'Swann's Way' doesn't necessarily suggest the 'higher road to wisdom.' It can also mean the way that Swan took (the wrong way) or the road near Swann's place. 'The Way by Swann's' is certainly clunky and almost unintelligible and Proust surely would have hated it. The translation by Lydia Davis is truly awful, having extracted all the euphonious poetry from the original text, so let's stop kidding ourselves about that. Certainly 'Remembrance of Things Past' is wrong.
god, it's profoundly difficult to hear someone like adam phillips talk about covid as if it's over. it is still a mass disabling event, people are still dying at alarming rates, & the data on the harms of unmitigated transmission & reinfections is coming fast & hard.
Belated Condolences on passing of Robert Fisk aged only 74 four years ago in 2020 Neither Wiki nor Irish TV Announcement give cause of death at only 74 in Dublin Alain Delon recent passing at 88 last month and my own mother is 96 You paid a very moving tribute that brought tears to my eyes
I'm starting a Master in Material and Visual Culture at UCL London and How Forests Think is the first awakening surprise book I read! Congrats to you both, such a great conversation about the book.
Salinger is a classic case of a narcissist and Maynard was his narcissitic supply and emotional co-dependant. He did all the classic narc moves, like love-bombing Maynard in the beginning, mirroring her to make her think they were two sides of the same coin, isolating her from her friends and family, building her up and then tearing her down in order to cause a trauma bond between them, the way he took up free real estate in her mind for decades, and then the final discard. Whatta guy.
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No, there is plenty of evidence that Shakespeare was a vital and active member of The Lord Chamberlain’s Men and, later, The King’s Men. I wish pointless presentations like this didn’t pop up in my Shakespeare searches.
sounds like you need them. theres no evidence the man from stratford, will SHAKSPER, the illiterate glovers son, wrote anything at all. he is by far the worst candidate of all the candidates.
There may well be evidence that he was an active member of these companies ( as were many, many others). However, there is almost no evidence that he, his parents or children could write, let alone pen arguably the greatest body of work in English literature. If you bothered to read this book you may recognise yourself in it.
There were numerous 'vital and active members of The Lord Chamberlain's Men' who were not playwrights. Will Shaksper's role in the company, by the evidence, is a financial one. I.e., what Broadway calls 'an angel' and Hollywood calls 'a money guy.'
its quite funny to plot the arc of Sciolino's abrasive attempts at camaraderie by making all these sarcastic jokes which fall flat and watch Schiff get more and more annoyed and curt with each one
Quite useless and poor use of our attention resources...unless you came after reading the boom it makes little sense and the title and description is terribly misleading
Fantastic! I was also a part of a Society of the Birds in my own right and we were and are indeed a little skittish when you stare at us directly. I'm off to grab as many copies of this as I can afford to distribute to the group. Our current concerns are that of survival in the barest sense as we are all atomized by Capital. I was delighted by the fracking analogy put forth here. It is exactly what has been on our collective minds. We are also wrestling on how to maneuver in what might become a post labor economy into the attention economy without contributing to the Attention problem ourselves. This book should be an excellent meditation. Cheers!
Ah, this is wonderful. Thank you both. Great Q&A at the end too. I could listen to Patricia forever. (Which incidentally reminds me to subscribe to the LRB!)
Having been interested in Saint Domingue and Haiti for several years, I just recenltly read Jeremy Popkin's book that collects several eye-witness accounts of what happened during the slave insurrection in France's wealthiest colony Saint Domingue (now called the Haitian Revolution). I listened to another presentation and what was very interesting was the content that Mr. Popkin shared, but also in the hostile reaction of the largley black audience, who are obviously miffed and made uncomfortable by the facts that Popkin explains (in good faith). Yes, Popkin is a typical leftist academic, who walks on eggeshells around blacks and other non-whites regarding these prickly subjects, but when the black audience members, who upon realizing that they have no serious justification for their viewpoints, fall back on the old "oral tradition" bit (which cannot be verified and holds no academic nor legal weight), it shows that they are bankrupt intellectually and cannot justify their anger and general anti white attitude. Yes, slavery was bad, yes whites were the first to abolish it, yes, the French were better than the English and Spanish regarding Amerindians and blacks, yes the salves massacred all of the Fench (meaning the white inhabitants of Saint Domingue), yes the gens de couleur libres were largely responsible for this (at the source, with the French Revolution in the background, because they, as mixed race, were probably completely rootless and were were quite upset about their "inbetween" status, caught between two worlds). I would say to black audiences to calm down, take a good long hard look at themselves in the mirror and try to be more balanced and less hysterical/hostile when coming to an academic conference with historians who actually have documentation to back up what they say and are not just making up stories that "oral tradition" told them.
It is important to remember that before the abolitionists there were the enslaved Black people from Africa who fought fiercely (Zumbi dos Palmares, evolta dos Males, Brasil) against this horrible system created by the European.
5 minutes in and I'm asking myself how long this video will take? Great subject. Smart people, probably a fun interesting book. I've been fracked so I won't be thinking about it for too long....
She is definitely not. On the contrary. She denounces the absurdity of the so called “culture appropriation” that provides the extreme right the tools to growth. She promotes the universalism anti racism against the identity antiracism. Read her book and you may understand….maybe.
Of course I wish Jimmy was still here, but man, I'm sure glad he was here when he was. A gentleman and true performer, entertainer, and story teller! Love and miss you Bubba
