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Erstwhile Flâneur, Philosopher

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  • Fearful February 2025: Reading, Viewing
  • Enervating Enero 2025, Reading and Writing
  • Hope or Memory in the Irony of the Romantic Disillusionment: Lukác’s “Theory of the Novel”
  • Dissonant December 2024: Reading, Viewing
  • Notorious November 2024: Reading, Viewing

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Fearful February 2025: Reading, Viewing

Triumphs: “The Red Shoes” and “Picnic at Hanging Rock”! Flaubert’s “Sentimental Education”!

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  • 2025-03-12
  • Monthly Reading, Viewing Report

Enervating Enero 2025, Reading and Writing

All of the books and films don’t amount to much when political terror begins.

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  • 2025-02-07
  • Monthly Reading, Viewing Report

Hope or Memory in the Irony of the Romantic Disillusionment: Lukác’s “Theory of the Novel”

The episodes of the romantic novel are sundered, one from the other, but “irradiated” by hope and memory.

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  • 2025-02-01
  • On Literature, Books Reading Journal

Dissonant December 2024: Reading, Viewing

Greatest Hits: “Carefree”, “Geology Bites” on sedimentary bias, “The Cheese and the Worms” (very sexy stuff)

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  • 2025-01-08
  • Monthly Reading, Viewing Report

Notorious November 2024: Reading, Viewing

Greatest hits of November 2024: “Brewster’s Millions”, “Silas Marner”, “Earth Time.” Worst moments: “Over the Top”? “Short Circuit”?

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  • 2024-12-06
  • Monthly Reading, Viewing Report

October 2024: Reading, Viewing?

October is a good enough reason to watch scary movies. Like the vice presidential debate … or the movie “Terrifier,” “Cannibal Holocaust,” or even “Audition.”

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  • 2024-11-03
  • Monthly Reading, Viewing Report

The Kremlin Ball, by Curzio Malaparte

“The Kremlin Ball” narrates time Malaparte spent in Moscow during the late 1920s and the intellectuals and Soviet elite he met there.

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  • 2024-10-11
  • On Literature, Books Reading Journal

Sep. 2024 Reading, Viewing: Curzio Malaparte, Under The Skin

Greatest hits of September undoubtedly include Curzio Malaparte’s unfinished novel “The Kremlin Ball”; they do NOT include watching “Jaws 2” or “Jaws 3D.”

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  • 2024-10-02
  • Monthly Reading, Viewing Report

August August 2024: Reading, Viewing

Kept reading The Overstory” and should have finished it. Started “Homicide: Life on the Street” (1993-99), which has been a good thing. And “The Secret History of Science Fiction”

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  • 2024-09-05
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Orlando Museum of Art: 10 Aug 2024

Going to a museum has always been an experience like going to church. Same reverence, quietude required. Except that at a museum I know what I’m contemplating.

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  • 2024-08-13
  • Idle Reflections

July 2024: Reading, Watching

Greatest hits: the Netflix Ripley series, “Blood and Wine” with Jack Nicholson, “Geology: A Very Short Introduction.”
Lowest lows: “The Flash.” What facile bollocks.

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  • 2024-08-02
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June 2024 Reading, Viewing

Greatest Hits: Everett’s “Erasure,” Zweig’s “Mary, Queen of Scots,” “Code Inconnu.” Lowest Lows: “S.W.A.T.” (2003). Ouch.

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  • 2024-07-06
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May 2024 Reading and Viewing

During May I consumed so much Stefan Zweig, Nikolai Gogol, but also “Crime Wave” and “The Insider” and even “La Haine”

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  • 2024-06-03
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The Limey (1999): Mise-en-Scène and Glib Dialogue

“The Limey” is essentially a father-daughter story of a very strange sort, in at least two discrete dimensions. Masterful in mise-en-scène; a dilettante in dialogue.

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  • 2024-05-25
  • Idle Reflections

Mary Stuart. The Maid of Orleans. Two Historical Plays By Schiller

Not so recently acquired: Friedrich Schiller’s Mary Stuart and The Maid of Orleans. Two Historical Plays in One Volume!

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  • 2024-05-21
  • On Literature, Books New Acquisitions
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