Posted in Commonplace Book, Letter from Berlin, People, Reflections on Jun 9th, 2007 3 Comments »
With Berlin’s mercury at 88 degrees (Fahrenheit) and forecast to stay up there through Monday, don’t expect much energy-expenditure from me today, sitting here buck-nekkid and still sweating, but I’ve just made an important discovery about what’s struck me for years as the website of all websites, and I urge you to poke around [...]
Posted in Commonplace Book, Letter from Berlin, Life and culture, Memories, People on Jun 7th, 2007 1 Comment »
Coincidence has brought this great (British-born) American poet into my consciousness twice in recent days. On June 3d I attended one of the Berlin Philharmonic’s most enjoyable concerts in quite a while: with its regular conductor Sir Simon Rattle on the podium, Daniel Barenboim (who ordinarily presides as Generalmusikdirektor of the Deutsche Staatsoper over in [...]
Posted in Commonplace Book, Letter from Berlin, Life and culture, Reflections on Jun 6th, 2007 4 Comments »
The man who became world-famous as plain Dr. Seuss, fundamentally a melancholy man who like most “humorists” took an essentially baleful view of the human condition, entered this vale of tears with the resoundingly German name Theodor Seuss Geisel in Springfield, Massachusetts. Both father and grandfather, obviously of German origin, had worked in Springfield as [...]
Posted in Commonplace Book, Memories, People on Jun 1st, 2007 2 Comments »
I first encountered the term “Commonplace Book” when W. H. Auden published a book under that name as a kind of catch-all for bits and pieces of writing he’d found sufficiently meritorious over the years for him to want to save them. I’ve decided to turn this freshly baked blog into my own Commonplace Book.
I [...]
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