The taste of Anna and red wine. So lovely to drink and drink. Somehow without her sweet nectar the wine is not so fine. Ohne…
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No Jane Austen heroines for me all prose and no poetry, reason and norm insistent in every dawn and a faultless sense of society, infallible…
1 CommentThis is true. Despite her recent honours, Austrians a group do not like Jelinek. Her dark and unpleasant view of human nature is inimical to their good-natured existence.
4 CommentsOne of the best descriptions of a passionate woman I’ve read. A première vue, she seemed so immaculate, her body anyway, like a Chinese reed,…
Leave a CommentJohn Cassavetes on creativity: you have to fight every day to stop censoring yourself. and you never have anyone else to blame when you do.…
Leave a CommentThe Intellectual Charms of Women The older I grew the more I became attached to the intellectual charms of women. With the sensualist, the contrary…
Leave a CommentBig news in Austria over the last week has been the awarding of the Nobel Prize for literature to their citizen Elfriede Jelinek. A controversial writer even in Austria, this is a brave and forward-looking decision from the Stockholm-based jury.
Jelinek is no New York Times bestselling author. But not content with their president’s failed commandeering of the United Nations, many Americans would like to put the Nobel prize jurors in their place and assure a more level playing field for American writers.
Leave a CommentIf you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft. some days you just look up from your book and find that the…
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