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Geoff
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The gist of what Shklovsky is telling me here (in very circuitous ways) is "If you haven't read Tristram Shandy and Eugene Onegin you don't know jack.
— Apr 26, 2013 06:15PM
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Geoff
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A long passage on Eichenbaum reconstructing his Tolstoy manuscript during the Siege of Leningrad, leading into a section on the Hellenistic idea of Unity. Lovely digressions...
— Apr 26, 2013 06:52AM
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Geoff
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Subjects already touched on:
-blizzards of flower petals on mountains in Yalta
-the fairytale structure of Gogol's Overcoat
-Tolstoy's imitation of Sterne's "narrative knots"
-Socrates listening to cicadas
-"The Bronze Horseman" and incomprehensibility as a means of rejuvenating perception
-The writer simultaneously as bee & honeycomb
-Futurists burning pages of books as they read to stay warm thru winter
— Apr 25, 2013 06:54AM
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-blizzards of flower petals on mountains in Yalta
-the fairytale structure of Gogol's Overcoat
-Tolstoy's imitation of Sterne's "narrative knots"
-Socrates listening to cicadas
-"The Bronze Horseman" and incomprehensibility as a means of rejuvenating perception
-The writer simultaneously as bee & honeycomb
-Futurists burning pages of books as they read to stay warm thru winter
