Tuesday, January 21, 2025

There is too much writing and not enough reading

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  "Er wordt teveel geschreven en te weinig gelezen". Frits van Oostrom in an interview with Garrelt Verhoeven in Online Boekensalo...
Sunday, December 31, 2023

If Not, Winter - Fragments of Sappho translated by Anne Carson, Folio Society edition

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  I’m very pleased with my purchase of this beautiful edition. The letterpress printing and cream-colored paper are simply exquisite—Homer h...
Thursday, December 29, 2022

Reading Oscars 2022

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All along the year 2022, I crawled slowly further over the lines of Dante Alighieri's Commedia . O ne canto each evening before bedtim...
Monday, June 6, 2022

Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine

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The loss of irreplaceable books has recently been on my mind.  While visiting the fair for Artbooks in Ghent, I was attracted by a stand wit...
Sunday, June 5, 2022

"The Poetics" by Aristotle

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"How to tell a Story, An ancient Guide to the Art of Storytelling for Writers and Readers" is nothing less than Aristotle's cl...
Thursday, May 26, 2022

The Twilight World by Werner Herzog

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It is not really surprising that one grows trust - issues after fighting 5 years of intense war. So when Hiroo Onada, a Japanese officer o...
Monday, January 31, 2022

Kramberger with Monkey by Rick Harsch

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  picture by Natasha Juhnov There was such a man. Three decades ago, there was, in far-away Slovenia, a self-made businessman with preside...