After Reading 200+ Posts
citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Sun, 05 Dec 1999 15:09:20 -0800
>From the sidelines:
1. Bravo to The Laughing Man and Cecilia Baader on their "Orpheus.
Eurydice. Hermes" exchange.
2. Re Paula Modersohn-Becker: A fairly new book attempts to gather all
that is known re Paula, Rilke and Clara Rilke, titled _Dear Friend: Rainer
Maria Rilke and Paula Modersohn-Becker_, by Eric Torgersen, Northwestern U.
Press, 1998.
3. Amazed and grateful to all of those fishes who posted re Muriel.
4. Re Jens Peter Jacobsen: Am most interested to hear how his short
stories turn out. About 25 lifetimes ago I came across a copy of Jacobsen's
novel _Niels Lyhne_, beloved by RMR, but read it without Rilke's eyes.
5. "With no William Shawn..." (from will's fine Hapworth post) prompts
recalling that Ved Mehta's _Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker_ is now
available in paperback. Has anyone read it? (What I eagerly await is a
full biography of that enigmatic mentor and closest friend of JDS.)
6. Dear Mr. Jerome David Salinger, greet and grace this fast-arriving new
millennium: grant us one more entry into the casino proper of your fiction.
7. Lastly, a belated happy 124th birthday to Rene Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef
Maria Rilke, born December 4, 1875 in Prague.
--Bruce.