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Bob Bowden @malvu82.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Of what are you talking ?

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 · 20/03/2025

Yes. Good old Gareth particularly on the day that bastard was sentenced for triple murder and planning a massacre. A perfect example !

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

Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliance are relieved, Or not at all.

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Bob Bowden @malvu82.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Are you in UK ? If so did you see Guardian article comparing WS with Dickens… unfavourably !!

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Bob Bowden @malvu82.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

So many people are embracing this attitude ! Don’t watch/ read news etc.

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Bob Bowden @malvu82.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Emilia had a low sense of male attitudes ! But daily life with Iago must have been tricky to say the least !!!

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Bob Bowden @malvu82.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Religion is a sales force for a product that does not exist!

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Bob Bowden @malvu82.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Trump has three weird brothers filling the cauldron with bile !!

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Bob Bowden @malvu82.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I’m being serious….. try Tent Life in Siberia ! You’ll love it ! Promise !

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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 · 01/03/2025

One of the top twenty WS sonnets !!!

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Bob Bowden @malvu82.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Follow it up with As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

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Bob Bowden @malvu82.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

That one’s from Julius Caesar

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Bob Bowden @malvu82.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

And try Milestones by Miles David sextet

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Bob Bowden @malvu82.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

You know Kind of Blue ? Same period. And Mingus Ah Um, ditto.

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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 · 16/02/2025

Is that meant to be funny ? 🤮🤮🤡🤡

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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 · 20/01/2025

There is no situation in life that cannot be enriched by the words of this burning genius !!

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Bob Bowden @malvu82.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Died should have been did ! I’m just interested in what context the word occurred. By the way I think Suzy is a National Treasure also !!!

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Bob Bowden @malvu82.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Why did OE have a single word for such a specific feeling and where died it occur ? And how do you know that is the meaning ??

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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

Used to sub to LRB and TLS but can’t afford to any more. 83 years old. No winter fuel allowance - just !!!

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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 · 28/11/2024

Have photo of my wife crawling through the ring !

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

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness to shine. Arthur Schopenauer

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

A hero…..and a MONSTER !!!

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

Ok. See it now. I’ll list my 10 favourite books in next post. Then my 10 favourite works of music. Then my 10 favourite paintings. To invite discussion, not to set any specific tone. Will anyone be interested ?

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

Or ‘Ballads’ by John Coltrane. Superb, keening tone, overwhelmingly tender rendering of every tune.

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

Molloy by Samuel Beckett Nothing like it !!

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

Try ‘Undercurrent’ by Bill Evans and Jim Hall.

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