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Date: 12 July 2004 17:23:53
...is a wonderful book by Italian Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi. It's simply lots of short accounts of moments when the all embracing darkness of Nazi Germany was penetrated in some way by the ingenuity, skill, cleverness, self-risking giving, or simply luck of Levi and those he met in Auschwitz and his travels afterwards. Although the background of the book is necessarily dark it leaves you feeling hopeful; if some could remain human in the camps, then surely we can.
Today, in Kelvin Park (a space of reprieve?) I started J. M. Coetzee's 'Boyhood'. Only on page 18 but I'm still in love with his writing style from reading 'Disgrace' 6 months ago. I do recommend 'Disgrace' very much too, though you probably don't want to read it at the same time as listening to too much Joy Division or else it's a case of 'next stop melancholy central', for me at least.
Today I am a *VERY* happy bunny for I have gained 2 tickets to see Nick Cave in Glasgow in November! Wahooo! Which will be a moment of reprieve for my spirits come the cold, dark, winter nights. Have not yet decided what to do with the second ticket, have a few friends I could go with. But which one? To choose seems almost unfair! Maybe I'll hold on to it for a while. I seem to be meeting quite a few new people around the place, so maybe I'll hang onto it for someone who needs a moment of reprieve come November.
Now, when are those P.J. Harvey tour dates coming out?