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Zweig is almost unknown today, yet he is surely one of the greatest writers of the 20th century and Beware of Pity is absolutely superb. I read The Unbearable etc. years ago, I recall really enjoying it. Have yet to read any Roth. I'm sure I probably should, but you can't read everything, can you?
Recently I have been trying to work my way through some of the classics that I haven't read yet and I thought Gustave Flaubert's 'Madame Bovary' was genius. Incredibly modern in its open-minded and frank treatment of female desire and aspiration for a book that was written in 1856. Not surprised the bourgeoisie were scandalised at the time! So that's a recommendation if such things appeal to you. However I admit I am struggling with Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time', it requires dedication to stick with it.
Anyway, enough of the highbrow hoo-ha, if you like unputdownable, immersive fiction, Lian Hearn's 'Tales of the Otari' series is utterly brilliant. So good in fact that when I got to the end of the five book series, I started again. The series is set in a fictionalised 16th century Japan, a time when the Japanese were starting to be impacted by European culture and technology.
If anyone wants any other recommendations, just say what genre... happy to oblige. As you can tell, I like literary threads! ;-)
I think it's probably more likely that this deal, and the Saito deal, were already lined up, but awaiting Eze's deal to go through before they have them the green light.
Autumn is possibly the most poetic of the seasons, it lends itself to melancholy and wistfulness. There are some very well known autumn poems, with Keats' Ode to Autumn at the forefront.. I quite like this one by T. E. HULME.
Autumn
A touch of cold in the Autumn night— I walked abroad, And saw the ruddy moon lean over a hedge Like a red-faced farmer. I did not stop to speak, but nodded, And round about were the wistful stars With white faces like town children.
When I saw the thread title I was thinking about the first pint I ever bought. It was in the Blue Anchor, 1976 (I was 15, those were days!) and it cost 25 pence.
In 1976 the average wage was £76 quid a week. If you multiply it by the increase in a pint of beer since then (basing it on the price in the B&W), you'd be looking at an average weekly wage of £2,280. Whereas in fact the average weekly wage today in the UK is, quoting from the ONS, "£724 for total earnings and £679 for regular earnings."
In other words, ladies and gents, we have been robbed blind by successive governments and taxation for the last 50 years. Moaning old git I may be, but fck me, it's a chilling statistic.
Just as a point of reference, our first 16 games last season, with the beloved Marti, in his second season, at the helm; 1 win, 7 defeats, 8 draws.
Some of the nonsense I've read in this thread and others is frankly embarrassing. Talk about Drama Queen's Park Rangers. A modicum of perspective might be helpful:
10 August Queens Park Rangers 1–3 West Bromwich Albion
17 August Sheffield United 2–2 Queens Park Rangers
24 August Queens Park Rangers 1–1 Plymouth Argyle
30 August Luton Town 1–2 Queens Park Rangers
14 September Sheffield Wednesday 1–1 Queens Park Rangers
21 September Queens Park Rangers 1–1 Millwall
28 September Blackburn Rovers 2–0 Queens Park Rangers
1 October Queens Park Rangers 1–3 Hull City
5 October Derby County 2–0 Queens Park Rangers
19 October Queens Park Rangers 1–2 Portsmouth
22 October Queens Park Rangers 1–1 Coventry City
26 October Burnley 0–0 Queens Park Rangers
2 November Queens Park Rangers 0–0 Sunderland
5 November Queens Park Rangers 1–4 Middlesbrough
2 episodes into Rivière-Perdue (Lost River) on Prime and I'm enjoying it. On the face of it, it's a fairly standard mystery/crime drama, but it has enough about it to make it very watchable, not least that it's set in the Pyrenees, so the backdrop is stunning. I also just like being immersed in France for an hour, it's almost like being on holiday!
I'm a fan of these kind of mysteries anyway and I wonder if there's a subtle reference to the excellent film Mystic River in the title. So far there are some similarities. The fact that one of the lead detectives is fine looking woman also helps... and as per this genre, there are tantalising threads of sexual desire/romance lurking beneath the surface.
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