I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
W. Somerset Maugham
Ralph Waldo Emerson - "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
Thursday, September 11, 2014
Thursday, September 4, 2014
Joseph Heller's Closing Time
Re-reading from Chapter 18, Dante.
Dante's Inferno (the game gave me quite a bit of information)
The Magic Mountain
Schweik
Kafka - done
Joseph K
Faulkner
Ulysses- tried; Latin got in the way.
30 Rock - seen some; it's good.
Gustav Aschenbach - Death in Venice - Mann
The ubiquitous Indian restaurant
Saroyan
Camus - lots to go.
Bible, Freud - usual suspects
King Lear
Chapter 19
Loads of f
Chapter 20
The chaplain's plight, brilliantly described, and I opine that Mr Heller was a very verbose writer, with an almost stream-of-consciousness style, and had a very expansive vocabulary.
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