I try to keep blegs to a minimum but your help would be much appreciated on this. I’m hoping to help a photographer friend that is pulling together some photos of Native American ruins, rustic barns, etc. in a ‘vanishing America’ type of album. She would love to pair poems, or parts of poems, or […]
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The cover of the first edition of Prae (1934) This will be my final post devoted to notes and quotes on the Hyperion issue devoted to Miklós Szentkuthy. Filip Sikorski’s “Introductory Remarks on Miklós Szentkuthy’s Prae” provides a synopsis of the novel, looks at its main themes, investigates how it can be read non-linearly, and […]
I didn’t mean to disappear for a couple of weeks but it happened. I’ll try and get back on track tomorrow with the final post on the Hyperion edition devoted to Miklós Szentkuthy, including a few notes on the wonderful excerpt from Black Renaissance. To hold my feet to the fire, I’ll follow up with […]
Continuing with my notes and quotes on the Hyperion issue devoted to Miklós Szentkuthy… I’m not going to post much about István Vas’ article “Miklós Szentkuthy: a True Avant-Gardist”, although I do recommend reading it for his insight into the author and his work. I will draw attention to this extended quote since it highlights […]
Photo by András Szebeni Picture sourceIn my previous post on a collection of Szentkuthy links, I mentioned the Hyperion issue, devoted to Szentkuthy. Three articles have “mask” in the title (and other articles mention the word, too): “Masks Behind Masks: A Portrait of Miklós Szentkuthy” by András Nagy, “Behind the Mask and Under the Surface: […]
Since my notes on several books I’ve read have been lost, I thought I would start posting on what I’m currently reading…which is many articles about Miklós Szentkuthy as well as the recently released translation of Towards the One and Only Metaphor. Instead of having 20 tabs open in my browser I’m going to collect […]
Well, the play is over but I thought I would share this clip from Shakespeare Santa Cruz on The Taming of the Shrew. In it are Gretchen Hall (Kate), Fred Arsenault (Petruchio / Christopher Sly), and Edward Morgan (Director). They get to the heart of the play in the first sentence when mentioning […]
My computer died today. And then I made sure the damn thing was dead. Deader than dead. And then some. Not that he was waiting for the letter, but Michael Dell will not be receiving an invitation to any of our parties any time soon. But then that’s been true for the past few years […]
Alexander’s Lost World is a 6 x 60” series coproduced with David Adams Films and Sky Vision. Following the course of the River Oxus (Amu Darya) for the first time, Adams takes viewers on an extraordinary 1,500-mile (2400 km) journey through war-torn Afghanistan and Central Asia. The Ancient Greeks have long been credited for bringing […]
The article Calvin & Hobbes Creator’s Life Lessons Become Beautiful New Comic is artist Gavin Aung Than’s comic based on a speech Bill Watterson gave at Kenyon College in 1990. Well worth taking a few minutes to read and enjoy the artwork. “To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy but it is still […]