Ed Cryer wrote:
> Ed Cryer wrote:
>> henh...@gmail.com wrote:
>>> On Monday, February 13, 2023 at 1:02:44 AM UTC-8, Ed Cryer wrote:
>>>> henh...@gmail.com wrote:
>>>>> On Tuesday, February 7, 2023 at 11:17:50 AM UTC-8, Ed Cryer wrote:
>>>>>> Liber excellentissimus. Antea abhinc nonnullos annos legeram
>>>>>> "Kafka On
>>>>>> The Shore" (Kafka in Litore). Sed NW est millies melior.
>>>>>> In interrete dicitur "IQ84" optimus liber eius esse; eum certe mox
>>>>>> legam.
>>>>>> Hic scriptor Iaponensis videtur tam occidentalis et Europaeus quam
>>>>>> ego,
>>>>>> qui in Anglia natus sum et adhuc habito. Meam in mentem revocat
>>>>>> scriptores Gallicos; Flaubert, Maupassant, et alios eius generis.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Edus
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> i read this novel 2 times -- i think i watched the movie version 2
>>>>> times too.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> https://silverscreenclassicsblog.wordpress.com/2018/07/22/dr-zhivago-1965-david-leans-masterpiece-of-love-and-tragedy/
>>>>>
>>>>> Unlike other forms of art, cinema is an art-form, which relies on
>>>>> an incredible diversity of talent and skills, both behind and in
>>>>> front of the camera and before, during and after any shooting occurs.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yet the cinematic vision on the big screen, which is experienced by
>>>>> the audience, is ultimately that of the director.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cinema has seen incredible directors work their craft and perhaps
>>>>> one of the most gifted was David Lean. His sense of cinematography
>>>>> and the human story within an historical context has seen him at
>>>>> the wheel of some of cinema’s greatest masterpieces including The
>>>>> Bridge On The River Kwai (1957) and Lawrence Of Arabia (1962). Yet
>>>>> he brought Dickens to the screen with incredible sensitivity to the
>>>>> textual integrity of both Great Expectations (1946) and Oliver
>>>>> Twist (1948).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --------- do you notice the overuse of commas?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -------------- i'm wondering ... in the recent decades, is the
>>>>> story (novel, Doctor Zhivago) embraced / loved by Russian ppl as
>>>>> much as Tolstoy's novels ?
>>>> https://www.quora.com/How-is-Doctor-Zhivago-viewed-in-Russia
>>>>
>>>> Ed
>>>
>>>
>>> thanks!!!        great page.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>   [IQ84]  --- i'm curious...   After a non-Jp person reads this book,
>>>                     is    he/she  aware that     Q     in Jp is
>>> pronounced   [Cue (Kew),   or   Ku] so that
>>>                             this  Title  is a ref. to   [1984]  ?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> _____________________________________________________
>>> the 1st page of     [A Study in Scarlet]
>>>
>>>          iirc... when i first read
>>>                       [A Study in Scarlet],   (15 years ago???)
>>>                 the expression that appears in the beginning
>>>                    [kith and kin] was new to me.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> https://www.gutenberg.org/files/244/244-h/244-h.htm
>>>
>>>                   CHAPTER I.
>>>
>>> MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES.
>>>
>>>                     In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of
>>> Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go
>>> through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. Having
>>> completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth
>>> Northumberland Fusiliers as Assistant Surgeon. The regiment was
>>> stationed in India at the time, and before I could join it, the second
>>> Afghan war had broken out. On landing at Bombay, I learned that my
>>> corps had advanced through the passes, and was already deep in the
>>> enemy’s country. I followed, however, with many other officers who
>>> were in the same situation as myself, and succeeded in reaching
>>> Candahar in safety, where I found my regiment, and at once entered
>>> upon my new duties.
>>>
>>>                     The campaign brought honours and promotion to many,
>>> but for me it had nothing but misfortune and disaster. I was removed
>>> from my brigade and attached to the Berkshires, with whom I served at
>>> the fatal battle of Maiwand. There I was struck on the shoulder by a
>>> Jezail bullet, which shattered the bone and grazed the subclavian
>>> artery. I should have fallen into the hands of the murderous Ghazis
>>> had it not been for the devotion and courage shown by Murray, my
>>> orderly, who threw me across a pack-horse, and succeeded in bringing
>>> me safely to the British lines.
>>>
>>>                          Worn with pain, and weak from the prolonged
>>> hardships which I had undergone, I was removed, with a great train of
>>> wounded sufferers, to the base hospital at Peshawar. Here I rallied,
>>> and had already improved so far as to be able to walk about the wards,
>>> and even to bask a little upon the verandah, when I was struck down by
>>> enteric fever, that curse of our Indian possessions. For months my
>>> life was despaired of, and when at last I came to myself and became
>>> convalescent, I was so weak and emaciated that a medical board
>>> determined that not a day should be lost in sending me back to
>>> England. I was dispatched, accordingly, in the troopship “Orontes,”
>>> and landed a month later on Portsmouth jetty, with my health
>>> irretrievably ruined, but with permission from a paternal government
>>> to spend the next nine months in attempting to improve it.
>>>
>>>                    I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was
>>> therefore as free as air—or as free as an income of eleven shillings
>>> and sixpence a day will permit a man to be.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>              -----------    this last bit
>>>                        (((as free as air—or as free as ....... )))
>>>                                     is really pretty.
>>>
>>>
>>> FW  often mentions    [Ghazi  Power]
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Will Miller's  book    (the novel,   [Shaheed!])        also
>>> mentions   [Peshawar]   on the   1st page !!!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> [Watson  floating into the sky]     recalls
>>>
>>>
>>>   (I should like to ask that Shedlock Homes person who is out for
>>> removing the roofs of our criminal classics by what deductio ad
>>> domunum he hopes de tacto to detect anything unless he happens of
>>> himself, movibile tectu, to have a slade off)
>>>
>>>                                          -----------      (Finnegans
>>> Wake, p.165).
>>
>> I read the title as IQ84. ie. somebody with a low intelligence rating.
>> It was only well into the book that I became aware of the the 1984
>> link with George Orwell's famous novel. Haruki himself tells us; it's
>> set in the year 1984, a strange wobbly 1984, so he changes the 9 to Q
>> (for questionable).
>> Rewriting history.  We live in it; truth or falsehood, fake or real,
>> substantial or product of the mind. Whether there are millions
>> flocking in it, or you're alone.
>>
>> Parallel worlds where aliens come storming in, or monsters of the id.
>>
>> That's a well trodden path in western literature. Realism/ idealism/
>> surrealism in western philosophy. Writers such as Kafka and latterly
>> Stephen King have trodden that path threadbare.
>>
>> Ed
>>
>>
>
> Haruki Murakami never ceases to surprise me with his constant
> western-world references. Kafka, Dickens, Dostoevsky, and now Ella
> Fitzgerald.
> This song has come to feature largely in his novel;
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_uwE0WkM7Y
>
> Ed
>
> P.S. By the way, having listened to that recording, I tend to agree with
> him. Ella Fitzgerald, Billy Holiday; they had something very special in
> their voices.
>
> Ed
I'll add Nat King Cole to this mix. Such classy and unforgettable music.
And yet he had to go in through the back door for gigs, the tradesmen's
entrance.
Ed