Postlogue: "Seabiscuit" Enjoyable. A funny, informative and fulfilling - well!, if one enjoys racing! - story. True.
List of what have been _discoveries_ for me. By each of these I've been changed. When sharing one or several/with another person, this would be then to have something in common. Or, at least: a door opened, with aesthetic orientation(s)
Miles Davis' "On the Corner" and "Kinda of Blue."
Geoffrey Hartman, theorist, omitted:othr site.
Ursula Leguin,
Robert Silverberg. !!!!!!!!
Theodore Sturgeon, espec. "Slow Sculpture," story. Of course "Baby Makes Three," the paranormals-gestalt, available I think just in the book length, "More Than Human" is genuine literature :)
"Ascension." 40 min.
Arthur Honegger, knowing in particular the "Pacific 231."
Peretz
Scholem Aleichem (originally heard [of] in Leonard Nimoy's NPR readings [1990's].)
Isaac Bashevis Singer
William Faulkner
2d-ary:
"The Foundation Trilogy"
"Fiddler on the Roof" and "Slaughter House Five" (films)
"Player Piano," with the Reeks and Wrecks, the CEO renegade and the scholar
"Farenheit 451"
"Brothers Karamezov" and "Dream of a Ridiculous Man"
Gooseberries", by Chekhov. Especially the lines about character of the materialist brother
Albert Camus, secondary sources..., "The Fall" I would cop to, as readable. "La Peste" /"Plague" IMHO suffers in translation.
Tertiary
Gerald Heard
James Hilman
"City and the Stars" (so moving when I originally read it). And "Childhood's End" -- the generation to cap off all generations.
"The Street Lawyer," "The Client."
The easily-FUNNY Kafka. In "The Castle," once the protagonist has wormed his way to a warm place ([no?] room at the inn) and the platoon-leader policeman is ringing up the Castle to verify the surveyor story, our man is lying on the straw RIGHT BELOW THAT WALL TELEPHONE. Ha! :) So policeman must lean and reach-way-out to [get] that phone. LOL No one designed it, but dude on the floor is winning. How absurd-looking is that authority :) :)
Erik Satie, French Impressionist composer. In mutual influence with Debussy
Next to _Seabiscuit_, a fun and insightful book. And yes a better book.
ReplyDelete"The Hidden Life of Dogs."
It is by a woman married to a professor -- with extra time/when something deserves it. She has credentials in anthropology herself :) The book in several ways opened my eyes. In a fun way opened my eyes.
Author is a significant character in the book's happenings, but central is a *very* smart four-pawed one.