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Post by Pink Betty on Nov 3, 2009 11:47:49 GMT
chapter twenty-two ....the delight of chamber music at home.  ....can't see it myself |
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Post by Pink Betty on Nov 4, 2009 10:15:58 GMT
chapter twenty-three ....boyish delight at playing charades.  |
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Post by Pink Betty on Nov 6, 2009 1:06:04 GMT
chapter twenty four was too dreary  |
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Post by nickcosmosonde on Nov 7, 2009 1:20:07 GMT
He met a woman.
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Post by Pink Betty on Nov 7, 2009 10:56:47 GMT
yes on a bus she was reading his first published article - but as her eyes glazed over - the bird of delight flew away  |
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Post by Pink Betty on Nov 7, 2009 11:07:53 GMT
chapter twenty-five .....the delight of attending a literary party in the twenties.  |
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Daz Madrigal
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Post by Daz Madrigal on Nov 7, 2009 11:13:46 GMT
yes on a bus she was reading his first published article - but as her eyes glazed over - the bird of delight flew away They generally do come Winter. |
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Post by Pink Betty on Nov 8, 2009 11:33:31 GMT
chapter twenty-six the virtues of writing with simplicity. .... the taste of delight, like honey in the rock, on completing a thirteen and a half minute talk on C.G. Jung so that the ordinary listener could see what all the fuss was about!  |
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Post by Pink Betty on Nov 9, 2009 11:35:53 GMT
chapter twenty-seven On how the business of renting furnished houses for the children's holidays is redeemed by the delight of rummaging through other people's books and music.  |
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Post by Pink Betty on Nov 10, 2009 11:32:55 GMT
chapter twenty-eight at once berating Shakespeare for cropping up too often in the playhouses of the land (because there are no royalties to pay), yet when we come unexpectedly upon the smiling poet himself, what delight he gives us! |
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Post by Lazy Markham Harshly on Nov 10, 2009 13:39:17 GMT
Bets, I am enjoying this thread immensely. Do you do requests? I have always meant to read War & Peace but never got around to it....   |
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Post by Lazy betts on Nov 10, 2009 14:31:01 GMT
 let's finish this one first! but the thought of doing W&P one page at a time has some appeal!
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Post by Pink Betty on Nov 11, 2009 8:01:13 GMT
chapter twenty-nine on conductors. .. the noble silvery Bruno Walter, transmuting Wagner into sunlight, green leaves, birdsong. Nikisch - a man in a tranced white passion. Tommy Beecham duelling for Mozart with a glittering rapier. de Sabata, taking the whole London Philharmonic with him up the steps to Beethoven's heaven.... Maestros!.... what a delight to share this world with you! |
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Post by Pink Betty on Nov 12, 2009 8:44:11 GMT
chapter thirty at the theatre. ....the moment of hush when the footlights illuminate only the velvety folds of the curtain. ...perhaps it is then , just before the curtain trembles and rises, that we should leave the theatre. |
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Post by purple joggers on Nov 12, 2009 16:55:55 GMT
Do you do requests? I have always meant to read War & Peace but never got around to it.... Lady Markham Harshly, as one of the characters in War and Peace says, it’s all taken up with dinners and balls. And he didn’t mean cannon balls, of which there are also many. W&P has a lot of balls. But W&P mentions 'delights' too - lessons in geometry are said to be one of Princess Mary Bolkonskaya’s. (Strange that, with everybody who is anybody in the UK revealing their ‘delights’ just now, nobody has mentioned their non-Euclidean geometry lessons) Maybe JBP would have judged some of the dishes at W&P dinners as 'delights' - turtle soup served with floating cocks' combs. Hmmm! Organised by Count Rostov at a dinner at the English Club (of all places!)  |
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