Marie Monday

I had erased that from my memory

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Lisnaholic

Aha! Please consider my post edited like this, jadis:-

I think Kurt Vonnegut did this in Breakfast of Champions, didn't he? At first characters are introduced with quite conventional descriptions, "a tall dark-haired man", but little by little the descriptions become more random, " a woman with an undiagnosed heart condition and a vestigal extra toe" before settling on penis size as the go-to detail to describe the male characters. Very neatly done by KV.

Me too, I'm happy to say.

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jadis

Thanks! All I knew is that in an autobiographical essay from 1979, Angela Carter writes about being raised by a larger-than-life yarn-spinning Yorkshire matriarch of a grandmother, and makes a humorous reference to the "family talent for magical realism" - so I gathered the term must have been well entrenched by the late 1970s, especially after Carter's own The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972) and The Passion of New Eve (1977). Thanks very much for this more precise information.

Marie Monday

I think vonnegut pretty much immediately goes to dick size lol. He also mentions comments on the dick size of the main character in slaughterhouse five

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The Batlord

I've been meaning to pick this up for awhile now just cause I love the author's podcast, Lions Led by Donkeys, and it's just as funny as I was hoping. His less than stellar experiences in Afghanistan.

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Lisnaholic

Is that right, Marie? Good for Vonnegut! Slaughterhouse 5 is another book that I have largely forgotten - unless that is the one in which numerous paragraphs are concluded with the irritating sentence, "So it goes." Because of that one stylistic trick, I've avoided reading him ever since.

You're welcome, jadis! I'm not familiar with Angela Carter, and certainly had no idea that she was part of some early Yorkshire tradition of magic realism.
Thanks for the info.
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That quote is a great indication of what I imagine is the real-life muddle of war, so often left out of the movies and history books.

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Mucha na Dziko

It is.



And that’s why i loved it.

It just shows the fragility of human life/psyche and shows how to deal with it

(It’s just the way things are...what can you do about it? Better just acceot and Move on)

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Mucha na Dziko

Ken Wilber’s „Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life of Treya Killam Wilber”

I’ve had a hard time finding the english title, as in Polish it’s called „The Mortal Immortals” (or whatever you’d translate it to)


As most of things I do or read or write I started reading it through sheer luck, and then immediately saw the coincidence (in my life) in that I’m reading it now.

I’m having quite the hard time in my relationship currently, and this book really gives me he creeps on how accurate it is in describing the different aspects of thought of both people in romance (in the book you have the diaries/written notes of Treya, and commentaries and diaries of Wilber)
Though you could say the cancer is slowly eating up our relationship (certainly not her...[though one could argue]).

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innerspaceboy

For my 40th birthday I decided to treat myself to something nice. I tracked down a copy of the 1893 first-ever publication of the concluding tale of Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of The Final Problem in which the great detective meets his untimely demise.

The Strand magazine serials were published in clothbound hardcover editions biannually, and The Final Problem first appeared with four other Holmes adventures in Vol VI July-to-December 1893.

I had a copy flown in from Northumberland in North East England for my library. This lavishly illustrated first edition includes Sidney Paget’s famous image titled, “The Death of Sherlock Holmes” depicting Holmes and Professor Moriarty’s final battle over Reichenbach Falls.

A treasure for my collection.

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