The South African Music Thread!

Ayn Marx · 05-19-2022, 04:27 PM

"Am I enjoying this moment? I know of it and perhaps that is enough." - Sybille Bedford, 1953
My advancing dementia means I sometimes don’t ‘know’ the moment, let alone getting to ask the question.
QUOTE=Lisnaholic;2205275]Thanks for asking! She was a writer, active from the 50s through to the 80s. Today it's possible that her life is seen as more exciting than her books: she was buffeted around Europe by the Second World War, meeting various famous writers and ending up for a while in California. If, like me, you enjoy a bit of celeb gossip, you might be amused by these details that come from her Wikipedia page:-

My five cents is that Martha Gellhorn's grass-roots journalism makes for better reading today than Sybille Bedford's books, which don't quite shake off the atmosphere of privilege with which she was surrounded. Still, Sybille could come up with a good one-liner, which is why I have that quote of hers: written in her notebook while on a long train journey, isn't it a question that we are all perpetually asking ourselves?[/QUOTE]
Thanks. I’ll track down Martha Gellhorn’s journalism. This far I haven’t dug up a hard copy collection of her articles from the web. Any suggestions?
"- - - - an ex-boyfriend of a former manservant of W. H. Auden” There’s an obscure claim to celebrity.

Lisnaholic · 05-21-2022, 08:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Ayn Marx

Thanks. I’ll track down Martha Gellhorn’s journalism. This far I haven’t dug up a hard copy collection of her articles from the web. Any suggestions?
"- - - - an ex-boyfriend of a former manservant of W. H. Auden” There’s an obscure claim to celebrity.

Yes, that claim to fame made me smile too!

As for Gellhorn online, the only place I looked was amazon, where she has several books still in print, and youtube, which has this reading of some of her writing:-

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On topic: Some links in this thread have expired, so I thought I'd bring at least one back to life. This is from an album recommended by Psy-Fi, "Totum" by Abstract Truth. The album takes a light, jazzy look at various well known songs, mainly from USA and Britain, but with little or nothing from traditional SA sources.

Ayn Marx · 05-22-2022, 05:06 AM

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Yes, that claim to fame made me smile too!

As for Gellhorn online, the only place I looked was amazon, where she has several books still in print, and youtube, which has this reading of some of her writing:-

Thanks. I placed my order.

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Ayn Marx Music Addict Join Date: May 2022 Location: Sometimes Posts: 552	"Am I enjoying this moment? I know of it and perhaps that is enough." - Sybille Bedford, 1953 My advancing dementia means I sometimes don’t ‘know’ the moment, let alone getting to ask the question. QUOTE=Lisnaholic;2205275]Thanks for asking! She was a writer, active from the 50s through to the 80s. Today it's possible that her life is seen as more exciting than her books: she was buffeted around Europe by the Second World War, meeting various famous writers and ending up for a while in California. If, like me, you enjoy a bit of celeb gossip, you might be amused by these details that come from her Wikipedia page:- My five cents is that Martha Gellhorn's grass-roots journalism makes for better reading today than Sybille Bedford's books, which don't quite shake off the atmosphere of privilege with which she was surrounded. Still, Sybille could come up with a good one-liner, which is why I have that quote of hers: written in her notebook while on a long train journey, isn't it a question that we are all perpetually asking ourselves?[/QUOTE] Thanks. I’ll track down Martha Gellhorn’s journalism. This far I haven’t dug up a hard copy collection of her articles from the web. Any suggestions? "- - - - an ex-boyfriend of a former manservant of W. H. Auden” There’s an obscure claim to celebrity. Last edited by Ayn Marx; 05-19-2022 at 04:33 PM.