tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post3536274873469473490..comments2023-10-31T15:39:09.651+01:00Comments on box elder: More colour in November...Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-78795221351334869392009-11-19T18:28:08.392+01:002009-11-19T18:28:08.392+01:00I think I need to read this book.
I love the quot...I think I need to read this book.<br /><br />I love the quote about spring and autumn difference.<br /><br />I want to walk that field!Sheilahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03592157819188364751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-39370351999358716232009-11-19T16:20:39.110+01:002009-11-19T16:20:39.110+01:00My goodness, I love coming here.My goodness, I love coming here.christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04201537517464996231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-49370953193780954082009-11-19T11:16:01.153+01:002009-11-19T11:16:01.153+01:00Resonances with Anna Karenina which for me is more...Resonances with <em>Anna Karenina</em> which for me is more about Levin and less about the tragic lovers. An uneasy sense of masculinity has kept me away from H&A but there's yet another echo with "the elderly, cynical, fictitious old scholar" in the part of Don Alfonso in <em>Cosi</em>. And bringing us more or less up to date it's the sort of role that James Mason used to favour once he'd ceased to be a matinée idol, although there are many (Mrs BB prominent among them) who believe that that particular radiance only ceased with JM's death.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-5110860662809921542009-11-19T05:17:55.796+01:002009-11-19T05:17:55.796+01:00Beautiful November colors...Beautiful November colors...Granny Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07302978680897139954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-92090198790058379102009-11-18T18:49:04.742+01:002009-11-18T18:49:04.742+01:00I think H and A has a dramatic truth which is some...I think H and A has a dramatic truth which is somehow more important than the historic truth. I read it more than 50 years ago and it still seems to matter.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-21213232056511495852009-11-18T17:41:47.792+01:002009-11-18T17:41:47.792+01:00Beautiful. There are 2 symphonies that hold such a...Beautiful. There are 2 symphonies that hold such an import for me. When immersed in them, I heal a little. Coming out on the other side, I see things more clearly. And then there is a particular poet I can always rely on.<br />There is an Abelard volume on my shelf, I think. Unread. Now you've piqued my interest, Lucy.Rouchswalwehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01393987883437907945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-78772442822229180282009-11-18T14:16:57.665+01:002009-11-18T14:16:57.665+01:00Yes, it is interesting. I think often our percept...Yes, it is interesting. I think often our perceptions of our favourite books, or those that have left a particularly deep imprint on our soul, has more to do with how we ourselves were when we read them than the book itself.<br /><br />Two of the books I consider to be of particular significance to me were read at times when I really couldn't function at all, when it took a lot of effort to read, to force myself to let go of stuff and throw myself into the book - and when it finally happens, I think the experience is somehow more profound.<br /><br />Well, I have always thought that.rbnoreply@blogger.com