Better Than Friday - 254
Howdy ya'll -
I posted a review of Hemingway's 'A Farewell to Arms' yesterday if you haven't had the chance to check it out. It is one of the greatest books I have ever read. One of the most tragic as well.
Wishing you a great weekend, thank you so much for your continued support.
More good stuff soon.
1. Forthcoming book from Wakefield Press I plan to read: The Tower of Love by Rachilde
As the description informs us, Marguerite Vallette-Eymery, alias Rachilde, was the only woman writing in the French magazine Le Décadent.
The book is about a sailor put in charge of a lighthouse who begins "drifting into the realm of the unwell" as Marwood in Withnail and I put it.
According to this comment on Reddit, she took the name Rachilde from the ghost of a Swedish nobleman she met in a seance.
A terrifying vision of an arriving future.
"Welcome to Costco. I love you."
3. Mark Renner - Saints and Sages
A great sad song easily stuck in my head by a previously obscure musician and artist Mark Renner. Apparently he composed a lot of his music in the 80's/early 90's.
Both of these men are among the greats.
5. "Sigmund Freud: The Only Known Recording of His Voice, 1938"
Fascinating to hear him speak.
Cleaner version here too.
Osprey, also known as a Sea Hawk
Comments (3)
Cool Freud recording. Kind of surreal to hear legends like him speak. There's this recording of Tolstoi speaking English that had a similar effect on me.
Good Delon interview! Watched Cavett and Sophia Loren + Marcello Mastroianni the other night. Very funny stuff.
Definitely going to watch that one, thanks for the rec.