{"id":9061,"date":"2010-04-14T15:43:17","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T22:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=9061"},"modified":"2013-12-03T17:50:35","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T00:50:35","slug":"spring-reading-javier-marias-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2010\/04\/14\/spring-reading-javier-marias-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Reading, Javier Marias + Others"},"content":{"rendered":"

Javier Marias has a new book Your Face Tomorrow. <\/a> – Stephanie Merritt welcomes the third and final part of an extraordinary work by a great novelist of our age
\nMarias talking here on video.<\/a> <\/p>\n

3quarksdaily – <\/p>\n

Mar\u00edas\u2019 writing creed \u201cI progress as I digress\u201d underlines the importance of literary speculation in understanding the world around us. The urgency that drives Mar\u00edas\u2019 large novel in the absence of dramatic incidents flows from these often poignant meditations on history and ethics. They can be summed up in the words of another anglophone Spaniard George Santayana who said \u201cthose who forget the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it.\u201d (Via<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Javier Marias<\/a> (previous post)\"Javier <\/p>\n

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    Problems of Life – Wittgenstein<\/a> from Beyond the Pale (Tom Clark’s blog)<\/p>\n

    The human gaze has a power of conferring value on things; but it makes them cost more, too.
    \n(1929)
    \nDon’t play with what lies deep in another person!<\/p>\n

    The face is the soul of the body.
    \n(circa 1932-1934)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    The House of Wittgenstein <\/a><\/p>\n

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    Call Him Andean Jones
    \nAdventurer, pilot, senator\u2014and the man who found Machu Picchu –    Hiram Bingham III <\/a>
    \nHiram Bingham III \"1HiramBingham\"<\/p>\n

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    Hilberg <\/a>\"1Hilberg\"
    \nHanna Arendt never did the research, she popularized the idea that Nazis were primarily bureaucrats. Here is a book about the man whose research Hanna used without attribution. <\/p>\n

    Hilberg was not happy either. After toiling for thirteen years on his book, he was being eclipsed by someone who had worked for little more than two years on hers. “Who was I, after all?” Hilberg asked bitterly in his autobiography. “She, the thinker, and I, the laborer who wrote only a simple report, albeit one which was indispensable once she had exploited it.” (From the Nation<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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    Thrill of the Chase the Truth about Gandhi’s sex life<\/a>
    \nWith religious chastity under scrutiny, a new book throws light on Gandhi’s practice of sleeping next to naked girls. In fact, he was sex-mad, writes biographer Jad Adams
    \n    Father and Son <\/a>(previous post) \"Gandhi<\/p>\n

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    April 16 update:
    \n1178 BC;     The calculated date <\/a>of the Greek king Odysseus’ return home from the Trojan War.<\/p>\n

    Odysseus by Arnold B\u00f6cklin<\/a> <\/p>\n

    Odyssues by Max Beckmann<\/a><\/p>\n

    Coen brothers claimed never to have read Homer’s poem. “O Brother Where are Thou<\/a>”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Javier Marias has a new book Your Face Tomorrow. – Stephanie Merritt welcomes the third and final part of an extraordinary work by a great novelist of our age Marias talking here on video. 3quarksdaily – Mar\u00edas\u2019 writing creed \u201cI progress as I digress\u201d underlines the importance of literary speculation in understanding the world around … <\/p>\n

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