tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post4093574364442728655..comments2024-03-29T03:04:00.853-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: Stendhal - I ask for my foodAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-82345036571256072402008-03-11T00:07:00.000-05:002008-03-11T00:07:00.000-05:00I may have even left out some of the funniest ones...I may have even left out some of the funniest ones - it's the fussiness that kills me, the "twice a day, four times a year" stuff. I mean, you don't want to ask GOD for anything unreasonable. Ther have to be limits.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-63741706991245704232008-03-10T10:20:00.000-05:002008-03-10T10:20:00.000-05:00This is pretty funny...makes me want to spend time...This is pretty funny...makes me want to spend time with Stendhal, or Henri...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-31776105095979145202008-03-10T08:58:00.000-05:002008-03-10T08:58:00.000-05:00Now "On Love", that book definitely helps explain ...Now "On Love", that book definitely helps explain some of the more obscure episodes in Stendhals' novels. Sometimes he seems to be dramtizing his ideas about love and "crystallization".Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-86255674790748391932008-03-07T12:42:00.000-06:002008-03-07T12:42:00.000-06:00HAD we but world enough, and time...Auerbach quote...HAD we but world enough, and time...Auerbach quotes Marvell at the start of Mimesis...I'll read the essay you mention, thanks. <BR/><BR/>speaking of love...have you read On Love by Stendhal? It's dazzling. Especially his take on 'crystallization'<BR/><BR/>Your blogging makes me want to go back to Henri. The Red and the Black is one of my very favourite novels. Haven't yet reached Charterhouse.NigelBealehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06094387597632333192noreply@blogger.com