(Msg. 1) Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 3:44 pm
Post subject: "Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition" by Robert Pogue Harrison Archived from groups: rec>gardens, others (more info?)
"...Gardens, though they offer peace and repose, are islands of
care,...not a refuge from it. That is why they are important,
since care is what makes us human..."
Joan Didion essay sought - Can somebody give the title of essay or book by Didion where she laments the immense crowds you find everywhere today? thanks
REVIEW: Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev by Robert .. - TITLE: Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev AUTHOR: Robert Dessaix PUBLISHER: Picador (Sept. 2004) ISBN: 0 330 36499 5 PRICE: A$40.00 (hardback) 275 pages Reviewed by Ann Skea (ann@skea.com) "One Saturday morning when I was about eleven o...
Book Review - The Road to Wigan Pier (Orwell) - The Road to Wigan Pier George Orwell Penguin 1962 [1937] 204 pages A book review by Danny Yee http://dannyreviews.com/h/Wigan_Pier.html In the 1930s George Orwell set out to learn about the English working class, spending time living among the..
Algernon Charles Swinburne - These two poems by Swinburne have been overlooked in the great mass of excellent verse he penned. In the diction and style of Scots border ballads, they come from the Third Series of Poems of Ballads. The Witch-Mother "O where will ye gang to and ...
The name's Bloom... Leopold Bloom. - I haven't read any Ian Fleming since jr-high, I don't think, but a recent piece on Hawthorne in the Guardian http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/classics/story/0,6000,991538,00.html made the provocative claim that "You Only Live Twice" dra...
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