[lit-ideas] Re: A thought for the coming year
- From: "Walter C. Okshevsky" <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 19:12:13 -0330
You got that right. I *loved* that novel. (And I don't read novels.) I read it
cover-to-cover in 2 or 3 sittings at Denise's house in 1974. Denise never got
past the 1st 5 pages, which made me wonder whether there was a future for us.
As it turned out, there wasn't. She didn't think much of Georg Lukacs either.
1. P-Q4, ---
Castalia forever, Walter
Quoting Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>:
> So, that is how you got into the Glass Bead Game. :)
>
> O.K.
>
>
>
> On Friday, January 3, 2014 10:45 PM, Walter C. Okshevsky <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> Hey, Germany is about the size of Ontario (a small province in Canada, just
> west
> of Quebec). I could drive it from end to end in my Volvo in less than a day.
> (I
> don't like to pedal-to-the-metal the poor dear.)
>
> Yes, this is a "Russian or Canadian" view of things (inclusive "or") for I
> consider myself a "Russian-Canadian." You Americans won't understand this
> expression but I can't tarry to explain it as I'm still working on a box of
> pizza. Punctuation, god love it.
>
> Eats shoots and leaves,
>
> Walter O
>
> P.S. Which reminds me. In my youth, I read the novels of Herman Hesse -
> almost
> all of them, actually. It was a kind of secular pilgrimage for us geeks who
> preferred him to Archie comics and who would grow up to be academics, judges
> and CEOs. In many of his novels, Hesses tells of his long, perilous journeys
> over difficult terrain in search of some existential end or whatever ...
> Later,
> after having travelled through much of Europe, I realized he was talking
> about a
> trip from Munich to Vienna!! We Canadians walk that length before breakfast.
> Try Hamilton to Victoria for pete's sake.
>
>
>
>
> Quoting David Ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> >
> > On Jan 3, 2014, at 9:59 AM, Walter C. Okshevsky wrote:
> > >
> > > (Lucky for him he's buried in England. The Germans permit you only 50
> > years of
> > > "resting in eternal peace" before they dig you up and out to make room
> for
> > the
> > > others. It's a small country with a large population.
> >
> > That's the first time I've heard Germany described as a small country; this
> > must be a Russian or Canadian view of things. I hope you're not suggesting
> > the Germans need Todesraum.
> >
> > In Singapore you only get fifteen years before they dig you up again.
> Here's
> > the reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Former_cemeteries_in_Singapore
> >
> > David Ritchie,
> > Portland, Oregon,
> > with cemeteries on several hilltops still
>
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