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Date: 26 March 2004 17:18:13
A few days back I read 'Kleinzeit' by Russell Hoban. Really funny, but with a serious undertone. Love the way he gives voices to inanimate objects (word, paper, hospital, underground, etc), a really good device through which to see the world in a different light.
On the bookshelf at the moment (if anyone cares) is Shusaku Endo - 'Scandal' and 'When I Whistle', Jorge Luis Borges - 'Labyrinths', Wole Soyinka - 'The Man Died' (sounds like a Travis CD) Theodor Adorno - 'Dialectic of Enlightenment', Simone Weil - 'Oppression and Liberty' and 'Gravity and Grace', James K. Baxter - 'Collected Plays', and the full score (well...all that was finished!) of Arnold Schoenberg's 'Moses and Aaron' (Cage's early teacher y'know, Schoenberg not Moses or Aaron!), and J.M.Coetzee - 'Waiting for the Barbarians'. Should keep me off the streets for a while.
Discovered a disused railway line the other day which has been kind of converted to a cycle track (still a bit rough in places) and goes out towards Motherwell, past all the silently rusting cranes of the Clydeside dockyards and shipbuiders and all the frantic scurrying of the new developments going up. Shall be one of my regular running routes when I (eventually) get back to doing anything more than walking, hopefully only 3 or 4 months away now. We'll see.
Bye bye Mr Houllier. Please Martin O'Neil, come to Anfield. Pleeeeeaaaaaaase!
Tomorrow is a darkroom day. Yabba-dabba-doo!