In this issue: Poe Festival in Prague Re: Chat: Book Question Today in History - July 13 Hardy story into movie Re: Hardy story into movie Re: Hardy story into movie Croquet Dictionary Croquet Dictionary Re: Croquet Dictionary cricket Re: Croquet Dictionary Re: Re: Croquet Dictionary Re: cricket Re: Chat: Book Question Re: Hardy story into movie RE: Chat: Book Question Re: Chat: Book Question (Seabrook) Chat: The Zeros (fwd) Etext avail: Fraser's Bulldog Carney in "The gold wolf" Re: Poe Festival in Prague _A dog of flanders_, the movie OT: re-reading Re: OT: re-reading Re: OT: re-reading Re: OT: re-reading Re: OT: re-reading OT: Re-Reading Re: OT: re-reading Re: re-reading Re: Re: OT: re-reading -----------------------------THE POSTS----------------------------- Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 01:05:22 -0700 From: Alan Gullette <alang(at)creative.net> Subject: Poe Festival in Prague [Forwarding this... A.G.] In celebration of the work and life of Edgar Allan Poe, The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Prague is hosting a three-month festival of mystery, imagination and the macabre to mark the 150th Anniversary of the death of Poe. The Prague-based festival will feature music, film, theatre and the largest exhibit of Poe-related artefacts, visual art, first editions and manuscripts ever displayed in Europe. At the festival website http://www.poe-festival.com you will find not only practical information on the festival, but as rights are secured over the coming weeks the site will feature audio and video clips of selected Poe-inspired works and a variety of Poe-related material. For those that will be unable to attend the festival, the site will bring the festival to you, featuring streaming audio and video of festival events, a virtual tour of the exhibit "Illustrations of a Tormented Mind", and a broadcast of the play Poezest as performed at the Divadlo Na Zabradli theatre. If you would like to place a link to http://www.poe-festival.com on your page, just go to our "Links" section, where you will find a variety of Poe Festival Links Buttons for you to place on your page and link to us. In return, we would be pleased to link to any Poe-related sites out there. Just visit our "submit a link" section, where you will find a form for you to use to submit your URL. Also, we are looking for any Poe-related digital sound, video, animations, Flash, Director, etc., files people may have that they would like to exhibit in our "Digital Poe" gallery. Negotiations are still underway as to whether this will be an installation exhibit in Prague or hosted solely online, but if you have a work to submit, send an e-mail to webmaster(at)poe-festival.com, detailing what you have and if you have exclusive rights to it and we will contact you. Thank you for your time. After visiting the site, any comments would be appreciated. For more general questions about the festival, please e-mail info(at)poe-festival.com. Best Regards, The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Prague
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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 08:05:04 +0300 From: cbishop(at)interlog.com (Carroll Bishop) Subject: Re: Chat: Book Question >Bob, > Your original question was whether you should throw the book away. >I can only say that someone once threw a book away which I found under >rather fey circumstances, leading to a seemingly magical introduction to >an odd author I would otherwise never have read. > John Squires Are you going to just tantalize us like that, John? Carroll
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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 09:18:17 -0600
From: Jerry Carlson <gmc(at)libra.pvh.org>
Subject: Today in History - July 13
1832
Henry Schoolcraft discovers the source of the Mississippi
River at Lake Itasca, Minnesota.
1862
Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest defeats a Union
force at Murfreesboro,
Tennessee.
1863
A three-day of riot against the draft begins in New York City,
resulting in more than 1,000
casualties.
1866
Great Eastern begins its two-week voyage to finish laying a
telegraph cable across the
Atlantic between Great Britain and the United States.
1878
The Congress of Berlin divides the Balkans between European
powers.
Birthdays
1886
Father Edward J. Flanagan, Roman Catholic priest, founder of
Boys' Town
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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 10:19:01 -0700 From: Patricia Teter <PTeter(at)getty.edu> Subject: Hardy story into movie Thomas Hardy's short story "The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion" was made into a movie last year, retitled _The Scarlet Tunic_. Did anyone happen to catch this film. I never saw any mention of it in the theatres or on video. Patricia
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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 12:52:22 -0600
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: Re: Hardy story into movie
I looked at the entry on Internet Movie Database with conflicting results. One
viewer wrote that _Scarlet tunic_ is "rubbish", while the overall rating for the
film is 8 out of 10 (based on a minimum of five viewers).
More cool-headed reviews can be found in these sources, listed elsewhere on IMDb
Printed Media Reviews
Vaughan, Darren. In: Total Film (UK). March 1998.
p. 96.
Murray, Giala. In: Empire (UK). July 1998. p. 47.
Brett, Anwar. In: Film Review (UK). July 1998. p.
26.
Stephen D
mailto:Sdavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 12:30:19 -0700 From: Patricia Teter <PTeter(at)getty.edu> Subject: Re: Hardy story into movie Stephen wrote: <<I looked at the entry on Internet Movie Database with conflicting results. One viewer wrote that _Scarlet tunic_ is "rubbish", while the overall rating for the film is 8 out of 10 (based on a minimum of five viewers).>> Thanks, Stephen. I noticed in one of the reviews from the official site that the director chose to distribute the film himself. This explains why the film had such limited exposure. Perhaps someday we will see it on video. Patricia
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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 17:13:27 -0400 (EDT) From: LoracLegid(at)aol.com Subject: Croquet Dictionary <A HREF="http://laplaza.org/~teddis/glossary.html">http://laplaza.org/~teddis/glo ssary.html </A> http://laplaza.org/~teddis/glossary.html I just have to believe that there are Croquet players in the Gaslight circle. Carol Digel LoracLegid(at)aol.com
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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 16:00:51 -0600 From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA Subject: Croquet Dictionary We've talked about cricket and its mysteries before. How about his URL, send in by Carol D., which explains croquet terms? - ---------------------- Forwarded by Stephen Davies/Academic/MRC on 07/13/99 03:59 PM --------------------------- LoracLegid(at)aol.com on 07/13/99 03:13:27 PM Please respond to gaslight(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA To: FehreRJ(at)ch.etn.com, digel(at)blazar.gsfc.nasa.gov cc: Bdigel(at)aol.com(bcc: Stephen Davies/Academic/MRC) Subject: Croquet Dictionary http://laplaza.org/~teddis/glossary.html I just have to believe that there are Croquet players in the Gaslight circle. Carol Digel LoracLegid(at)aol.com
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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 18:09:31 -0400 From: Linda Anderson <lpa1(at)ptdprolog.net> Subject: Re: Croquet Dictionary hoo boy/gurl yes I is/was! love the game. haven't played since my dad died but wow! it can be a killer of a game. Now if only ESPN would cover croquet and cricket..... at least the FoxSports do rugby.... At 05:13 PM 07/13/1999 -0400, you wrote: ><A >HREF="http://laplaza.org/~teddis/glossary.html">http://laplaza.org/~teddis/glo >ssary.html ></A> >http://laplaza.org/~teddis/glossary.html > >I just have to believe that there are Croquet players in the Gaslight circle. > >Carol Digel >LoracLegid(at)aol.com
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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 18:26:28 -0400 From: Linda Anderson <lpa1(at)ptdprolog.net> Subject: cricket I have a wonderful book called "Cricket Explained" by Robert Eastaway (St Martins Press (1992). But the best thing is to find a friend who has access to one day test matches and have them tape one for you. Even without a book, the idea of who does what and how they score will become apparent. If there are any Canadians who get cricket who would be willing to tape same (even though it is a different vcr format) I'd love to hear from them... sigh... I've never seen a real cutthroat croquet match. I know they exist- the Indian subcontinent is famous for them. Does anyone know of a movie showing same? Linda Anderson
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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 15:28:02 -0700 From: Patricia Teter <PTeter(at)getty.edu> Subject: Re: Croquet Dictionary Many thanks, Carol for the Croquet Dictionary. As a child I played croquet and only recently have taken up the sport again. A group of friends have established the "Occasional Oscar Wilde Invitational" Croquet Match, and occasionally, we spend the day playing croquet. (The Invitational was not held last year due to severe lethargy.) This dictionary will come in handy to resolve any disputes that can not be settled over a glass of champagne. Patricia
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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 18:54:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Zozie(at)aol.com Subject: Re: Re: Croquet Dictionary In a message dated 7/13/99 10:30:59 PM, Patricia wrote: <<This dictionary will come in handy to resolve any disputes that can not be settled over a glass of champagne. >> I, too, was an avid croquet player at one time, and a demon (they say) at it... but it is a civil game after all, even when cutthroat. Champagne seems a nice touch. My backyard has all the wondrous space for the game, but alas, slopes. Missing a wicket would put one in the poison ivy... But happy playing to those who can! best phoebe
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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 18:22:44 +0000 From: Marta Dawes <smdawes(at)home.com> Subject: Re: cricket My husband tells me that the VCR format in Canada is NTSC, like ours, so you should be able to play anything they tape up there. Marta Linda Anderson wrote: > > I have a wonderful book called "Cricket Explained" by Robert Eastaway (St > Martins Press (1992). > > But the best thing is to find a friend who has access to one day test > matches and have them tape one for you. Even without a book, the idea of > who does what and how they score will become apparent. > > If there are any Canadians who get cricket who would be willing to tape > same (even though it is a different vcr format) I'd love to hear from > them... sigh... > > I've never seen a real cutthroat croquet match. I know they exist- the > Indian subcontinent is famous for them. Does anyone know of a movie > showing same? > > Linda Anderson
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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 20:14:46 -0400
From: "John D. Squires" <jdsbooks(at)ameritech.net>
Subject: Re: Chat: Book Question
Carroll Bishop wrote:
> >Bob,
> > Your original question was whether you should throw the book away.
> >I can only say that someone once threw a book away which I found under
> >rather fey circumstances, leading to a seemingly magical introduction to
> >an odd author I would otherwise never have read.
> > John Squires
>
> Are you going to just tantalize us like that, John?
>
> Carroll
OK Carroll, here is the full story.
In Spring 1971 I was a young draftee stationed at Ft.
Monmouth, NJ undergoing training on communications gear.
I lived off post with my first wife in a little town on the Jersey
shore. It was an unhappy time for me in many respects and I
sometimes took walks around the town, just gathering wool.
One overcast Sunday I felt an odd compulsion to
take a path out of my way across a park. The path I was on
crossed another at the center of the park. As I approached
the intersection I notice a large mesh trash can, and on
impulse, glanced in it as I passed.
The can was completely empty except for a yellow
hardcover book with a drawing of a black man embossed
on the cover. My first wild thought was that I had discovered
Chambers? ?King in Yellow?, but on examination it was the
Literary Guild reprint of ?The Magic Island? by W. B.
Seabrook. I had never heard of either before, but felt sure
the book had been left for me to find. I read it through
that weekend & started the hunt for Seabrook?s other books.
He is usually found in the travel or occult sections. Along
with a few uncollected short stories and numerous magazine
articles he wrote:
?Adventures in Arabia? (1927) [Primarily his
experiences while living a year with a Bedouin tribe, but his
chapter on visiting a temple of the Yezidee Devil Worshipers
surely inspired one of Robert E. Howard?s lessor stories.]
?The Magic Island? (1929) [Recounting another year
spent primarily in the bush with a Voodoo Priestess in Haiti.
Alexander King?s drawings remind me of Lee Brown Coye at
his best. Reissued as a paperback in the 1970s as ?Voodoo
Island? & marketed in the occult section.]
?Jungle Ways? (1931) [Proclaimed on the dust jacket
as ?Seabrook?s Book out of Africa?. Notorious for Seabrook?s
claimed participation in a cannibal feast.]
?Air Adventure: Paris-Sahara-Timbuctoo? (1933) [An
account of his early air journey from Paris to Timbuctoo, an
unusual and dangerous journey at the time.]
?The White Monk of Timbuctoo? (1934) [A biography
of Pere Dupuis-Yakouba.]
?Asylum? (1935) [An account of his commitment to
an asylum seeking a cure of his alcoholism.]
?These Foreigners? (1938) [Surveys of various
immigrant groups in America. Versions of the various chapters
appeared first in magazine form.]
?Witchcraft: Its Power in the World Today? (1940)
[Like it sounds & also reprinted as a paperback in the 1970s.]
?Doctor Wood? (1941) [A biography of Robert W. Wood.]
?No Hiding Place? (1942) A very curious autobiography.
Seabrook claimed his mother was a witch, meaning more than a
little fey. He led a fascinating life, bumming around Europe for
a while, then building a successful business in Atlanta. He grew
tired, gave it up & moved to NYC where he & his first wife set up
a coffee shop in Greenwich Village. They befriended a young Arab
student who told him to be sure to look up his father, a Sheik, if he
ever went to North Africa. Seabrook walked away from the coffee
shop, dropped his wife in Algiers & spent the next year in the desert,
leading to his first book.
He followed a similar pattern through his next several books.
I believe it has been said that Seabrook traveled ?deeply as well as
widely? and his early books were widely reprinted. All in all a
very odd, but interesting fellow. He died of an overdose of sleeping
pills in 1945. Ward Green wrote a novel about him, ?Ride the
Nightmare? (1930). Marjorie Worthington?s biography, ?The
Strange World of Willie Seabrook? provides an interesting contrast
to ?No Hiding Place?. Worthington (his second wife) recounts
some of the same incidents Seabrook described, but from an
entirely different perspective.
I mentioned Seabrook in passing once to Manly Wade
Wellman, who snorted & said something to the effect that
Seabrook was a thief who lifted ideas from other writers. I have
not reread anything by him in 20 years or more, but will never
forget my discovery of that discarded copy of ?Magic Island?
so many years ago.
John Squires,
Shadow haunted, Kettering, Ohio
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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 21:17:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: Donna Goldthwaite <dgold(at)javanet.com>
Subject: Re: Hardy story into movie
Hi all,
I just found a great site for movie reviews: http://www.mrqe.com
Virgin.net has this to say about _Scarlet Tunic_
The Scarlet Tunic (12)
Starring: Simon Callow, John Sessions
Director: Stuart St. Paul
Full cast list: IMDB
Period drama about love and class conflict, set in the ravishing
English countryside at the time of
the Napoleonic wars. But that's where any resemblance to Jane Austen
ends. This is Hardy, where
love is doomed, class conflict smoulders and the combination of the
two builds a rising tension
which inevitably snaps into tragedy. Only the excesses of the
homosexual subplot jar in a film
which otherwise matches the bleak beauty of the novel.
The other two archived reviews are from UK sources. According to
the IMDB, it was released in the UK only (June 1998). It doesn't appear
that a video is available but I didn't do a very extensive search.
Best,
Donna Goldthwaite
dgold(at)javanet.com
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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 21:28:40 -0400 From: "James E. Kearman" <jkearman(at)mindspring.com> Subject: RE: Chat: Book Question John D. Squires wrote: > I can only say that someone once threw a book away which I found under > rather fey circumstances, leading to a seemingly magical introduction to > an odd author I would otherwise never have read. I will always treasure > my memory of that discovery, and the full shelf of books it led me to. Author! Author!
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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 22:35:43 +0300 From: cbishop(at)interlog.com (Carroll Bishop) Subject: Re: Chat: Book Question (Seabrook) Dear John: I'm glad I asked. Great story. He sounds familiar: I think I sort of associate him with Faulkner (who I am ashamed to say I've never read). Carroll
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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 02:54:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Champ <rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu>
Subject: Chat: The Zeros (fwd)
We had a discussion some time back on what to call the first millenium of
the twenty-first century. (My own favorite--if I remember correctly--was
the "noughties.") The English have lately taken on this grave question
as well, as the article below (from the _Times_ of London) shows. To my
mind the choice looks uninspired, and I hope it doesn't stand. Perhaps
the next decade will provide its own name, one that we will know
instinctively is right ("the shock of recognition," you know). But I
suspect if this one becomes the popular expression in England, it will
cross the Big Pond and settle in here too.
Bob C.
The years Zeros get the nod
BY ROBIN YOUNG
THE British public has a clear preference about what to call the next decade.
One third of the population, according to a poll, believe that the first ten
years of the 21st century should be referred to as "the Zeros".
The Oh-Ohs was the second choice, followed by the hopeful-sounding term "the
Earlies", which flies in the face of doomy pronouncements that the end of the
world is nigh. More than a quarter of the 1,000 people asked had not a clue
what they should call the next ten years. Trevor Morris, of the London PR
consultancy QBO, which commissioned the survey, said: "We ran into the
problem of what to call the next decade while planning campaigns that will
run after 2000 so we decided to ask people. We think 'the Zeros' captures a
sense of starting afresh with a clean sheet."
The survey shows that many people expect the Zeros to be a time of
technological breakthrough: more than three-fifths expect a cure for cancer.
Others fear technological advance will cause climatic changes. One in four
thinks war will break out in Europe and an equal number expect a stockmarket
crash. Mr Morris said: "Every decade this century from the Twenties had a
name and personality. We believe the Zeros will prove no different. We could
see the emergence of Zeros man and woman, Zeros values and Zeros heroes."
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Robert L. Champ
rchamp(at)polaris.umuc.edu
Editor, teacher, anglophile, human curiosity
Whatever things are pure, whatever things are
lovely, whatever things are of good report, if
there is any virtue and if there is anything
praiseworthy, meditate on these things
Philippians 4:8
rchamp7927(at)aol.com robertchamp(at)netscape.net
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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 07:58:08 -0600
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: Etext avail: Fraser's Bulldog Carney in "The gold wolf"
From: Stephen Davies(at)MRC on 07/14/99 07:58 AM
To: Gaslight-announce(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
cc:
Subject: Etext avail: Fraser's Bulldog Carney in "The gold wolf"
(BULLMENU.HTM) (Nonfic, Chronos)
W.A. Fraser's "The gold wolf" (1919)
Altho July promised to be a month of treasures, I've had a few
setbacks. Leaping into the breach is our lanky friend, Bulldog
Carney.
bulldog4.sht
In "The gold wolf", Fraser once again has Carney rub shoulders,
and nothing else, with his dream girl, Jeanette. You'll
remember that Jeanette is already married to the cur Seth Long.
While Carney is a thief, he's nothing if not honourable.
Our assignment is to read this story and block it out for
publication (pretended only). Where would we illustrate the
story, and in what manner?
The more progressive of us can even begin casting calls for the
movie version.
I hope to be back on track next week with the first half of Jarvis'
_Geoffrey Hampstead_ (1890), the most reviewed novel of its day.
To retrieve all the plain ASCII files send to: ftpmail(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
with no subject heading and completely in lowercase:
open aftp.mtroyal.ab.ca
cd /gaslight
get bulldog4.sht
or visit the Gaslight website at:
http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/gaslight/bullmenu.htm
Stephen D
mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 10:30:05 -0600
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: Re: Poe Festival in Prague
Alan,
I tried the "Poe in Prague" website ( http://www.poe-festival.com ) but the
schedule page does not work. I understand the festival is three months long,
but I cannot find any dates. Does anyone know its schedule?
I have a friend who wants to stop in Prague this fall.
Stephen D
mailto:SDavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 15:50:02 -0600
From: sdavies(at)MtRoyal.AB.CA
Subject: _A dog of flanders_, the movie
Another Gaslight era movie which seems to have passed everyone by is _Dog of
Flanders_. I'm assuming this is based on the Ouida novel. I'm reading an
ancient _Tribute_ magazine (a Canadian movie promo vehicle), and it predicts the
movie will be out in the summer of '98. Here's the blurb:
>> This story highlights the enourmous healing power of animals and their
capacity for supporting humans in their time of need. By nursing a loving dog
back to health, a young artist re-gains a sense of perspective on his life and
the hardships clouding it. Jon Voight and Richard Harris star. <<
Any more info, anyone?
Ah! I see http://www.tribute.ca lists the movie as still forthcoming, and
mentions that it also stars Jason Robards as the grandfather who helps the boy
heal (heel?) said dog. According to http://www.imdb.com the director is Kevin
Brodie, whose previous credentials are not reassuring.
Stephen D
mailto:Sdavies(at)mtroyal.ab.ca
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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 18:43:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Zozie(at)aol.com Subject: OT: re-reading In an aside off-list, Carroll and I were mentioning some books we liked... I mentioned Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, a book I re-read with pleasure periodically. Got me wondering about books people re-read more than once or twice... anyone willing to share the guilty pleasure of a re-read instead of tackling that tall To Be Read stack... and I'll bite the bullet... the aforementioned Faulkner Dreiser's Sister Carrie Patrick White's Voss Crime and Punishment All the Hardy Stuff, but most often Tess and Jude I think there are some more, but titles escape me at the moment... best wishes, phoebe Phoebe Wray zozie(at)aol.com
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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 18:25:46 +0000 From: Marta Dawes <smdawes(at)home.com> Subject: Re: OT: re-reading The one that tops my re-read list is "Jane Eyre". After that: The Prodigal Women-Nancy Hale Anything by Frank Yerby Richard Halliburton's wonderful books Life with Father-Clarence Day Anything by James Thurber Through the Looking Glass-Lewis Carroll Any short ghost stories by M. R. James, E. F. Benson, A. M. Burrage, A. C. Doyle, Algernon Blackwood, Poe, etc. Any sci-fi story/book by Clifford Simak, Theodore Sturgeon or Roger Zelazny I love to re-read these, since it's like greeting an old friend every time I do. Marta Zozie(at)aol.com wrote: > > In an aside off-list, Carroll and I were mentioning some books we liked... I > mentioned Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, a book I re-read with pleasure > periodically. Got me wondering about books people re-read more than once or > twice... anyone willing to share the guilty pleasure of a re-read instead of > tackling that tall To Be Read stack... > > and I'll bite the bullet... the aforementioned Faulkner > Dreiser's Sister Carrie > Patrick White's Voss > Crime and Punishment > All the Hardy Stuff, but most often Tess and Jude > I think there are some more, but titles escape me at the moment... > > best wishes, > phoebe > > Phoebe Wray > zozie(at)aol.com
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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 19:52:07 +0300 From: cbishop(at)interlog.com (Carroll Bishop) Subject: Re: OT: re-reading >Patrick White's Voss Oh, me too, VOSS! Actually I've only read it three times, but it must be time again. And it reminds me of another book I reread from time to time: DuMaurier's PETER IBBETSON. (the dream connection in both). I reread Charles Williams quite often -- love his novels. Also C. S. Lewis's THAT HIDEOUS STRENGTH. (I prefer the shorter version.) Robertson Davies, in no particular order. Am reading HAPPY ALCHEMY at the moment. Rumer Godden's A CANDLE FOR ST. JUDE at least once a year. Ditto Burnett's THE SECRET GARDEN. These aren't children's books for me. John Buchan's THE DANCING FLOOR. (Again because of the dream motif -- the hero has a recurring dream which turns out to be his life task.) I reread most of the Modern novels when I did a late M.A. about 10 years ago, and remember them too well to reread right now. DANIEL DERONDA was probably my favorite. And THE RAINBOW. Not time to reread yet though. Malcolm Bradbury's DOCTOR CRIMINALE. Carroll
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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 18:03:11 -0700 From: Deborah McMillion Nering <deborah(at)gloaming.com> Subject: Re: OT: re-reading >Through the Looking Glass-Lewis Carroll >Any short ghost stories by M. R. James, E. F. Benson, A. M. Burrage, Add these to my list, HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE every few years by Shirley Jackson. DARK IS RISING every Christmas, by Susan Cooper. LAND OF LAUGHS by Jonathan Carroll every time life gets strange. I, ROBOT stories, by Asimov, every summer when I need the coolness of space (and various stories by Sturgeon and Wm. Tenn). Some kind of Mummy story every summer. I don't care who, just get me one. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE just whenever I need some gentle sarcasm. SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES every Hallowe'en. Just off the top of the head.... Fun off topic. Deborah Deborah McMillion deborah(at)gloaming.com http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 19:08:49 -0600 (MDT)
From: John Woolley <jwoolley(at)dna420.mcit.com>
Subject: Re: OT: re-reading
Books I read and read and read again:
The Bible (King James and Vulgate, mostly)
Dante, _La Vita Nuova_ and _Divina Commedia_
Tolkien, _The Hobbit_ and _The Lord of the Rings_
Jane Austen, all six novels
Most of Shakespeare
Thomas a Kempis, _De imitatione Christi_
St. Therese, _L'Histoire d'une Ame_
St. Augustine, _Confessiones_
C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia (ostensibly to children, but
really because I like them myself)
Milne, _Winnie-the-Pooh_ and _The House at Pooh Corner_ (ditto)
Grahame, _The Wind in the Willows_
Brother Lawrence, _La pratique de la presence de Dieu_
Charles Williams, _Taliessin through Logres_ and _The Region of
the Summer Stars_
St. Francois de Sales, _Introduction a la Vie Devote_
Stevenson, _Treasure Island_
Chaucer, _Caunterbury Tales_
Raymond Chandler
Malory, _Le Morte d'Arthur_
MacDonald, _The Princess and the Goblin_
Once upon a time, as an undergraduate, I took a "Great Books"
course. The teacher had a lovely (if gramatically anomalous)
definition of a Great Book. It's a book, she said, that, if
someone tells you "I read that every year", you don't think
he's crazy.
- -- Fr. John
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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 20:19:23 -0500 From: rking(at)INDIAN.VINU.EDU Subject: OT: Re-Reading Every couple of Christmases I read John Mortimer's PARADISE POSTPONED and every couple of years I read PROVENCAL TALES, by Michael De Larrabeiti. I won't say what Victorian/Edwardian ghost stories I reread: there are too many to count. Richard King rking(at)indian.vinu.edu
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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 20:17:47 +0000 From: Marta Dawes <smdawes(at)home.com> Subject: Re: OT: re-reading Thanks, Deborah, for reminding me. Haunting of Hill House is another I reread often, as well as The Secret Garden, mentioned in another post. Also The Phantom Tollbooth, a book I adore. Marta Deborah McMillion Nering wrote: > > >Through the Looking Glass-Lewis Carroll > >Any short ghost stories by M. R. James, E. F. Benson, A. M. Burrage, > > Add these to my list, HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE every few years by > Shirley Jackson. DARK IS RISING every Christmas, by Susan Cooper. > LAND OF LAUGHS by Jonathan Carroll every time life gets strange. I, > ROBOT stories, by Asimov, every summer when I need the coolness of > space (and various stories by Sturgeon and Wm. Tenn). Some kind of > Mummy story every summer. I don't care who, just get me one. PRIDE > AND PREJUDICE just whenever I need some gentle sarcasm. SOMETHING > WICKED THIS WAY COMES every Hallowe'en. Just off the top of the > head.... > > Fun off topic. > > Deborah > > Deborah McMillion > deborah(at)gloaming.com > http://www.gloaming.com/deborah.html
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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 21:44:33 -0400
From: Kay Douglas <gwshark(at)erols.com>
Subject: Re: re-reading
Rereading... ah what a pleasure. It's always interesting to contemplate
which books become perennial favorites. A few of mine are:
E.F. Benson's Mapp & Lucia books
Janet Lewis - The Wife of Martin Guerre
Joyce Cary - The Horse's Mouth
Jerome K. Jerome - Three Men in a Boat
Turgenev's Sportsman's Sketches
William Thackeray - Vanity Fair
Lady Murasaki's Tale of Genji
Edith Sitwell - English Eccentrics
Jane Austen - Persuasion (well, all of them, but this is my favorite)
Mary Kingsley's Travels in West Africa
Short stories (Chekhov, Conan Doyle, Wodehouse, Benchley, Thurber),
including lots of favorite ghost stories.
Favorite light verse - Edward Lear, W.S. Gilbert, don marquis, Ogden Nash
I'm also a Haunting of Hill House rereader, plus for some reason I've never
quite figured out, I reread John Wyndham's science fiction novels a lot -
Day of the Triffids, Rebirth, etc.
Kay Douglas
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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 21:47:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Zozie(at)aol.com Subject: Re: Re: OT: re-reading In a message dated 7/14/99 11:59:22 PM, you wrote: <<Rumer Godden's A CANDLE FOR ST. JUDE>> Oh Carroll... I had forgotten this book. I will now re-read it. I only recall how very moved I was, how much I enjoyed it. Someone said the Shakespeare canon... well, ya know, I'm a theatre cat... I read shakespeare continually., have been through the canon and the apochryphal stuff many many times in my life. Always rewarding. Have even read Henry VI more than once. Good girl. Actually, it has some sublime moments. I directed a production of Sir Thomas More... a most interesting play with (it is avered) a scene by Will... And all of Virginia Woolf, as the spirit moves me. phoebe ------------------------------ End of Gaslight Digest V1 #82 *****************************