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Sunday, August 4. 2013

These posts are beginning to feel like Show-And-Tell in grade school

It seems to make me feel better to post and write about death and house clean-out, so I will. I guess it's a slice of life up here in Yankeeland.


Here's a small stack of the number of books I retrieved from Dad's bookshelves. This might keep me busy until Thanksgiving or Christmas. I read Landscape and Memory once, when it first came out, but it wouldn't hurt me to read it again.


I have always wanted to read Wilson's Prelude, but it never fell into my hands. His classic. Dad loved Edmund Wilson. I'm not sure yet how much I need to know about Turner.






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In Anthony Powell's great series A Dance to the Music of Time one volume is titled Books Do Furnish a Room. It just struck me as very profound as I've viewed your family's home, how comfortable, personal, inviting. Our choices in reading material do indeed "furnish" a room. Thanks for sharing these very personal moments from your parents' lives.
#1 Paul on 2013-08-04 08:49 (Reply)
All you need to do with Turner is look at him from time to time. Closely. Of continuing interest is, say, Fighting Téméraire. Biography? Ah, life is short and lunch is long.

You also don't need the Pepys bio. Rereading Pepys, here and there in a dabbling fashion, is enough.


Wilson, Prelude. YES!

Landscape, Yes.

Braudel? Only if inflicted by insomnia.

Schama? Britain? Okay. Landscape? Excellent.
#2 vanderleun on 2013-08-04 12:33 (Reply)
The Turner book is very good, and, if you like Britain and history, it should capture your interest. Turner was a strange little man, but a revolutionary in the field of landscape painting, forging ahead with new approaches to painting the atmosphere. The critics were terrible to him, and his personal life was difficult.
#3 MissyW on 2013-08-04 17:52 (Reply)

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