#shelley mann

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Roxy Music Album Covers

Roxy Music (1972), photographed by Karl Stoecker and featuring model Kari-Ann Moller, who later married Chris Jagger, brother of Mick Jagger.

For Your Pleasure (1973), photographed by Karl Stoecker and featuring Ferry's then girlfriend, model Amanda Lear.

Stranded (1973), photographed by Karl Stoecker and featuring Playboy model Marilyn Cole.

Country Life (1974), photographed by Eric Boman featuring Eveline Grunwald and Constanze Karoli. Bryan met them in Portugal and persuaded them to do the photo shoot as well as to help him translate the words to the song "Bitter-Sweet" into German.

Siren (1975), album cover conceived by Antony Price and photographed by Graham Hughes, features Ferry's then girlfriend, model Jerry Hall on rocks near South Stack, Anglesey.

Manifesto (1978), album cover created by Bryan Ferry with fashion designer Antony Price and American TV actress Hilary Thompson, and photographed by Neil Kirk.

Flesh + Blood (1980), album cover was conceived by Peter Saville and photographed by Neil Kirk, and featuring Aimee Stephenson and Olympian Shelley Mann. Roslyn Bolton was the model on the back.

Avalon (1982), album cover designed by Peter Saville and photographed by Neil Kirk. Brian Ferry's girlfriend (and soon to be wife) Lucy Helmore featured on the cover looking out over Lough Ugga Beag in Connemara, wearing a medieval helmet with a hooded Merlin Falcon perched on her gloved hand, evoking King Arthur's last journey to the mysterious land of Avalon.

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The First Olympic Champion in 100m Butterfly

Although the butterfly style was emerging from breaststroke since the 1930s, it was not officially recognised as a separate Olympic event until after 1952 Olympics in the 1956 games in Melbourne. When Shelley Mann of USA won the inaugural 100m butterfly (men swam the 200m butterfly) her path to victory was longer than most. Shelley, at the age of six, was a victim of one of the horrific…

[onefootin1941]

Jimmy Stewart and Shelly Winters, Winchester ‘73.

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What's your favorite book?

There's too many to chose from!

If we are talking fiction, my current top 5 are: Ein Leben by Guy de Maupassant, East of Eden by John Steinbeck, A Dog's Heart by Michail Bulgakow, Cecile by Theodor Fontane and Gone with the wind by Margaret Mitchell

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L'épisode "Le prince de ces dames".

[aliciavance4228]

One Hundred Books

Decided to make this list in order to include in one post all the books that I found to be worth reading and would recommend to others. They're not in a specific order:

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Dubliners by James Joyce

A Jounal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

Art of War by Sun Tzu

The Trial by Kafka

Metamorphosis by Kafka

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Dracula by Bram Stocker

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

1984 by George Orwell

Animal Farm by George Orwell

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Dune by Frank Herbert

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

Crime and Punishment by Dostoievski

Notes from the Underground by Dostoievski

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Pianist by Władisław Szpilman

Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann

The Idiot by Dostoievski

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Insulted and Humiliated by Dostoievski

Foundation by Isaac Asimov

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Moby-Dick by Herman Meville

The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoievski

The Call of Cthulhu by Lovecraft

Dagon and other Macabre Tells by Lovecraft

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar

The Shining by Stephen King

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

The Enlightened Cave by Max Blecher

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

The God Factory by Karel Čapek

The Tongue Set Free by Elias Canetti

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison

No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Selected Poems by Jorge Louis Borges

The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai

The Stranger by Albert Camus

The Plague by Albert Camus

Carrie by Stephen King

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Notre Dame of Paris by Victor Hugo

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

The Iliad by Homer

The Odyssey by Homer

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Tell-Tale Heart and other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

V for Vendetta by Alan Moore

The Red and the Black by Stendhal

The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis

It by Stephen King

Pet Sematary by Stephen King

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy

La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils

Pride and Predjudice by Jane Austen

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

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James Stewart and Shelley Winters in Anthony Mann’s WINCHESTER ‘73 (1950) #DailyStewart

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A prompt for you - headcannon / writing / poetry - I'll leave it up to you.

If Gale were to come to our world - What would his favourite books be?

Thank you for the ask!

I guess he would be fascinated with every book in existence - fiction, non-fiction, academic literature etc. But regarding fiction I think he would, in time, start developing preferences.

As he is a very Faustian figure, I guess all the stories about Faust would pick his interest. "Historia von D. Johann Fausten", Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus", Goethe's "Faust" and even T. Mann's "Doctor Faustus". Also M. Shelley's "Frankenstein", but Gale would appalled by Frankenstein's selfishness and arrogance.

Gale would definitely enjoy love poetry. Yet I think he would be enthralled not by the traditional verses about unrequited love, but by the type of poetry which was rare in the past and not so popular in the present. I mean poems about physical love, which make this love elevated and beautiful. My favourite (and, I hope, would be Gale's favourite) are "Roman Elegies" by Goethe. Sensuality and beauty in this work are unique in my opinion.

Turning to non-fiction. I will write about parallels between Gale and Plato in a separate post, but for now I'll just say that Gale would be intrigued by Plato's "Symposium", a work about love. Where love elevates not the object, but the subject of love.

That's what I think about Gale's favourite books (a very biased opinion, as most of these are among my favourites).

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hii would you have any book recs similar to the carnivorous lamb? just finished it recently and i literally cannot stop thinking about it......

wish i could rec u something that will hit as hard as carnivorous lamb does. but i cant. nothing can compare (in my opinion) but i can rec u some books depending on what u liked best/what u enjoyed in carnivorous lamb:

incest:

gemini by michel tournier - hard to get into but very worth it

house of incest by anais nin - short but so good u'll tear your hair out afterwards

ada or ardor: a family chronicle by vladimir nabokov - cant believe nabokov invented real love w this one

catholicism:

the sparrow by mary doria russell - book of all time & although i obv wouldn't call it a catholic book, i still think someone that liked carnivorous lamb would love this.

concerning the eccentricities of cardinal pirelli by ronald firbank - currently reading this & dont yet fully know what to make of it but its definitely interesting enough to check out.

fascism:

(bit of a disclaimer: none of these are specifically about spanish fascism. sorry. if you're really interested in the franco regime u could read george orwell's "homage to catalonia" but other than that i got nothing for u there)

fear and misery in the third reich by bertholt brecht & the resistable rise of arturo ui (also by brecht) - this is me pushing my brecht agenda (even tho these r plays and not technically books). love brecht's depictions of fascism though, esp in fear and misery

on the frontier: a melodrama in three acts by isherwood & auden - another play

death in venice by thomas mann - alright so this one's a bit tricky. its not technically about fascism (it was written in 1912) but i've seen a number of academic essays that make a case for reading it that way -> the degeneration of europe into fascism. in any case, great book, great prose and although its not actually incestuous, it v obviously plays with the theme of incest

fathers:

incest: from a "journal of love": the unexpurgated diary of anais nin - a classic.

winter of artifice by anais nin - no one got it quite like she did

mathilda by mary shelley - anon, listen to this: "I copied his last letter and read it again and again. Sometimes it made me weep; and at other [times] I repeated with transport those words,—"One day I may claim her at your hands." I was to be his consoler, his companion in after years."

dreams of clytemnestra by dacia maraini - a play again. but trust me on this one, it'll drive u insane.

mothers:

milk fed by melissa broder - actually havent read this one but my (redacted) loves it and it does sound rlly interesting (also i dont know any other books specifically about mothers... sad.)

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How many of these "Top 100 Books to Read" have you read?

(633) 1984 - George Orwell

(616) The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

(613) The Catcher In The Rye - J.D. Salinger

(573) Crime And Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

(550) Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

(549) The Adventures Of Tom And Huck - Series - Mark Twain

(538) Moby-Dick - Herman Melville

(534) One Hundred Years Of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

(527) To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee

(521) The Grapes Of Wrath - John Steinbeck

(521) Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

(492) Pride And Prejudice - Jane Austen

(489) The Lord Of The Rings - Series - J.R.R. Tolkien

(488) Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

(480) Ulysses - James Joyce

(471) Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

(459) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

(398) The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

(396) Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

(395) To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

(382) War And Peace - Leo Tolstoy

(382) The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway

(380) The Sound And The Fury - William Faulkner

(378) Alice's Adventures In Wonderland - Series - Lewis Carroll

(359) Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

(353) Heart Of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

(352) Middlemarch - George Eliot

(348) Animal Farm - George Orwell

(346) Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

(334) Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut

(325) Les Misérables - Victor Hugo

(320) Harry Potter - Series - J.K. Rowling

(320) The Chronicles Of Narnia - Series - C.S. Lewis

(317) Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

(308) Lord Of The Flies - William Golding

(306) Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison

(289) The Golden Bowl - Henry James

(276) Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov

(266) Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

(260) The Count Of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

(255) The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Series - Douglas Adams

(252) The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Laurence Sterne

(244) Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

(237) Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackery

(235) The Trial - Franz Kafka

(233) Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner

(232) The Call Of The Wild - Jack London

(232) Emma - Jane Austen

(229) Beloved - Toni Morrison

(228) Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

(224) A Passage To India - E.M. Forster

(215) Dune - Frank Herbert

(215) A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man - James Joyce

(212) The Stranger - Albert Camus

(209) One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey

(209) The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

(206) Dracula - Bram Stoker

(205) The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

(197) A Confederacy Of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

(193) Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

(193) The Age Of Innocence - Edith Wharton

(193) The History Of Tom Jones, A Foundling - Henry Fielding

(192) Under The Volcano - Malcolm Lowry

(190) The Odyssey - Homer

(189) Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

(188) In Search Of Lost Time - Marcel Proust

(186) Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie

(185) An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser

(182) The Book Thief - Markus Zusak

(180) Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse

(179) The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann

(178) Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe

(178) Tropic Of Cancer - Henry Miller

(176) The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton

(176) On The Road - Jack Kerouac

(175) The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

(173) The Giver - Lois Lowry

(172) Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

(172) A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

(171) Charlotte's Web - E.B. White

(171) The Ambassadors - Henry James

(170) Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace

(167) The Complete Stories And Poems - Edgar Allen Poe

(166) Ender's Saga - Series - Orson Scott Card

(165) In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

(164) The Wings Of The Dove - Henry James

(163) The Adventures Of Augie March - Saul Bellow

(162) As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner

(161) The Hunger Games - Series - Suzanne Collins

(158) Anne Of Greene Gables - L.M. Montgomery

(157) Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

(157) Neuromancer - William Gibson

(156) The Help - Kathryn Stockett

(156) A Song Of Ice And Fire - George R.R. Martin

(155) The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford

(154) The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

(153) I, Claudius - Robert Graves

(152) Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys

(151) The Portrait Of A Lady - Henry James

(150) The Death Of The Heart - Elizabeth Bowen

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Omega Radio for December 29, 2021; #292.

Performance: “Night Is Blues”

The Counts: “Magic Ride”

Gene Harris: “Koko & Lee Roe”

John Dankworth & His Orchestra: “Return From The Ashes”

Jon Derek Nicholson: “Steely”

Little Royal & The Swingmasters: “Razor Blade”

Ramsey Lewis: “Tambura”

Sammy Nestico: “Shore Line Drive”

Isaac Hayes: “Cafe Regio’s”

Jacky Nordano & Robert Hermel: “Accrocs”

Johanna Group: “Desert Weather”

Marvin Gaye: “T Plays It Cool”

Eddie Russ: “Salem Avenue”

Chicago Gangsters: “Ganster Boogie”

Color Us People Band: “A Day Without Your Love”

George Duke: “Prepare Yourself”

Ian Carr’s Nucleus: “Southern Roots And Celebration”

Milton Floyd: “I’m A Shadow”

New Birth: “Got To Get A Knutt”

Pierre-Alain Dahan & Mat Camison: “Rythmiques No. 8”

Side Effect: “There She Goes Again”

Sunship Ensemble: “Inca”

The Village Callers: “Hector”

David T. Walker: “I Get High On You”

Gene McDaniels: “Jagger The Dagger”

Hal Galper: “Convocation”

Terry Callier: “You Don’t Care”

Tracks: “If I Am Not Mistaken”

Brick: “Southern Sunset”

Dyke & The Blazers: “Let A Woman Be A Woman, Let A Man Be A Man”

Enrico Pieranunzi: “The Day After The Silence”

Harvey Mason: “Modaji”

Jacky Giordano: “Cloudy Night”

John Leach: “Allegro For Martenot (A)”

Tony Gragory: “What’ll I Do”

BRF Studio Group: “Let’s Go Again”

F. Rolland & J.C. Pierric: “Couic Ah”

Herb Ellis & Remo Palmier: “Groove Merchant”

Sylvano Santorio: “Summer Sketch”

Clarence Reid: “Nobody But You Babe”

Shelley Manne: “Infinity”

Freddie Hubbard: “Red Clay”

Bonus vinyl treasures, crate-digging, sampling volume.

[wouldadepressedpersonmakethis]

top portrayals:

LIZZY

[12] Lily James

[9] Keira Knightley, Jennifer Lawrence

[5] Imogen Poots

[4] Maisie Williams

[3] Sarah Bolger, Jenna Louise Coleman, Romola Garai, Bella Heathcote, Amber Heard, Saoirse Ronan, Emily VanCamp, Alicia Vikander

[2] Rose Byrne, Nina Dobrev, Taissa Farmiga, Sarah Gadon, Karen Gillan, Eva Green, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Anna Kendrick, Katie McGrath, Leighton Meester, Sophie Turner

[5] Matthew Goode, Jared Padalecki

[4] Jude Law, Aaron Paul

[3] Nathaniel Buzolic, Bradley Cooper, Hugh Dancy, John Krasinski, Landon Liborion, Miles Teller

[2] Jonas Armstrong, Justin Bartha, Douglas Booth, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Sam Claflin, Charlie Cox, Chace Crawford, Charlie Day, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert Downey Jr., Martin Freeman, Ryan Gosling, Tom Hardy, Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Hunnum, Jake Johnson, Harry Lloyd, James McAvoy, Mads Mikkelsen, Julian Morris, Colin Morgan, David Morrisey, Dylan O’Brien, Evan Peters, Michael Pitt, Eddie Redmayne, Andrew Scott, Bill Skarsgard, Ben Whishaw

KATE THE GREAT

[ 3 ] Astrid Berges-Frisby, Bella Heathcote [ 2 ] Sarah Gadon, Felicity Jones

KATE AA

[ 8 ] Michael Fassbender [ 8 ] Keira Knightley [ 7 ] Tom Hardy

[ 6 ] Emilia Clarke, Phoebe Tonkin [ 6 ] Jensen Ackles, Richard Armitage, Henry Cavill

[ 5 ] Emily Blunt, Nina Dobrev [ 5 ] Nathaniel Buzolic, Sam Claflin, Luke Evans, Chris Hemsworth

[ 4 ] Jenna Louise Coleman, Michelle Dockery, Margot Robbie, Emma Watson [ 4 ] Ben Barnes, Benedict Cumberbatch, Chris Evans, Liam Hemsworth, Jared Padalecki, Bill Skarsgard, Sebastian Stan, Toby Stevens

[ 3 ] Candace Accola, Natalie Dormer, Jessica Brown Findaly, Claire Holt, Scarlett Johanson, Freya Mavor, Katie McGrath, Natalie Portman, Charlize Theron, Emma Watson [ 3 ] Robert Carlyle, Nikolai Coster-Waldau, Jaime Dornan, Theo James, Joseph Morgan, Julian Morris, Evan Peters, Aidan Turner

[ 2 ] Chloe Bennet, Shelley Hennig, Lena Headey, Amber Heard, Lily James, Leighton Meester, Emilie de Ravin, Krysten Ritter, Sophie Turner, Evan Rachel Wood [ 2 ] Aneurin Barnard, Douglas Booth, Charlie Cox, Charles Dance, Hugh Dancy, Scott Eastwood, Mark Gatiss, Tom Hiddleston, Michiel Huisman, Harry Lloyd, Richard Madden, James Norton, Colin O’Donoghue, Daniel Sharman, Milo Ventimiglia

LAUREN

[ 7 ] Natalie Dormer [ 6 ] Romola Garai [ 5 ] Emma Stone [ 4 ] Crystal Reed, Holland Roden [ 3 ] Karen Gillan, Rosamund Pike, Emilie de Ravin, Eleanor Tommilson, Charity Wakefield

TINA RAE

[ 5 ] Ben Whishaw [ 3 ] Billie Piper [ 3 ] Dylan O’Brian, Colin O'Donoghue [ 2 ] Alexis Bledel, Laura Carmicheal, Sarah Paulson, Lara Pulver, Taylor Swift, Anna Torv [ 2 ] JJ Field, Freddie Highmore, Josh Hutcherson, Gabriel Mann, Dan Stevens, Max Theriot

JENN

2: Cava Delevingne, Zoey Deutch, Phoebe Tonkin, Lea Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, Suki Waterhouse, Emma Watson

3: Tom Hiddleston 2: Daane Dehann, Chris Hemsworth, Luke Mitchell

[talesofpassingtime]

Essential Readings for a Serious Writer

(revised)

Literature is a dialogue between story-tellers that has gone on for about six thousand years. Unless an author knows the conversation thus far, it is nearly impossible for that poorly read author to contribute anything meaningful to the dialogue. Serious writing requires serious reading. All great authors have been great readers.

Pre-19th Century

Homer, The Iliad, The Odyssey

Sophocles, works

Aeschylus, works

Euripides, works

Virgil, The Aeneid

Boccaccio, The Decameron

Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Cressida

1001 Nights

Dante, The Divine Comedy

Cervantes, Don Quixote

Shakespeare

King James Bible

Spencer, The Fairie Queen

Milton, Paradise Lost, Paradise Found, Samson Agonistes

19th Century

Goethe, Faust, Sorrows of Young Werther

British Poets - Byron, Shelley, Keats, Coleridge, Burns, Blake, Wordsworth, Browning, Tennyson, Yeats

Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

Gogol, Dead Souls

Turgenyev, Fathers and Sons

Dostoevsky, works

Tolstoy, works

Hardy, works

Dickens, works

Galdos, Fortunata & Jacinta

Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot), Works

Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

Jane Austin, works

Melville, works

Hawthorne, works

Poe, works

Stoker, Dracula

Hugo, works

Dumas, works

Zola, works

Balzac, works

Flaubert, works

Scott, works

20th Century

Woolf, works

Joyce, works

Lawrence, works

Hardy, works

Proust, La Recherche de la Temps Perdu

Musil, Man without Qualities, Young Torless

Mann, works

Boll, works

Nabokov, works

TS Eliot, works

Martin Amis, works

Gaddis, works

Pynchon, works

Durrell, works

Byatt, works

Burroughs, works

Faulkner, works

Hemingway, works

Fitzgerald, works

O'Neill, works

Anouilh, works

Grass, works

Garcia Marquez, works

Chekov, works

Ibsen, works

Shaw, works

Shepard, works

Fante, works

Maugham, works

Delillo, works

McElroy, Women and Men

Kundera, works

Anderson, Winesburg Ohio

Henry Miller, works

Barnes, works

Broch, works

Nadas, works

Genet, works

Gide, works

Tennessee Williams, works

Bellow, works

A few words of advice:

Reading chronologically makes later allusions to earlier works available. Know your Homer, your Aeschylus, your Virgil. Lots of things won’t make sense at all if you don’t.

Reading all the important works of literature is the work of a lifetime, so don’t fret about how few you’ve read. What matters most is what you read next, because nothing will influence your writing more than what you are currently reading. 

Reading is writing.

Memorize Shakespeare, the plays, the sonnets, the poems. You won’t regret a word. Nothing is more important to a writer’s education than Shakespeare.

I am only including works and authors I have read in this list. It will continue to evolve as I continue to read. I’m sure there are many thousands of important authors still unlisted. As well, sometimes we learn the best lessons from terrible writers. Reading is too important to only read well.

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Autumn Reading Challange

My favorite season of the year has arrived! With pumpkin-flavored cookies and flavored green teas and black turtlenecks matched with jackets, it's time for a new reading list. I didn't have much success in the summer, that's why I hope that everything will go better in the autumn. I tried to choose books that keep the atmosphere specific to the spooky season, but I'm not a fan of modern horror, so my selection is more towards mystery, drama, gloomy, spleen.

I will soon start my last year of my master's degree, so I am returning to an old passion of mine, philosophy. I tend to immerse myself too much in work for whole months, so I work with myself now to make reading my quiet moment that I need every day. Wish me luck!

From: 01.09.2023 - 30.11.2023 (European calendar)

Fiction

‌Dead Souls // Nikolai Gogol

‌The Red Room // August Strindberg

‌The Gothic Rooms // August Strindberg

‌Haunted // Chuck Palahniuk

‌In Cold Blood // Truman Capote

‌The Call of Cthulhu // H.P. Lovecraft

‌Slaughterhouse-Five // Kurt Vonnegut

‌And Then There Were None // Agatha Christie

‌Human Lost and Other Short Stories// Osamu Dazai

‌Confessions of Felix Krull // Thomas Mann

‌The Demons // Fyodor Dostoevsky

‌The Virgin Suicides // Jeffrey Eugenides

‌Artificial Paradises // Charles Baudelaire

‌The Metamorphosis and other stories // Franz Kafka

‌The Devil's Elixirs // E. T. A. Hoffmann

‌The Crime of Olga Arbyelina // Andreï Makine

‌Carrie // Stephen King

‌Frankenstein // Mary Shelley

‌Fahrenheit 451 // Ray Bradbury

A selection of nuvellas // Anton Cekhov

Philosophy

Dialogues // Plato

Metaphysics // Aristotel

Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics Article Talk // Immanuel Kant

Logic // Immanuel Kant

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus // Ludwig Wittgenstein

[elektrischemaidchen]

Oh Horus, Horus.

Das Herzstück und der rote Faden unseres kleinen Projekts. Eigentlich sollte dieser Song ursprünglich das Treffen der Shelleys mit Byron in Genf skizzieren, dann wurde der Text dann aber doch zu ernst. Herausgekommen ist dann schlussendlich unsere ganz persönliche Frankenstein- Geschichte.

Und für diese Geschichte müssen wir etwas weiter ausholen.

Zum einen ist unser Horus ein Prometheus, geschaffen, aus all jenen Künstlern, die wir lieben. (Also, geistig wie auch ...optisch ;)). Und da wir alte "Rocky Horror Show" Fans sind, gibt's natürlich auch ne Lende und ein Gesäss. Muss ja.

Zum anderen:

Unser Frl. Drosselmeyer sammelte in ihrer Studentenzeit Dagureeotypien, Postkarten und Bilder aus dem 19. Jahrhundert und pflasterte ihre Wände damit. Darunter befand sich auch das Bild eines unbekannten Mannes um 1860, der sich sofort in unsere Herzen stahl. Wir nannten ihn Horace. Viele Jahre stand Horace auf Frl. Drosselmeyers Nachttisch, danach kamen lebende Männer in ihr Leben und Horace wanderte mal ins Bücherregal, mal in die Küche...aber er war trotzdem immer da. Heute steht Horace als Muse im Arbeitszimmer und begleitet den kreativen Prozess der Maidchen mit seinen strengen Augen.

Letztendlich lieferte dann ein Kinoabend mit dem glorreichen Film "Lisa Frankenstein" die letzte zündene Inspiration. Selten hat sich das kleine komische Maidchen -Herz so verstanden gefühlt. 🫀

(Separated at birth: Lisa Frankenstein & Herzensbrecher Horace)

So wurde dann aus "Prometheus" (der Arbeitstitel) unser erster Horus-Song. Und Mary, Percy und George Gordon wanderten wieder ins Ideenbuch. Wir begegnen ihnen kurz wieder, bei "Genf mittelscharf", aber dazu später mehr.

Funfact 1: Die erste Strophe begann mit "Frl. Drosselmeyer an ihrem Schreibtisch sitzt", wurde dann aber - aufgrund des viel zu langen Satzes - in die "Ich Perspektive " umgelagert.

Funfact 2: Obwohl Horace die Muse dieses Songs ist, stammt der Name Horus von einem Textdreher "Ohhh, ähh, Chorus?" Das fanden wir so bedeutungsschwanger, dass wir dann endlich einen Namen, wohl aus göttlicher Eingebung, hatten.