Better Than Friday - 242
Hello friends! Happy Friday.
Several reviews coming your way, hope you enjoy when they drop.
Thanks so much for your continued support and have a great weekend.
That Ripley series has been great so far, should you need something to watch...Beautiful cinematography. Love the soundtrack and Caravaggio integration.
Meanwhile -
1. Book to read: The Poems of Walt Whitman (Paid Link)
Time to get acquainted with Whitman. Seems like a good Summer read.
2. Black Metal's Unexplored Fringes - One Man Metal
Claaaasssic Vice doc.
Perfect track.
4. Why Leopoldo Lugones wanted to Kill Borges
Interesting documentary (English subtitles)
Cool to hear about Borges' history in Buenos Aires and get some context.
5. Kierkegaard and the Horror of Doubt
Kierkegaard wrote an unfinished work called Johanes Climacus.
Interesting premise - Is it possible to doubt anything?
His multiple pseudonyms remind me of the Heteronyms of Fernando Pessoa.
I've got Fear and Trembling (Paid Link) on the shelf, been meaning to read it for years.
Blue Jay
Comments (5)
"4. Why Leopoldo Lugones wanted to Kill Borges" Wait. What? This is must see tv. I am overseas right now. I will get on it the minute I get back.
Whitman's poetry is great and his short Memoranda during the War is a moving account of his time spent as a nurse in Washington.
I second Michael here. Kierkegaard and Whitman. What a combo. They're STRANGELY complimentary. That would be a great month of reading.
Cliff, you have stumbled on two infinite harbors in Whitman and Kierkegaard. I envy you the chance to read those works for the first time. Two of the mightiest spirits of their age or any other. I think you may respond to Whitman more immediately. But Kierkegaard is worth the effort he demands. The sex and death are there—just refracted differently.
“DAMN YOU WALT WHITMAN! I. HATE. YOU. WALT. FREAKING. WHITMAN! LEAVES OF GRASS, MY ASS!” - Homer Simpson