tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18965649.post2019496758366995864..comments2023-10-17T05:40:30.018-05:00Comments on Degrees of Grey in Iowa City: For the discerning reader on your shopping list...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04839837286189113610noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18965649.post-89349778578316203512006-11-04T18:33:00.000-06:002006-11-04T18:33:00.000-06:00Part of what I liked about Absurdistan is one of t...Part of what I liked about Absurdistan is one of the characters is called Aloysha Bob. I am slowly wending my way rereading Dostoevesky in the recent Pevear and Volokhonsky's translations. And I do mean slowly. I need to reread The Idiot, I read a lot of the Russians when i was very young. It was my socialist comrades in arms back in Army like Juche Child who got me started.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04839837286189113610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18965649.post-70144275810547747762006-11-04T18:30:00.000-06:002006-11-04T18:30:00.000-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04839837286189113610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18965649.post-54997245932351878092006-11-04T10:15:00.000-06:002006-11-04T10:15:00.000-06:00Dostoyefsky rules. The Idiot, if you didn't alread...Dostoyefsky rules. <i>The Idiot</i>, if you didn't already know, is the Gospel in allegory. I liked it a lot. I liked <i>Crime and Punishment</i> even more.zaphodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15182049990152328515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18965649.post-66819340850755580332006-11-03T17:53:00.000-06:002006-11-03T17:53:00.000-06:00(Putting on flameproof suit) The poem wasn't bad. ...(Putting on flameproof suit) The poem wasn't bad. Better then the Bell Jar and not just because it's shorter.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04839837286189113610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18965649.post-26847149271655014192006-11-03T00:09:00.000-06:002006-11-03T00:09:00.000-06:00I'd love to write a lengthy comment, but I gotta g...I'd love to write a lengthy comment, but I gotta go check my daughters' Myspace for the newly discovered Sylvia Plath poem.Churlitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05018288474865559384noreply@blogger.com