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Bertrand is 80% done with The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
At that time I somehow had a presentiment, which I so often felt later on, that we didn't have the right to open a book if we weren't committed to reading all of them. With every line you broke off a piece of the world. Before books the world was unharmed and perhaps in time it would be whole again.
Apr 23, 2020 04:51AM Add a comment
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

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Bertrand is on page 3 of 237 of The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
'Whenever I think back to my home, where there's no one left now, I can see that in times gone by things must have been different. In those days people knew (or suspected) that they had death inside them like the stone inside a fruit. Children had a small one in them and grown-ups a big one. Women had it in their womb and men in their chest. They had it and it gave them a particular dignity and quiet pride.'
Apr 05, 2020 01:36AM Add a comment
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

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Bertrand is on page 236 of 271 of Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927–1939
While it is appropriate to use the word mysticism when speaking of"joy before death" and its practice, this implies no more than an affective resemblance between this practice and those of the religions of Asia or Europe. There is no reason to link any presuppositions concerning an alleged deeper reality with a joy that has no object other than immediate life.
Nov 26, 2016 02:41PM Add a comment
Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927–1939

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Bertrand is on page 163 of 416 of The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
This is really not all that good, or is it? I knew I should have stayed away from the "Title (Serie's name, #volume number)" kinda model. Or went all the way, and picked "Taken by the Billionaire Werewolf (Kingwood Pack #1)" instead.
Nov 11, 2016 09:14AM Add a comment
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)

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Bertrand is on page 16 of 256 of After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism (Theories of Representation and Difference)
I am only one essay in the book and I can already tell it is going to be excellent. If I was to teach Avantgarde 101, I reckon this "Hidden Dialectic" would be required reading for the first lesson!
Aug 13, 2016 12:27PM Add a comment
After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism (Theories of Representation and Difference)

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Bertrand is starting Mansfield Park
'Can I speak with you, Fanny, for a few minutes? ' said he.
'Yes, certainly.'
'I want to consult. I want your opinion.'
'My opinion!' she cried, shrinking from such a compliment, highly as it gratified her.
Jun 27, 2016 11:16AM Add a comment
Mansfield Park

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Bertrand is starting The Legacy of Edward W. Said
I love the smell of jargon in the morning!
Jun 13, 2016 05:53PM Add a comment
The Legacy of Edward W. Said

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Bertrand is starting In the Prison of Her Skin
An exhilarating counter-point to d'Annunzio and his treacly sirup of words! Short, brutish and nasty sentences, full of heart-felt rancour, of self-conscious mediocrity, of insecurities sublimated into criminal pulsions!
May 24, 2016 08:03AM Add a comment
In the Prison of Her Skin

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Bertrand is starting The Child Of Pleasure
I believe the name is "aspirational fiction".
May 20, 2016 06:46AM Add a comment
The Child Of Pleasure

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Bertrand is reading The Generation of 1914
Not yet a quarter through, but I can already tell that (despite the fugly cover art) this is one exceptional book...
Feb 17, 2015 12:28AM Add a comment
The Generation of 1914

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Bertrand is on page 175 of 432 of The Abyssinian
"Roses are red,
Violet are blue,
Sugar is Sweet
And so are you"
Jean Baptiste Poncet, 1699

Goodies are good, Baddies are bad, priests are seniles, nobles are haughty, arabs greedy but the third estate is full of selfmade geniuses whose oppression has fostered the greatest gifts! Gawd this is so bad it hurts. Its only redeeming purpose is to try my willpower.
Apr 18, 2014 08:07AM Add a comment
The Abyssinian

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