#jeremy leggatt

[sharry-arry-odd]

A couple of lines or eight pages, a Middle Eastern stamp or a suburban postmark . . . I hoard all these letters like treasure. One day I hope to fasten them end to end in a half-mile streamer, to float in the wind like a banner raised to the glory of friendship. It will keep the vultures at bay.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, by Jean-Dominique Bauby

[dossiersfrancais]

my to-read list of translated novels

the diving bell and the butterfly by jean-dominique bauby, translated by jeremy leggatt

night by elie wiesel, translated by marion wiesel

the diary of a young girl by anne frank, translated by susan massotty - in progress

the shadow of the wind by carlos ruiz zafón, translated by lucia graves

anna karenina by leo tolstoy, translated by richard pevear and larissa volokhonsky

the inferno by dante alighieri, translated by john ciardi

my brilliant friend by elena ferrante, translated by ann goldstein

[austentatious]

There comes a time when the heaping up of calamities brings on uncontrollable nervous laughter--when, after a final blow from fate, we decide to treat it all as a joke.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Jean-Dominique Bauby translated by Jeremy Leggatt

[eco-bill-olkowski]

Book Review: The Atheist Manifesto,

Book Review: The Atheist Manifesto,

The Case against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, 2005, 2011, by Michel Onfray, translated French by Jeremy Leggatt. Arcade Publishing, N.Y. 246 pp. By William Olkowski, Ph. D. -11/2012. Wow, what a blast against religious thinking by a detailed examination of the history and writings of the Big Three monotheistic western religions: Judaism, Islam and Christianity. Lest you forget, by-the-way,…

[tremendousdetectivetheorist]

Erm...happy Easter!

Jeremy Brett’s character is Maurice Sweetman :) and I think that’s Alison Leggatt as Lady Sweetman in the bunny ears. This play was called “The Workhorse Donkey” and there is some literature about it on the site; it’s described as a “north-of-England fertility-comedy”.

I found this photo on the same site where I found the pics from “As You Like It”.

[sharry-arry-odd]

I long to escape, but every time the chance arises, a leaden torpor prevents me from taking even a single step. I am petrified, mummified, vitrified. If just one door stands between me and freedom, I am incapable of opening it.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, by Jean-Dominique Bauby

[austentatious]

Today it seems to me that my whole life was nothing but a string of those small near misses: a race whose result we know beforehand but in which we fail to bet on the winner.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Jean-Dominique Bauby translated by Jeremy Leggatt

[sharry-arry-odd]

So I did not have time to commit this crime of lèse-majesté. As a punishment, I would have preferred to be transformed into M. Danglars, Franz d'Épinay, the Abbé Faria, or, at the very least, to copy out one thousand times: "I must not tamper with masterpieces." But the gods of literature and neurology decided otherwise.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, by Jean-Dominique Bauby

[sharry-arry-odd]

"Are you there, Jean-Do?" she asks anxiously over the air. And I have to admit that at times I do not know anymore.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, by Jean-Dominique Bauby

[sharry-arry-odd]

But to keep my mind sharp, to avoid descending into resigned indifference, I maintain a level of resentment and anger, neither too much nor too little, just as a pressure cooker has a safety valve to keep it from exploding.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, by Jean-Dominique Bauby

[sharry-arry-odd]

Like the bath, my old clothes could easily bring back poignant, painful memories. But I see in the clothing a symbol of continuing life. And proof that I still want to be myself. If I must drool, I may as well drool on cashmere.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, by Jean-Dominique Bauby

[austentatious]

Had I been blind and deaf, or does it take the harsh light of disaster to show a person's true nature?

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Jean-Dominique Bauby translated by Jeremy Leggatt

[austentatious]

...regret for a vanished past and, above all, remorse for lost opportunities.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Jean-Dominique Bauby translated by Jeremy Leggatt

[austentatious]

Mithra-Grandchamp is the woman we were unable to love, the chances we failed to seize, the moments of happiness we allowed to drift away.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Jean-Dominique Bauby translated by Jeremy Leggatt

[austentatious]

I need to feel strongly, to love and to admire, just as desperately as I needed to breathe.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Jean-Dominique Bauby translated by Jeremy Leggatt

[austentatious]

They carried out as best as they could their delicate mission: to ease our burden a little when our crosses bruised our shoulders too painfully.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Jean-Dominique Bauby translated by Jeremy Leggatt