoff
54. Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror--John Ashbery
56. Anatomy of Melancholy--Robert Burton
57. Journals--Dorothy Wordsworth
58. Voyage of the 'Beagle'--Charles Darwin
59. The Fur Trade in Canada--Harold Adams Innis
60. Archaeologist of Morning--Charles Olson
61. The Kalevela--comp. Elias Lonrot
62. Collected Poems--Lorine Niedecker
63. Memoirs--Hector Berlioz
64. Marcel Duchamp--Octavio Paz
65. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym--Edgar Allen Poe
66. Diaries--Cosima Wagner
67. Essays--Arthur Schopenhauer
68. Harvest of the Cold Months--Elizabeth David
69. A Place of Greater Safety--Hilary Mantel
70. The Wind in the Willows--Kenneth Grahame
71. Imaginations--William Carlos Williams
72. Harmonium--Wallace Stevens
73. Hymns and Fragments--Friedrich Holderlin (Sieburth trans.)
74. The Wanderer--Alain-Fournier
75. Up in the Old Hotel--Joseph Mitchell
1. Life of Johnson--James Boswell
2. Last Lunar Badeker--Mina Loy
3. So Going Around Cities--Ted Berrigan
4. Curiosities of Literature--Isaac D'Israeli
5. Pandemonium--Humphrey Jennings
6. Collected Novels--Jean Rhys
7. Tristram Shandy--Laurence Sterne
8. Collected Poems--Hugh MacDiarmid
9. Ambit--Gerald Creede
10. Planetary Gear--Ted Pearson
11. You--George Stanley
12. The Relative Minor--Deanna Ferguson
13. Europe of Trusts--Susan Howe
14. Words--Robert Creeley
15. Journals--Gilbert White
16. Swedish Letters--Mary Wollstencraft
17. Midsummer Cushion--John Clare
18. Art Criticism--Denis Diderot
19. Lost Illusions--Honore de Balzac
20. The Cloister and the Hearth--Charles Reade
21. Polyverse--Lee Ann Brown
22. The Power Broker--Robert Caro
23. The Glenn Gould Reader
24. Charlotte Bronte--Villette
25. The Fire Next Time--James Baldwin
26. Notebooks and Marginalia--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
27. Tight Corners (and what's around them)--David Bromige
28. From Next Spring--Gerry Gilbert
29. Don Juan--Lord Byron
30. Collected Nonsense--Edward Lear
31. Moominland Midwinter--Tove Jansson
32. Fovea Centralis--Christopher Dewdney
33. The Dumbfounding--Margaret Avison
34. Travels in Arabia Derserta--Charles Doughty
35. Memoirs--Thomas Bewick
36. The Seasons--James Thompson
37. The Task--William Cowper
38. A Dance to the Music of Time--Anthony Powell
39. Autobiographies--Janet Frame
40. Reveries of a Solitary Walker--Jean-Jacques Rousseau
41. Stages on Life's Way--Soren Kierkegaard
42. Book of Magazine Verse--Jack Spicer
43. Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire--Edward Gibbon
44. Street of Crocodiles--Bruno Schulz
45. Collected Poems--Basil Bunting
46. The Mediterranean--Fernand Braudel
47. The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity--Aby Warburg
48. The Journal of a Disappointed Man--WNP Barbellion
49. Martyrology Book 2--bp Nichol
50. Midwinter Day--Bernadette Mayer
51. Collected Short Novels--Collette
52. Own Face--Clark Coolidge
53. Testimony--Charles Reznikoff
54. Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror--John Ashbery
56. Anatomy of Melancholy--Robert Burton
57. Journals--Dorothy Wordsworth
58. Voyage of the 'Beagle'--Charles Darwin
59. The Fur Trade in Canada--Harold Adams Innis
60. Archaeologist of Morning--Charles Olson
61. The Kalevela--comp. Elias Lonrot
62. Collected Poems--Lorine Niedecker
63. Memoirs--Hector Berlioz
64. Marcel Duchamp--Octavio Paz
65. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym--Edgar Allen Poe
66. Diaries--Cosima Wagner
67. Essays--Arthur Schopenhauer
68. Harvest of the Cold Months--Elizabeth David
69. A Place of Greater Safety--Hilary Mantel
70. The Wind in the Willows--Kenneth Grahame
71. Imaginations--William Carlos Williams
72. Harmonium--Wallace Stevens
73. Hymns and Fragments--Friedrich Holderlin (Sieburth trans.)
74. The Wanderer--Alain-Fournier
75. Up in the Old Hotel--Joseph Mitchell
Equanimity - if not a poetics, then what?: "The new bright traffic and walk lights: they make First Avenue look like an office hallway in a British detective serial. Whereas they give Gates and St James in Brooklyn the Hollywood wet-street effect."
Monday, September 01, 2003
Overlap: Drew Gardner's Blog: "What caught my attention in this group, though, was Milt Jackson. The tone of the vibraphone just shoots through the room. The speakers can't hold it back. I immediatly stopped what I was doing and listened. It was like some metallic fluid spilling over the speakers, carrying waves of information about life. "
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