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Sunday, March 17, 2013

Views of Bohemia

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These two postcards were mailed five years apart, the first to an address in Kutná Hora (or Kuttenberg) in Bohemia and the second from Kutn...
Saturday, March 16, 2013

Reading Martin du Gard (VII): Residue

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One of Roger Martin du Gard's first published works was a dissertation on the ruins of the abbey of Jumièges in Normandy, and it's ...
Sunday, March 10, 2013

The platform

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Three women in elaborate hats, two men in railway uniforms, a third man — and a very large dog. Real Photo postcard, location unidentified b...
Saturday, March 09, 2013

Re-reading Martin du Gard (VI): Funeral Rites

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After a long illness, Oscar Thibault, the grand paterfamilias of the Thibault family, has died, and among his papers his son Antoine finds i...
Sunday, March 03, 2013

Sapporo to Boston

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Dear Dr. Wight, How have you been since I left M. G. H.? I have arrived at Yokohama at the beginning of last June and I am now with all...
Saturday, March 02, 2013

Re-reading Martin du Gard (V)

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Oscar Thibault, the grand Catholic autocrat who looms over the first six parts of Roger Martin du Gard's Les Thibault, has finally died...
Sunday, February 24, 2013

Re-reading Martin du Gard (IV)

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The French text of Les Thibaults is readily available in a three-volume paperback edition, but I chose instead to read at least the first...
Saturday, February 16, 2013

The exchange

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This postcard of Stockholm was mailed from that city in 1903 by one Annie Sundberg and addressed to Mademoiselle Candelaria Benítez Inglott...
Saturday, February 09, 2013

Re-reading Martin du Gard (III)

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Much of La belle saison, the third part of Roger Martin du Gard's massive novel Les Thibaults, centers around the relationship betw...
Sunday, February 03, 2013

Re-reading Martin du Gard (II)

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Una novela de Galdós, qué idea. Cuando no era Vicki Baum era Roger Martin du Gard, y de ahí el salto inexplicable a Tristán L'Hermit...
Sunday, January 20, 2013

Lost at Sea

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Joseph E. Corrigan, the city magistrate who presided over the farcical legal proceedings reported in my last post , was a prominent New Y...
Saturday, January 19, 2013

An Exterior Disarrangement

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My next two posts will revisit two peripherally connected news stories, one comic and one tragic. The first is recorded in The Fourth Estate...
Monday, January 14, 2013

Re-reading Martin du Gard (I)

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At least thirty-five years ago I greedily devoured this 871-page translation of a novel by the 1937 Nobel Prize-winning novelist Roger Ma...
Saturday, January 12, 2013

Lowry Hamner: American Dreaming

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Lowry Hamner's an old friend, but since I hadn't heard that he was working on a new record it was an unexpected treat to find out...
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Creation

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Bruno Schulz: My father never tired of glorifying this extraordinary element — matter. "There is no dead matter," he taught us...
Tuesday, January 01, 2013

The Hinterland

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How do you write the history of something whose very nature consists of being unrecorded? How do you describe the pool of the unknown out of...
Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Out with the Old (2012)

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The fourth annual retrospective of the year's postings at this address. Money Home The Rotograph Project Two Group Portraits Ne...
Monday, December 24, 2012

Stille Nacht

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Postcard reproduction of a poster for Stephen and Timothy Quay's short film Stille Nacht I: Dramolet (1988). The letters "R. W....
Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Sumargestur

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A song by the young Icelandic musician Ásgeir Trausti . The title, I'm told, means something like "Summer Guest," and the song...
Friday, December 14, 2012

12/14/2012

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From today's New York Times : Each slaughter of innocents seems to get more appalling. A high school. A college campus. A movie theate...
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