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Bob Bowden @malvu82.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Reading James and enjoying it. Love the conceit that among themselves the blacks speak good English but I think it’s pushing it to have them considering whether something is an example of proleptic irony or dramatic irony !?

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Bob Bowden @malvu82.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves or none or few do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang WS

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Bob Bowden @malvu82.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

We should all be so lucky ! I am !

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Bob Bowden @malvu82.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I am 83 and on a whim I have created a list of the 83 books I would read again given the time ! I shall read a few until ………

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Bob Bowden @malvu82.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Royal Shakespeare Co new season announced incl. Measure for Measure, Winter’s Tale and Titus Andronicus !!😁😁

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Bob Bowden @malvu82.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Holocaust Memorial day . As the Palestinians return to their piles of rubble to find their slaughtered children !😱😱😱😱

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Bob Bowden @malvu82.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

War and Peace in the Pevear and Volokhonski translation. In fact if you read any Russian novel that is available in the P and V translation , get it ! Therese by Francois Mauriac In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck Dubliners by James Joyce All books that will inform your life.?

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Bob Bowden @malvu82.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Indent by Cecil Taylor Any of the seven albums by the original Ornette Coleman quartet on the Atlantic label. Out to Lunch by Eric Dolphy

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Bob Bowden @malvu82.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Paintings Bathsheba reading King David’s letter by Rembrandt Self portrait by Rembrandt in National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh And the one in Nat Gallery, Trafalgar Square Carravagio’s Dinner at Emmeaus also in Nat Gallery London

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Bob Bowden @malvu82.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Music A Love Supreme live recording Antibes 1965. John Coltrane Interstellar Space album of duets - Coltrane and drummer Rashied Ali Porgy and Bess. Miles Davis with Gil Evans Orchestra Kind of Blue - of course !!!! Any solo Thelonious Monk album.

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Bob Bowden @malvu82.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Music Goldberg variations. Greatest five minutes of music Benedictus from Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis.

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Bob Bowden @malvu82.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

The greatest movie is Mirror directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. Greatest western The Wild Bunch directed by Sam Peckinpah. Greatest gangster Goodfellas directed by Martin Scorcese War film The Deer Hunter directed by Michael Cimino Unclassifiable Taxi Driver directed by Martin again More to follow

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Bob Bowden @malvu82.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Not possible not to mention Gisèlle Pelicot ! What a brave woman ! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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Bob Bowden @malvu82.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Been away for health reasons Favourite pieces of music. First two . Beethoven string quartet no. 14 Beethoven piano sonata no. 32. The arietta. For me, the two greatest works ever composed.

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Bob Bowden @malvu82.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

One of my favourite quotes Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. Denis Diderot

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Bob Bowden @malvu82.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Anna Karenina As I Lay Dying Crime and Punishment Moby Dick Jude The Obscure Molloy Our Mutual Friend Blood Meridian Under the Volcano Recollection of a Journey

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Bob Bowden @malvu82.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Where’s my post of an hour ago gone ??????

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Bob Bowden @malvu82.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

More and more facilities may ‘Disneyfy’ it. I’d rather it was left as monument, car park. It’s isolation without any trimmings increases the majesty and mystery. For me. But I am an old fart. Make things too comfortable for people and they’ll mess it up. Seen it all my life.

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Bob Bowden @malvu82.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I have read for 78 years and have read a vast amount, among which are a few books that are achievements so profound that I would see them as great books that once read leave something within you for life.

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Bob Bowden @malvu82.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Look And finished in next post

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Bob Bowden @malvu82.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Schumann, Frank Sinatra, RobertJohnson, SonHouse, Tuvan throat singers, Shostakovich, Webern, Tom Waits….again etc, etc. Music an essential of my life. With reading. And writing.

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Bob Bowden @malvu82.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

First, check my age above. Now….music. I have iPod classic, 160 gig currently over 12000 tracks. By…eg. The Clash, Arctic Monkeys, Royal Blood, Eminem, Albert Ayler, Charles Gayle, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, Tom Waits, David Murray, Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, John Lennon etc To be continued

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Bob Bowden @malvu82.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Reading The Books of Jacob by Olga Tocarkzuk. Anyone else read it ? Comments ? Other than Phew !!!

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Bob Bowden @malvu82.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I have been reading since I was 5 so 77 years. Favourite authors Dostoyevsky, Tolstoi, Beckett, Faulkner, McCarthy, Lowry, Camus. Read Proust, all Dickens and Hardy novels etc etc. voracious reader.

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Bob Bowden @malvu82.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Currently reading Shakespeare. The Man who pays the Rent by Judi Dench. Anyone else tried/ trying it ?

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Bob Bowden @malvu82.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Bob Bowden here ! 82. Lived in Bristol, England all my life. Loves Beethoven, John Coltrane, Shakespeare, Miles Davis, Beckett, Rembrandt, The Clash. Lifelong Socialist. Big Liverpool fan. Anybody there ?

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