Classical Music, Poetry and stuff

[Stavros]

If I had been able to read it I would tell you, but it is to my mind the kind of writing that alienates the reader by not letting them into the narrative. That doesn't mean writing has to be simple and accessible, you could hardly say that of Joyce, for example, but Lessing to me writes rather like Irish Murdoch, with cement rather than ink. A friend of mine, an English graduate and feminist can't stand Lessing and has nothing good to say about The Golden Notebook. But we both used to know another woman who did like it and Lessing in general, which only proves that the reputations of contemporary authors are harder to manage than dead ones, although Lessing has now gone that way, as do we all.

[Prospero]

Dead reckoning takes over, eh...

[Stavros]

The Door, by Magda Szabo.
First published in 1987 in Hungarian when the writer was 70 years old, I was recommended this book by an Hungarian I met, and I was not disappointed (by either). It is a complex story of a writer who hires a caretaker who more or less takes over her life while trying to conceal the truth of her own. The truths that do emerge about the life of the caretaker (Emerence, who hides her life behind a door), present a tragic figure whose survival through the ages of Hungarian history since the 1930s has relied on her making her indispensable to others, and apparrently never refusing to do anything for them. The style, in English, is not complex, but the story is brilliantly told, and I discovered after reading this that the controversial director, Istvan Szabo (no relation) made a film of The Door in English, with Helen Mirren as Emerence, although the DVD is only available on Amazon in a German edition (as Hinter den Tur).
My knowledge of Hungarian literature is limited to Lukacs, Krasznahorkai and a poor novel also recommended called Embers, by Sandor Morai. I understand Magda Szabo is highly thought of in Hungary.

[bluesoul]

i wrote a poem just now i wish to share with the community:

my penis
floating in the sky
straight into your mouth
my penis flies
open your mouth wide
let my penis inside
into your mouth
the penis will lie

penis: why do you love me so?
penis: what have i done to deserve you so?

thank you penis. thank you for coming home
where you will stay
in my mouth, forever
because that is where you call home
inside my mouth

[bluesoul]

this is poetic:

[Stavros]

i wrote a poem just now i wish to share with the community:

Your talent is clearly wasted on this thread, had you written this on a brick wall you might even now be cashing in your cheque and ordering that two-door Ford Tango. Banksy better watch out!

[Jackal]

Dead reckoning takes over, eh...

Do you love the Bard? I never knew your username to be a word inspired by Shakespeare until I saw it was today's word of the day: http://wordsmith.org/words/today.html

[bluesoul]

thank you stavros. here is another great piece of classical music. first published in the early 2000 when the artist was in his 50s. i was recommended the youtube link by another artist and i was not disappointed. i don't think you will either. lend him your ear

[buttslinger]

The first time I ran into Stavros, he shot down a post I made on the movie thread about John Holmes. Whatever Stavros thinks about a book or film, I generally think the opposite. In fact, I think the opposite of Stavros on pretty much everything! Since that time I have come to appreciate Stav as a bit of a classic himself. I picture him at the Diogenes Club reading a book in complete silence.


Here's my addition to the thread, it's a picture of my face photoshopped into a lovely young lady I named TORPEDOES and posted on Alt.com years back, when women got everything free there. I posted the most hideous creature I could imagine, there was a guy from Pennsylvania who kept offering me money, and there were SEVERAL English Gentlemen who came a' courtin me.

[Jackal]

From her Twitter page: