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People Like That Are the Only People Here: Canonical Babbling in Peed Onk
- GenresShort Stories
38 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1988
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Lorrie Moore
74 books2,682 followersLORRIE MOORE is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is the recipient of a Lannan Foundation fellowship, as well as the PEN/Malamud Award and the Rea Award for her achievement in the short story. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
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November 4, 2024
wow, så sterk fortelling skrevet på en så underholdende måte, ler og gråter om hverandre. elsker skrivestilen, veldig billedlig språk og gode metaforer og forestillinger, samtidig som hun får frem forferdeligheten i det😭 takk for den eric
July 19, 2025
People Like That Are The Only People Here is a short story that is included in Birds of America by Lorrie Moore, ranked 1050th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, where the order keeps changing, I took up this volume (actually, it is an audiobook) while it was still within the first 1,000, I will soon finish the collection – now for the plug, there are more than five thousand reviews of books and films on my blogs, if you are interested https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20...
8 out of 10
I have listened to a few of these stories from The Collection Birds of America https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... and liked them well enough
- Nonetheless, they are not on the level of Anton Chekhov
Before reading Lorrie Moore, we should finish Chekhov https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... Somerset Maugham, Raymond Carver, Gogol, Leo Tolstoy, and we are talking short stories
One of these tales has a lot about Romania in it, so here is something to get the spirits up, be curious, about the books that come from here – I am Romanian, though we see DNA from so many places, when we check…
“First you want to get hold of something to say, then you fudge up a plot of a story of some kind, and then you put in bits of things you have seen and heard round the place, and then you try and make it all sound sort of interesting or witty or funny or unusual or striking in some way. If you find some bit that isn't that, you work at it until it is, or at least as near it as you can get.” This is a quote from Magister Ludi Kingsley Amis
https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... I think Lorrie Moore passes this test, although I have not yet given my final verdict, there are a few more stories to finish
it might be in The Essays of Michel de Montaigne – as much as I have managed to go through, there are more than one thousand fabulous, somewhat demanding pages – that I have read about this ending idea, death really
the conclusion was that a life has to be virtuous, good, the human generous and more, but then even if you have had a ‘happy existence’, it still hangs on the ending https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20...
we could prolong it, there is this Ikigai formula, inspiration from the Japanese – then there is the use of hormones, and abuse in parts, but testosterone might help, it was in The Economist – and the golden rules
https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... so we have to keep busy, take it slow, rise from the table when eighty percent full – indeed, there are numerous studies that prove the benefits of fasting
keep good relations with friends – well, this has plenty of impact, the happiest humas are those who have these ties with family and friends, then we are the average of the five people we see for most of the time…
Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – I am on Goodreads as Realini Ionescu, at least for the moment, if I keep on expressing my views on Orange Woland aka TACO, it may be a short-lived presence
Also, maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the benefits from it, other than the exercise per se
There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know
As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/r...
Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works
‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’
8 out of 10
I have listened to a few of these stories from The Collection Birds of America https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... and liked them well enough
- Nonetheless, they are not on the level of Anton Chekhov
Before reading Lorrie Moore, we should finish Chekhov https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... Somerset Maugham, Raymond Carver, Gogol, Leo Tolstoy, and we are talking short stories
One of these tales has a lot about Romania in it, so here is something to get the spirits up, be curious, about the books that come from here – I am Romanian, though we see DNA from so many places, when we check…
“First you want to get hold of something to say, then you fudge up a plot of a story of some kind, and then you put in bits of things you have seen and heard round the place, and then you try and make it all sound sort of interesting or witty or funny or unusual or striking in some way. If you find some bit that isn't that, you work at it until it is, or at least as near it as you can get.” This is a quote from Magister Ludi Kingsley Amis
https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... I think Lorrie Moore passes this test, although I have not yet given my final verdict, there are a few more stories to finish
it might be in The Essays of Michel de Montaigne – as much as I have managed to go through, there are more than one thousand fabulous, somewhat demanding pages – that I have read about this ending idea, death really
the conclusion was that a life has to be virtuous, good, the human generous and more, but then even if you have had a ‘happy existence’, it still hangs on the ending https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20...
we could prolong it, there is this Ikigai formula, inspiration from the Japanese – then there is the use of hormones, and abuse in parts, but testosterone might help, it was in The Economist – and the golden rules
https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... so we have to keep busy, take it slow, rise from the table when eighty percent full – indeed, there are numerous studies that prove the benefits of fasting
keep good relations with friends – well, this has plenty of impact, the happiest humas are those who have these ties with family and friends, then we are the average of the five people we see for most of the time…
Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – I am on Goodreads as Realini Ionescu, at least for the moment, if I keep on expressing my views on Orange Woland aka TACO, it may be a short-lived presence
Also, maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the benefits from it, other than the exercise per se
There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know
As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/r...
Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works
‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’
October 22, 2025
This one really got me. Beautifully written, somehow witty while in the core heartbreaking. Great story.
August 13, 2026
this felt like a vintage mustard yellow to read
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