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Light as a feather As a water biscuit brushed with cottage cheese The brilliant Blanche Gourdin ( best stand up in France ) Wacky rom com with animated super ego Genre: self deprecating/ feminist neurotic

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Just found this on You Tube. From 1993. Remember it being dark and brilliant. Superbly written. Briers and Edumson www.youtube.com/watch?v=rspo...

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

Given we live in a world of hertier capitalism, it's no wonder the world of 19th century novels have started feel more familiar than 20th century books.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Getting back into Balzac is like lowering yourself gently & exquisitely into a hot bath. Everything becomes instantly familiar. But what archaic power is lost? What angular, atavistic thing is there in Hugo and Zola that is not in Balzac? Their vitality. Foreign to our world?

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

IN!

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

What does Spinoza mean when he invites us to take the body as a model? It is a matter of showing that the body surpasses the knowledge that we have of it, ‘and that thought likewise surpasses the consciousness we have of it’.

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on the brilliance of Germinal www.theguardian.com/books/2010/j...

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C'mon Elon, man up you podgy geek! www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8i5...

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Etineen Lantier, the protagonist of Germinal's story begins, as a child, in L"Assommoir. In his mother Gervaise's family is his sister Nana, who will be the eponymous subject of the famous novel. Interlacing characters like this, like Balzac, through the context of a great work is a fantastic way...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

What's the moral of all this? There is a dignity in labour. Male competition is an ugly and abject thing. Somewhere in this world awaits my true love. It's just a question of aligning ones values.

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Dream 1 Travelling all over African on 1930s trains. In competition with Simon Day/Fast Show for the job of cleaning and polishing the parquet floors of the carriage, which I loved. Day kept beating me to it and doing the work before I could. It was pathetic. Not the behaviour of a grown man.

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Often think it's not even the difficulty of translation with Brel that prevents UK pop people from getting him, more a question of the maturity of the songs. Brits, weaned on rock and pop culture often seem to live in an emotionally stunted world that stops at about 30 years old.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Ne me quitte pas is the worst most bombastic, melodramatic song of of an immense poet... Why is it people love these gushing dirges ( cf Hallelujah ) for the emotionally incontinent? & yeah, you have to be a francophone to get Brel Tough titties for the monoglots, coz you're really missing out.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I've been on opium (and paracetamol) for 4 weeks now. And it's great! They really should make it into sweets. Like coughdrops. Carry it around in a tubes for those times when life gets a bit too much.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

There's doc on ARTE tonight on British SOE operations in France during the War; and it's given me much desire to watch David Hare's Plenty, which I think is a great and film. And I think Streep is great in it. And the idea that life can only be lived, for certain people, intensely: c'est pas banal.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

On est bien peu de choses... www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ICF...

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