Book Talk
To buoy the flagging mood, I went to buy fresh pulp - even though I am running out of floor space in my sub-cave to construct new leaning towers of books.
I found two hardback volumes of Solzhenitsyn's opus The Gulag Archipelago for 4 bucks a piece, along with the usual haul of slender poetry volumes.
Trust those crazy Russians to write book that can damage your foot, if you have an 'oopsy' moment while reading them. Also most definately not comfortable to put these tomes on the chest, and read oneself to sleep!
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In Passing ~ Saul Bellow
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When I opened up the news section of Google today, I noticed that Bellow had passed away. As someone who exalted Blake-ian energy, and who celebrated life of the mind and Quality in a culture caught (very literally) in a death spiral, with his essays, novels and advocacy, his presence will be missed.
"I am an American, Chicago born - Chicago, that sombre city - and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent." as Augie March opens, should be enough inspiration for us, wannabe quill-drivers, to make record in our own way.
Best. ~S
PS: This also reminds me that in college, I never did finish reading to the end, Augie March. Perhaps it's time now to do so.
Excellent pieces on Bellow here:
'A voice alive'
A modern master
Bellow in his own words
Saul Bellow, Poet of Urban America's Dangling Men
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Raghu Rai's India
For the spirit of India captured through the lens of one of India's best photographers, check this out:
Spirit Scape
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