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[02 Aug 2009|08:38pm] |
So, this morning I half-glanced at Frank O'Hara's Lunch Poems on the coffee table and for a second I thought-- what if the "Lunch" in the title referred to the poems themselves rather than the circumstances of their composition. I've been thinking about this all day: if various poems, books, etc. were food, what sort of food would they be?
O'Hara's lunch poems would be, I think, black and white cookies, quintessentially postwar New York, popular, animated by contrast. Marx is roasted root vegetables, turnips or, more likely beets. Langland is, obviously, a Ploughman's, Margery Kempe is rice pudding with a twist, cardamon pods, perhaps. Troilus and Criseyde is figs, Romeo and Juliet is blancmange or anything with almonds, really, the Canterbury Tales are some sort of roast fowl, I believe, though I'm not quite as clear on that, the Sherlock Holmes stories are licorice allsorts, and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is most certainly sushi (uni nigri comes to mind).
And so on and so forth. I have to go play quizzo now, but what do you think?
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[18 May 2009|11:15am] |
Dear LJ braintrust:
I'm looking for a place to stay in Berlin for two nights at the end of next week. My budget is about 75 euros per night, and hostels are fine (though I'd prefer not to pay that much if I am going to stay in one). Any suggestions?
Actually-- if we're in for a penny let's go in for a pound: you have 48 hours in Berlin. You are me. You like churches, beer, quirky museums and food markets. You don't have very much money. What do you do?
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[12 May 2009|10:20am] |
LOT 1974: Stuart family. An Extensive and interesting Collection of Portraits of Royal Personages of the House of Stuart, Statesmen, Naval, and Military Commanders and Clergy; Views of Cities, Towns, Castles, Churches, Ancient Buildings, Arms, curious initial letters, etc. with descriptions in MANUSCRIPT very neatly written, also sundry Miscellaneous Papers and Cuttings relating to the Stuart Family, mounted and arranged in 2 vols. blue morocco, gilt edges, and a parcel of MS. Papers and cutting sufficient to form an additional volume.
This curious collection, relative to the Stuarts, must have been the result of immense labour and enthusiastic feeling for the subject, nothing but the stimulus of ardent devotion could have accomplished the task. The whole comprises a collection of facts, historical and biographical, for which it would seem to have required a life's application merely to have read the volumes from whence the extracts have been obtained, to say nothing of the time required for transcription.
(It sold for 5p15s6d, or about £4,447.92 in today's money. A fifteenth century manuscript of Ambrosius sold in the same sale for 8 shillings 6 pence. By contrast, volume of tracts printed by Caxton went for an absolutely jaw-dropping £200.)
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[17 Feb 2009|03:39pm] |
Have I mentioned how much the Victoria's Secret PINK line bothers me?
ETA: Oh gross
ETA: The contact for the U of M licensing program is at Kristen Ablauf, at licensing@umich.edu, if any of you out there are wondering. It was the monokini that put me over the edge.
ETA: But at least it can be insipid and funny, as in the description for these pants, which notes that "Bottoms can be cut off to shorten." Amazing! For this special feature I would love to pay $44.50 for a pair of sweatpants.
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