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it tastes amazing
I don't like coconut so I added more vanilla cookies instead. I also bought extra sweet strawberries and added more than the recipe called for to make sure it came out pink and sweet. It was good BUT it didn't taste like cheesecake at all. It was more like a strawberry mousse cake than a cheesecake. Won't make again.


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I have to read a data file that contains numbers formatted with (very) old FORTRAN style. A line of the file looks like this:
4.500000+1 1.894719-3 4.600000+1 8.196721-3 4.700000+1 2.869539-3
The file (or large portion of it) contains these numbers in a fixed width format. The trouble with reading these numbers in Python is that there is no
E in these numbers. Watch what happens:
>>> float('4.50000+1')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: invalid literal for float(): 4.50000+1
I can write a parser to read this, but wanted to know if this has already be done. This is an old FORTRAN format so I thought perhaps someone had already figured it out. Does anyone know of a library to read numbers like this?

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Discovery of the 'Plastisphere' -- a new marine ecological community
The masses of plastic debris that float over large areas of the world's oceans have become new ecological communities that scientists have named the "Plastisphere." Their report in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology suggests that these novel habitats in the North Atlantic Ocean may harbor potential disease-causing microbes. Erik Zettler of the Sea Education Association, Tracy Mincer of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Linda Amaral-Zettler of the Marine Biological Laboratory explain that plastic has become the No. 1 form of ocean debris, causing serious concerns about its impact on the health of ocean communities. The damaging effects that plastic in the oceans have on fish, birds and other seafaring animals have previously been described in detail by other researchers. But scientists had yet to explore what plastic does to some of the smallest ocean inhabitants. Zettler, Mincer and Amaral-Zettler decided to find out.
They discovered that tiny organisms from algae to bacteria thrive on plastic debris, transforming it into rich "microbial reefs" that are distinct from communities in surrounding water. Though some inhabitants may be degrading the plastic, it still provides a relatively stable home for microbes. Apparently a good home for its little residents, plastic debris might pose a health risk for invertebrates, fish or possibly humans. The Plastisphere harbors a group of bacteria called Vibrio. Some Vibrio species can cause illnesses, such as cholera, when they come in contact with humans.
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What are the pros? Easy to germinate
What are the cons? Day length
For those growers who were afraid that they started them too late or that it requires too long of a season, the issue may really be the day-length sensitivity that affects many tropical plants.
Day length sensitivity means that the hormones that make the plant bloom are not released if the plant receives more than 13 hours of sunlight a day. I got my first bloom this year on November 20, the day before the first frost which was three weeks later than last year's first frost. That means that the plant will not bloom until late September or October and as is the case with most tropical plants they will not survive the first frost and most people outside of California, there isn't enough time between the first blossom and the first killing frost for the plant to produce.
One suggestion would be to put the plants in the shade of a building where it gets plenty of shade so that it might bloom in time to produce before frost or in blocks so it will produce its own shade
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What are the pros? Great color, delicious leaves
What are the cons? n/a
I started these early indoors and every seed germinated, transplanted them into solo cups.. and then never got around to planting them in the ground at the proper time. In the cups they grew to 2 - 3 feet tall, and when I finally put them in the garden in July or August they were root bound but still grew another foot. No flowers, but maybe that's my fault? Even without the blooms the plants were beautiful with bright green leaves and red stems. The leaves taste like sour cherries or strawberries, and I enjoyed picking them off to eat as I walked past. I'll be growing these again next summer for the leaves to use in salads, and if they end up blooming, great! If not, I won't be disappointed.
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What are the pros? Highly ornamental
What are the cons? I killed them
Grown in 5 gallon containers. Only one seed in the pack failed to germinate. They grew 4-5' tall by early August (still no flowers), and I received a lot of compliments on their appearance. Unfortunately I foliar fed them one time using the standard 1 TBS per gallon of seaweed extract, and they went into shock and did not fully recover. The rest of my garden loves it and the Roselles were the only plants affected. Will definitely grow again next year.
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What are the pros? beautiful plants, easy to star
What are the cons? long season
I started the seed indoors in February & transplanted to the garden. They were large plants but they never bloomed even though our season was unusually long this year. I realized after the frost that I could have used the leaves, not just the flowers so never got a chance to try it.
What are the pros? magical shape and color
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It produces as promised, although it seems to take forever to flower. Worth waiting for. Grows well in my rain saturated soil in Hawaii.


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Agostino by Alberto Moravia
Agostino by Alberto Moravia (1945) Translated from the Italian by Marie Canavaggia
I'm late to post about January's Book Club choice. It was Agostino by Alberto Moravia. We had already read Contempt and decided to read another one. Agostino is a novella about adolescence. Agostino is 13 and he's spending his holidays at the beach with his widowed mother. We don't know how his father died. The war, maybe. Agostino's mother is never named. She's still young and attractive. At the beginning of the holidays, she's centered on her son and he enjoys spending his time with her. They take a boat and go swimming and he's proud to be seen in her company.
Then she meets a young man and he accompanies her to her daily boat tours and swimming sessions. Agostino becomes a third wheel and he resents his mother for it. He witnesses the change in her behaviour: she's flirting with the young man and has attitudes he'd never seen in her. Agostino starts seeing his mother as a woman and not as a mother only.
Agostino is terribly upset not to be his mother's first interest any longer. He needs to share but mostly, he needs to accept that she's a woman, that her life as a woman is separate from her life as a mother. She's no longer asexual. He notices her body and starts feeling uncomfortable in situations that were normal to him before. He'd like her to be more modest when he comes to her room. She's unaware of his uneasiness and she should change her behaviour to take into account that her boy is turning into a young man.
This holiday forces on Agostino the separation that needed to happen. He's growing up, it's also time for him to have a life independent from his mother. This first attempt at autonomy is done through joining a gang of young local boys who hang out around the beach.
This will be educational on several levels. First, they don't come from the same social background. Agostino comes from a rich family; he lives in a mansion and has no idea of how privileged he is. He takes money for granted and when he mixes with these local boys coming from poor fishermen families, he's confronted to other social references. They don't have the same vision of life. They don't live by the same rules. Violence is part of their life, fighting with each other, struggling to survive and starving attention. They're more comfortable with their bodies.
Second, they are less sheltered, more mature and more knowledgeable about facts-of-life. They will reveal to Agostino what relationship his mother has with the young man. They will make fun of his innocence but will still do his sexual education. They will be eye-opening for him and trigger his leaving his childhood behind.
13 is a delicate age with a maelstrom of emotions and thoughts. Agostino still wears short pants but his mind is moving on. He's puzzled and innocent at first but he catches on quickly. He doesn't have a father figure in his life and that affects his relationship with his mother. (Hints at psychoanalysis are rather obvious in the novel) It explains why he's suddenly discovering that she's more than a mother, that to other men, she can be a lover. He was content; this new awareness disturbs the harmony of his life. This summer is about finding a new equilibrium to go forward.
I won't tell too much about this incredible novella. I'm amazed again at how much Moravia can pack in a hundred pages. The style is subtle and evocative. I was there, on the beach, imagining the deep blue Mediterranean Sea, the sun, the heat, the cabins on the beach, the little boats. It's very cinematographic with short but spot-on descriptions. The quick change in Agostino is masterfully described. He's 13, on the fence between childhood and adolescence. The invisible hand of time pushes him to the side of adolescence. That doesn't go without scratches on his soul.
Honestly, seeing how short this is, there's no excuse for not reading it. If you need further assurance that this is an amazing read, please have a look at reviews by Guy and Jacqui.
Danish disappointment
This Should Be Written in the Present Tense by Helle Helle (2011). French title: Au présent. (Translated by Catherine Lise Dubost.)
I wanted to read contemporary Danish fiction. There aren't many Danish books on the shelves in bookstores and I'd read a review of This Should Be Written in the Present Tense on Jacqui's blog. I thought "Why not?". I bought the English translation because I wanted it on e-reader form and the French translation is only available in hard cover.
This Should Be Written in the Present Tense is about Dorte who moves in a new home near the train station in Glumso, near Copenhagen. Dorte has enrolled at the university in Copenhagen and she commutes to the city but never goes to class. We are in her head as she recalls scenes from her past and talks about her aunt Dorte, her former lover Per…
I managed to read half of the book before abandoning it. I stopped reading it when started having uncharitable thoughts about the main character. In my mind, I called her Dorte-Torte which isn't nice. And I had the soon-to-be-abandoned book syndrome: walk around the kindle to avoid picking it up, browsing through the shelves to decide which book would be the next…
Dorte is dull and passive and I have a hard time with passive characters. I didn't care about Per and the likes. I was bored out of my mind by repetitive meal descriptions:
We had goat's cheese and baguette with red wine, and she made coffee in a French press and heated up the milk.
And this one:
I was going to have meatloaf, but when I stood in the kitchen with the minced meat and the box of eggs I decided I couldn't be bothered. I boiled the mince and had it in a pitta bread with a bit of cucumber.
I decided I couldn't be bothered either. God knows the French are obsessed with food. "How was the food?" must be in the Top Three Questions someone asks you when you come back from holiday. But in contemporary literature, it's rather toned down except if the book is about a chef.
It reminded me of a song by Vincent Delerm. Two people are watching a play by Shakespeare at the Avignon festival. He sings that there are no costumes, no acting, no moves so they thought "why not no public, after all?" and left. I thought there was no plot, no catching characters and if I was about to read about my kind of mundane everyday life, I'd rather live it than read about it.
Helle Helle is a renowned writer in Denmark, she won prizes and This Should Be Written in the Present Tense was awarded the Prix des Libraires in France. I'm not going to say it's a bad book but that it didn't work for me. Obviously some readers better informed than me found it excellent. If you want to read something positive about this novel, here's Jacqui's review.
Maria, rider on the storm
Play it as it Lays by Joan Didion (1970). French title: Maria avec et sans rien. Translated by Jean Rosenthal.
Preamble: I read this with Jacqui from JacquiWine's Journal and after being caught by Didion's prose and narration in Run River and after reading Max's excellent review of Play it as it Lays.
So they suggested that I set down the facts, and the facts are these: My name is Maria Wyeth. That is pronounced Mar-eye-ah, to get it straight at the outset. Some people here call me "Mrs. Lang," but I never did. Age, thirty-one. Married. Divorced. One daughter, age four. (I talk about Kate to no one here. In the place where Kate is they put electrodes on her head and needles in her spine and try to figure what went wrong. It is one more version of why does a coral snake have two glands of neurotoxic poison. Kate has soft down on her spine and an aberrant chemical in her brain. Kate is Kate. Carter could not remember the soft down on her spine or he would not let them put needles there.) From my mother I inherited my looks and a tendency to migraine. From my father I inherited an optimism which did not leave me until recently. Details: I was born in Reno, Nev., and moved nine years later to Silver Wells, Nev., pop. then 28, now 0. We moved down to Silver Wells because my father lost the Reno house in a private game and happened to remember that he owned this town, Silver Wells.
The book opens with Maria speaking. She's in a psychiatric ward and was put there after she killed someone named BZ. She was married to Carter, a film director. Then Helene speaks about visiting her, for BZ's and Carter's sake. Then Carter speaks about visiting her, for his own sake.
After these three short chapters, the novella is mostly a third person narrative, all seen from Maria's point of view. Sometimes, short chapters in italic are told by Maria in the first person, like a voiceover in a film. Play it as it Lays is a succession of scenes that slowly build a puzzle and bring us to see when Maria killed BZ. It also gives us a view of her state-of-mind, of her behavior and of the crowd she spends her time with, mostly people from the film industry.
The story's background is made of mental health issues, death, sex and the combination of the two, abortion. (We're in 1970. For my generation the combination of sex and death would be AIDS). Maria is a strange character. She's an actress who has a relative success in one of Carter's first movies. She's unable to work now. I don't know how to qualify her or to picture her. She's drifting, riding the storm of life with the help of barbiturates, alcohol and a massive dose of feigned indifference. She has trouble interacting with people. She's plagued with guilt. A character says she has a very self-destructive personality structure, which sounds the perfect description for me. She's silent, apparently indifferent, unreachable. She has compulsive behaviors, like when she drives aimlessly the roads of California. She was probably fragile already but her mental health went downhill after she confessed to Carter that she was pregnant with another man's child. Carter reacted badly and gave her the contact information of a doctor who would perform an abortion. In the USA, abortion was legalized in 1973 (1975 in France). So it means that Maria does something illegal in a frightening place without medical security, without support and without being able to talk about it. And she wanted to keep the child. This episode changes her and her appetite for life.
Maria and Carter's relationship is complicated. They can't communicate and Carter picks fight just to get a reaction from Maria, to see if she's still alive, still interested in life enough to get angry. They are both sleeping with other people and yet have a deep bond.
Maria has common points with Lily and Martha from Run River, written in 1963. She seems like the combination of the two. Carter resembles Everett, Lily's husband and Martha's brother. There's a wall between Maria and Carter just as there is one between Everett and Lily. In both books, the main female character cheats on her husband for a reason the reader doesn't quite understand. She doesn't fall in love with someone else. It's not really just for the sex. It seems more like an activity she engages in out of boredom or maybe to feel connected to someone else.
Maria has mental health issues but I won't venture into foreign territories and try to qualify her illness. She's obsessed with snakes and they obviously represent death and sex. Her mother died after she was bitten by a rattlesnake. Snakes are also part of the Californian fauna. They're sneaky, unpredictable and possibly lethal.
Play it as it Lays left me with a head full of images. Images of roads in California. The complicated knot of highways in Los Angeles, roads through the Mojave Desert, roads in the desert around Las Vegas, roads in the Death Valley. Images of Jim Morrison in the Mojave desert.
Images of paintings by Edward Hopper, just as when I read Run River.
SHE SAT IN THE MOTEL in the late afternoon light looking out at the dry wash until its striations and shifting grains seemed to her a model of the earth and the moon.
It also left me with Riders on the Storm by The Doors buzzing in my head because of the lyrics…
Riders on the storm, riders on the storm,
into this house we're born, into this world we're thrown
like a dog without a bone, an actor out on loan,
Riders on the storm
and with The End by the Doors and its haunting music with a back sound that reminded me of rattlesnakes and the lyrics mention snakes and highways
There's danger on the edge of town,
ride the king's highway.
Weird scenes inside the gold mine;
ride the highway west, baby.
Ride the snake, ride the snake
to the lake, the ancient lake.
The snake is long, seven miles;
ride the snake, he's old
and his skin is cold
It's probably normal to have all these images and soundtrack since Play it as it Lays is very cinematographic and might have even been written for the cinema. It was made into a film released in 1972, shortly after the book was published and Didion herself wrote the scenario.
It also left me breathless and frustrated. I didn't figure out why things happened that way. I never really understood the undercurrent between the characters. It left me hungry for details, background information, reasons why. It reminded me of novels by Marguerite Duras. I felt like spying on the characters and seeing fragments of their lives, enough to see a picture but not enough to understand them. Didion's visual and concise style enforces that feeling. We have no way to understand Maria. Hell, she doesn't understand herself. She doesn't act, she reacts, on instinct. Helene says she's selfish and she certainly appears to be when she forgets to call Carter when one of his films is released or fails to go and see it. To me, she seemed more wrapped in herself than selfish, too ill to do anything else but survive. You need to have your own basics covered to be able to reach out to someone else. Maria doesn't have that and therefore she's unable to reach out. And nobody really understands it that way.
Didion may try to tell us that sometimes things happen for no reason, that it's useless to try to decipher the whys behind everything.
Catsplay: A tragi-comedy in two acts (1974) by Istvan Örkény (1912-1979) French title: Le chat et la souris. Translated by Natalia Zaremba-Huzsvai and Charles Zaremba. Original title: Macskajáték.
|Nous voulons tous quelque chose les uns des autres. Il n'y a qu'aux vieux qu'on ne demande plus rien.Mais quand les vieux veulent quelque chose les uns des autres, cela nous fait rire.
|We all want something from other people. Old people are the only ones we want nothing from.But when old people want something from other old people, it makes us laugh.
This is the first chapter of Catsplay, a novel by Hungarian writer Istvan Örkény. He was renowned for his short stories and plays and is considered as a master of grotesque. You can find more about his work here. Catsplay is an epistolary-telephone novel and I bet today it would be an email novel like Gut Gegen Nordwind by Daniel Glattauer except that Castplay is a comedy.
Right after that first short chapter, Örkény describes a picture of two sisters taken in 1919. They belong to the local bourgeoisie and they are in their early twenties. We discover later it's a picture of the golden age of Giza and Erzsi Szkalla in Léta, their hometown.
We are now in the 1960s, the sisters are two old ladies. Giza lives in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Germany and Erzsi is still in Budapest. The two sisters keep in touch through letters and phone calls and this is how, us readers know what's happening with their lives. Giza is disabled and stays with her successful son Michou (I'm sure this name has been translated into French). She's well taken care of. Erzsi is the widow of Béla Órban. She's struggling to survive, working as a housekeeper and neglecting herself. Her dissatisfaction with life makes her bitter and cranky. Her only distraction is her weekly diner with Viktor. He's 71, a former opera singer who is now obese and loves to eat.
At the beginning of the novel, she writes to Giza how she had a fight with the butcher and was not even dressed properly. This is when she reconnects with Paula who is four years older than her and used to live in Léta. Paula has a totally different approach to life. She's old but she has not given up on life. She's still interested in pampering, going out and flirting. She turns Erzsi's life upside down and teaches her that she's not dead yet.
Erzsi starts dyeing her hair, wearing more fashionable clothes and seeing Viktor through different eyes. He was her old flame, isn't he still? And isn't Paula trying to steal him from her? Far away in her German comfort, Giza is corseted by propriety and never fails to admonish her sister from afar. She's horrified by her sister's new behavior (and maybe a little jealous).
Catsplay is a comedie de boulevard, one you'd see on stage. It is grotesque in many ways and funny and all. But it is marred with tragedy because the characters are older. They have a past. They were rich and carefree and WWI and the 1929 crisis took it away. Giza has been ill for a long time now and left her country. Her son is more considerate than kind. Erzsi stayed in Budapest and endured WWII and the communist regime. Her marriage was OK but she's not very close to her only daughter. Love is missing in their lives. Erzsi comments:
|On devient aussi minable que sa vie. A force d'être pris pour un rien, on devient un rien.
|You become as pathetic as your life. By being taken for a nothing, you become a nothing.
There's an underlying sadness in her words and it is palpable in her exchanges with her sister about their youth. Paula gives Erzsi the opportunity to have a last ride and enjoy life again. She gives herself a chance to reconnect the old woman she is with the young woman she used to be.
Although it is definitely grotesque, it reflects everyday life in Hungary and a generation who suffered from two world wars, the cold war and lived in troubled times.
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The Linnea trilogy
The Linnea trilogy (my term) is composed of the following books by Katarina Mazetti:
- Det är slut mellan Gud och mej (God and I broke up, available in English) 1995
- Det är slut mellan Rödluvan och vargen (The Red Riding Hood and the Wolf Broke Up. Not translated into English) 1998
- Slutet är bara början (The End Is Only the Beginning. Not translated into English) 2002
I've already read two books by Katarina Mazetti (Benny and Shrimp, the English title is silly because the original means The Guy Next Grave) and Family Grave) and I thought they were good light books. You know, the kind of books that aren't too difficult to read but are still well written? The ones I put in the Beach and Public Transport category? They're relaxing. When I was struggling with Berlin Alexanderplatz, I read God and I Broke Up. When I was drowning in Flan O'Brien's prose, I read The Red Riding Hood and the Wolf Broke Up. And I closed the trilogy with The End Is Only the Beginning. I'm a bit in a rush to finish writing about the 2014 books I've read before the year ends, so I'm writing one billet about the three novellas.
In the first volume, we meet with Linnea. She's sixteen and her best friend Pia has just died. She's grieving while trying to live her adolescence.
|On n'a pas de statut quand on a perdu un ami! Si ton mari meurt, tu deviens veuve, une veuve vêtue de noir et les gens baissent la voix en ta présence pendant des années.Si c'est ton meilleur ami qui meurt, les gens te demandent après quelque temps pourquoi tu broies encore du noir.
|You have no status when you lose a friend! If your husband dies, you become a widow dressed in black and people talk to you in a low voice for years. If your best friend dies, after a while, people ask you why you're still feeling down.
The novella is a first person narrative; we're in Linnea's head and the style reflects perfectly the mix of cockiness and insecurity of adolescence. Losing Pia makes Linnea feel isolated even if in appearances, she's well adjusted. She has rather good grades, socialises with her classmates and takes part in family life. God and I Broke Up is not the portrait of a depressed teenager. It's the portrait of an adolescent who lost her confident, the person she could loosen up with. Linnea used Pia as a sounding board for her ideas and vice versa. She's grieving this precious intimacy. God and I Broke Up is the story of a banal adolescent. She lives in a small Swedish town where there's not much to do, she goes to school and has the usual crushes, stories about classes and lunch breaks. Her mother is divorced and remarried with Ingo, an inspiring artist. He builds artwork with wood and lets his wife be the bread winner. They have a son together, Knotte who's very close to Linnea. She's a middle-class Swedish girl.
The salt of the novella is in the characters, their quirky ways and Linnea's voice. It addresses the typical questions of adolescence: what about God?, what about love?, what about my future? and who am I? And Linnea tells you…
|Il ne faut pas gaspiller sa vie en courant entre les manèges et les stands comme à une fête foraine. Restez là où vous vous sentez vraiment bien. Il vaut mieux se décider en conscience que de laisser tout au hasard. Car il faut se décider. On ne peut pas conduire une moto et écouter le chant des oiseaux en même temps. On ne peut pas être à la fois cascadeuse et heureuse mère de sept enfants.
|You shoudn't waste your life running from one attraction to the other like you would in a funfair. Stay where you feel very good. It's better to make the decision than let chance decided. Because you have to make a decision. You can't ride a motorbike and at the same time listen to the birds singing. You cannot be a stuntman and the happy mother of seven children.
I liked the second volume, The Red Riding Hood and the Wolf Broke Up, less than the first one. I don't know if it's the same in English or in Swedish –the French title is the exact translation of the original Swedish title, I checked— but in French, Elle a vu le loup (literally, She saw the wolf) means She lost her virginity. So in this second opus of the series, Linnea runs away to Los Angeles and loses her virginity on the way there. I was less keen on this one because I found it a bit unrealistic. What is interesting though is the depiction of Los Angeles. It demystifies the American dream that most European adolescents have. Linnea doesn't end up in shiny Rodeo Drive. She ends up in the side of Malibu where people speak Spanish better than English and have two or three crappy jobs to survive. That's a good wake-up call for us who see from the US mostly what the sunny TV series show us.
The last volume relates Linnea's last year of high school…
|Nous voilà au début du premier trimestre de terminale, les professeurs se promènent en levant l'index d'un geste menaçant qui a l'art de plomber l'ambiance : « Ce sera peut-être l'année la plus importante de votre vie, vous comprenez, c'est maintenant que vous décidez de votre avenir !!! »
|Here we are at the beginning of the first period of senior year. The teachers walk around with their index finger raised in a threatening manner and are masters at spoiling the fun: "This may be the most important year of your life, you understand. This is when you decide on your future!!!"
…—it does ring a bell, doesn't it? — and it's about Linnea's first love relationship with Per, Pia's older brother. I thought this volume was as good as the first one. It doesn't go for corny but for funny and real, like here when Linnea describes her attraction to Per:
|La pilosité dans le visage des garçons a quelque chose d'attirant, j'avais l'impression que ses sourcils lançaient des décharges de phéromones, et, pour être franche, je ne peux pas y résister. Une tablette de chocolat sur le ventre ne me fait aucun effet—mais donnez-moi un visage poilu et je craque sur le champ. Parfois je me dis que c'est parce que je n'ai jamais eu de chien quand j'étais petite…
|Hair on a boy's face is attracting. It was as if his eyebrows were shooting pheromones discharges and to be honest, I can't resist it. Six-pack abs do nothing to me but give me a hairy face and I melt on the spot. Sometimes I think it's because I never had a dog as a child.
Er, I suppose the first part of this quote is rather comforting for hairy boys. Please note that in French a six-pack is tablette de chocolat (bars of chocolate). Back to the book. While Linnea contemplates and comments the effects of love on her mind and body, life goes on around her. Her friend Malin is in a tough spot, her grand-mother has a stroke and questions about university linger. Her relationship with Per stems from their connection to Pia and not from common interests so it fizzles over different visions of life. Per is in the military and Linnea's background is rather alternative. Katarina Mazetti is a feminist and Linnea is a quiet feminist as well. She holds her ground and won't let Per control her and that's a valuable message to adolescent girls.
The Linnea trilogy is a light, fun and spot-on read. If you have teenagers around you, I recommend it because it's the kind of book that leaves you relieved as in "Good, I'm not the only one who feels that way". And I think it's a very comforting thought. Plus, it's easy to read and it may be a way to lure some into reading books!
Agnes by Peter Stamm
Agnes by Peter Stamm. 1998 French title: Agnès. Translated by Nicole Roethel.
Preamble: I have read Agnes in French. Sorry for the crash course in French conjugation included in this post but it was relevant to my reading. It also means that I had to translate the quotes into English, so they may not reflect Stamm's style as well as they should.
|Agnes is dead. A story killed her. The only thing I'm left of her is this story. It started nine months ago when we first met in the Chicago Public Library. (my translation)
|Agnes ist tot. Eine Geschichte hat sie getötet. Nichts ist mir von ihr geblieben als diese Geschichte. Sie beginnt an jenem Tag vor neun Monaten, als wir uns in der Chicago Public Library zum ersten Mal trafen.
|Agnès est morte. Une histoire l'a tuée. Il ne me reste d'elle que cette histoire. Elle commence il y a neuf mois, le jour où nous nous sommes rencontrés pour la première fois dans la bibliothèque municipale de Chicago.
These are the first sentences of Peter Stamm's novella, Agnes. You're mentally prepared to read a story with a bad ending.
The unnamed narrator is Swiss and temporarily living in Chicago. He's a writer of non-fiction books and his publisher commissioned him to write a book about luxurious train carriages in the USA. He's in Chicago for research. Agnes is writing her thesis on a scientific theme I'm not able to translate into English. They meet at the Chicago Public Library, go for coffee, smoke together outside the building and gradually fall into a relationship and in love.
The narrator is a lot older than her (at a moment he says he could be her father). He's writing non-fiction because it pays the bills and has abandoned the idea to write a novel. Agnes encourages him to write a story about them. He starts reluctantly but he's soon caught in the game. He writes what happened, writes in advance how he would like things to happen. And their lives become muddled and influenced by the story. There's a sort of twisted pattern where what he writes must happen and eventually guides their actions. It also generates discussions afterwards about Agnes's and his vision of moments they spent together. It's a bit like those books boys used to read when I was a teenager: it's called gamebooks in English but in French it was marketed under livre dont vous êtes le héros. (book in which you are the hero.) You create your own story. That's what Agnes and the narrator embark on and it's a dangerous game.
This novella is excellent, well-constructed and I wanted to know how things unravelled and what happened to Agnes.
Peter Stamm's style sounds formal in French. The translator chose two tenses that are a little dated for contemporary literature in French. For example, Agnes says Mon père y tenait absolument, bien que je détestasse cela. (My father was adamant about it, although I hated it). The détestasse is no longer used in French, especially in dialogues. It is a tense called l'imparfait du subjonctif and nobody uses it in spoken language and hardly ever in written language. The ending in asse sounds heavy and pompous now. Although grammatically incorrect, it has been replaced by the subjonctif présent in common language. It means that the sentence would have been Mon père y tenait absolument, bien que je déteste cela.
I also noticed the use of a past tense called passé simple in the first and second person plural. It's not as dated as the imparfait du subjonctif but it's not so used now for the first and second person plural. In Agnes, I mostly noticed it in descriptions, when the narrator relates his time with Agnes. Again, it sounds heavy and emphatic. For example: Nous louâmes une voiture et, tôt le vendredi matin, nous prîmes la direction du sud. (We rented a car and early on Friday morning, we headed South) I'm not sure a contemporary French writer would have written like this. I imagine more a sentence using another past tense, the passé composé : Nous avons loué une voiture et, tôt le vendredi matin, nous avons pris la direction du sud.
Tony from Tony's Reading List has read Agnes in German and he also speaks excellent French. So I twitted him to know if the German text sounded as formal as the French translation. (See his review of Agnes here) He said that Stamm uses the subjunctive more than other German speaking writers. I hope that Caroline drops by and gives us her opinion about that. So I assume that the translation is accurate and that the use of these tenses in French is the best way to give back the flavour of the German prose.
I'll go further. I also noted down the use of passé antérieur like in this sentence said by Agnes, Même si parfois je l'eus souhaité. (Even if sometimes I wished I did.) Nobody says Je l'eus souhaité anymore. We would say Je l'aurais souhaité. Choosing Je l'eus souhaité gives a sense of narration to the phrase. Indeed, the passé antérieur is not used in spoken language but in written language. It's as if Agnes was speaking in written language because this scene is destined to be included in their novella. It sort of prepares the transcription of what they're living into future literature.
It participates to the feeling of aloofness oozed by the narrator and Agnes. He's always preferred keeping his total freedom than give it up partly to be in a relationship:
|Et la liberté avait toujours été pour moi plus importante que le bonheur. Peut-être était-ce cela que mes petites amies successives avaient appelé égoïsme.
|Freedom had always been more important to me than happiness. Perhaps it was what my successive girlfriends had called selfishness.
Although he claims to be deeply in love with Agnes, he holds himself back. And Agnes does the same about her past and doesn't share much about herself. Both characters are rather hard to define. In appearance, they don't have much in common. They're different in gender, age, nationality, occupation. But they do have the same detachment from their life, as if they were more spectators than actors. I have the impression that they watch themselves live through a glass wall and that the story they write is a literal way to indulge in this tendency. Their love is passionate but cold or reserved. It is difficult to nail, that cold passion. They're detached but not indifferent.
The narrator's voice is strong and unique. Stamm recreates Chicago very well and his characters came to life in my head. It would make a great film by Won Kar Wai or by a French director. I leave you with one last quote that left me thinking…
|Nous pensons tous vivre dans un seul et même monde. Et pourtant, chacun s'agite dans sa propre tanière, ne regarde ni à droite ni à gauche, et ne fait que défricher sa vie en se coupant le chemin du retour avec les déblais.
|We think we all live in one and only world. And yet, each of us stirs in their own burrow, never looking left or right and only clears their life path while cutting their way back with debris.
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
Death in Venice (1912) by Thomas Mann (1875-1955) French title: La mort à Venise. Translated by Félix Bertaux and Charles Sigwalt. (1925)
I happened to be in Venice in November, during German Lit Month. So I decided to re-read Death in Venice by Thomas Mann.
Disclaimer: I have read this in French and I tried to find an English translation of the quotes I wanted to use in this post but I didn't find any. So I did the translations myself which isn't easy with that kind of prose. If you can, read the French text.
Gustav Aschenbach is a famous and ageing writer. He lives a quiet and rather solitary life, working on his books. On a whim, he decides to go to Venice on holiday. He stays at a hotel at the Lido and sees a young adolescent, Tadzio. He's Polish and he's also on holiday with his family. Aschenbach thinks Tadzio is about 14 and he finds him very attractive. The novella describes Aschenbach's growing obsession to the young Tadzio. Where will that lead him?
Death in Venice was written in 1912 and Thomas Mann manages to pack a lot of things in his novella. Thoughts about literature and the role of writers in society, art and homosexuality. Mann really spent time in Venice in 1911 and he said lots of things included in Death in Venice are true. As always with a classic, I can only write my response to it and I won't pretend to analyse anything that more literate people have analysed before me. Hell, some have even tracked down the real Tadzio and written a book about him!
The novella first describes Aschenbach's personality. He's first portrayed at home, in his environment. He's a respectable and respected writer and he was ennobled when he was fifty. He's an institution and he reminded me of Edward Driffield in Cakes and Ale. He's very literate as a writer of his time should be. He has a thorough knowledge of classics and Roman and Greek authors.
|À égale distance de l'excentrique et du banal, son talent était de nature à lui attirer à la fois les suffrages du grand public et cette admiration des connaisseurs qui oblige l'artiste.
|At equal distance between eccentricity and banality, his talent was such that he attracted both general public's attention and the praise from connoisseurs that pleases the artist.
Isn't it the writer's dream? Popular success and peers admiration?
Aschenbach is not a big traveller except for hygienic reasons which, in my mind, says a lot about him. In everyday life, nothing should be done for only hygienic reasons except taking a shower and cleaning the house. Aschenbach seems a tiny little bit uptight and Mann's prose gives it back perfectly. There's nothing funny here, no attempt at irony or humorous vision of life of any kind. He sounds like someone for whom the importance of being earnest must be taken literally. Aschenbach is a stern man, living an ascetic life and he's clearly acting out of character in this novella.
Aschenbach is also a closeted homosexual. It is a novel of its time, he can't be anything but closeted. During the journey to Venice, von Aschenbach sees a group of young people accompanied by an older man.
|Mais l'ayant considéré de plus près, Aschenbach constata avec horreur qu'il avait devant lui un faux jeune homme. Nul doute, c'était un vieux beau. Sa bouche, ses yeux avaient des rides. Le carmin mat de ses joues était du fard, sa chevelure, noire sous le chapeau à ruban de couleur, une perruque; le cou était flasque et fripé; la petite moustache retroussée et la mouche au menton étaient teintes; les dents, que son rire découvrait en une rangée continue, fausses et faites à bon marché, et ses mains qui portaient aux deux index des bagues à camées étaient celles d'un vieillard.
|But seeing him closer, Aschenbach realised with horror that he had a faux young man in front of him. No doubt he was an old beau. His mouth and eyes had wrinkles. The red on his cheeks was make-up. His hair, black under his hat with a colourful ribbon was a wig. His neck was flabby. His little turned-up moustache and the beauty spot on his chin were dyed. His teeth he showed in laughter were aligned but fake and cheap. His hands whose index fingers wore two rings were those of an old man.
It is hard not to think about Sodome et Gomorrhe by Proust when you read this. It could be a description of the ageing Baron de Charlus. Sodome et Gomorrhe was written after Death in Venice. I wasn't able to find out whether Proust could read in German or if the 1925 translation of Death in Venice I read is the first one. (which means it was released in French after Proust's death) So I don't know if Proust had read this novella before writing Sodome et Gomorrhe or not.
Anyway. We readers of Death in Venice are warned before Aschenbach reaches Venice: he's repulsed by old beaus and this group of young men. This passage makes his fall for Tadzio even more tragic and enforces the power his infatuation has over him:
|La passion oblitère le sens critique et se commet de parfaite bonne foi dans des jouissances que de sang-froid l'on trouverait ridicules ou repousserait avec impatience.
|Passion erases good judgment and indulges in perfect good faith in pleasures that one would find ridicule or would reject with impatience where they in thinking clearly.
We feel that he's old, he's managed to keep his homosexuality bottled up and the dam breaks late in life, overcome by the Greek beauty of the young Tadzio. (Of course Tadzio is compared to a Greek statue which I find a bit trite from Mann. Proust is more original in his comparisons, using Renaissance paintings for example.) Poor Aschenbach doesn't know what hit him and I felt pity for the old man struck by such an embarrassing passion at his age.
There is much to say about this rich novella. I enjoyed reading it even if Mann's style is a little too bombastic for my taste. All the stuffy references to Greek myths and Latin sentences didn't age well. It was perfectly clear for the reader of his time (and I believe Max had the same experience with A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) but not so much for today's reader.
That said, the descriptions of Venice are gorgeous and it was a treat to be there and read about it in great style.
I didn't explore here all the thoughts about art and writing displayed in Death in Venice. I don't have time to dig further, unfortunately. I leave you with one quote about writing that I liked particularly.
|La pensée qui peut, tout entière, devenir sentiment, le sentiment qui, tout entier, peut devenir pensée, font le bonheur de l'écrivain.
|Thoughts that can become feelings and feelings that can become thoughts are a writer's happiness.


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Sentiment: Strong Buy
Tender for shares is it still going on? Right Now?
There is tender for AUQ common out by the company those shares don't show up in volume since they are cancelled.
Even, so, you a right the volume will decrease with the current company buy back in place. Plus there is a tender out right now I think for shares. It may have expired? 2millon shares in the mid 8's is the offer from AUQ.
It is the alleged reason XOM is slowing share repurchases with it's cash. Volume to Low.
Commodities have begun to move off the bottom into the summer time, look at the grains.
Gold and Silver soar when grains soar. Grain weather is not a topic right now. Who is buying.
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Sentiment: Hold
Let's bring this back up to the top of the page. This is to funny.
This shows how much you don't when you make these types of statements about the price of grain. China has cancelled their purchase of US soybean contracts in order to purchase Brazilian soybeans. Brazil is having a bumper crop of soybeans and corn. YOU LOOK FOOLISH AS USUAL! YOU TALK THE GAME BUT THE FACTS IS NOT YOUR FRIEND.


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Dalong Cave, situated in the northern suburb of Zhaotong City, is 12 kilometres away from Zhaotong City. There are a large number of quaint architecture communities with the painted beams and carved girders. And an old temple is hidden at the entrance of the cave. In the cave, there are fantastically shaped stalactites and stalagmites suspended from the roof and a little fresh spring with clear water flowing from the cave. Dalong Cave was opened to the public as a scenic area long before.
Dalong Cave Scenic Area is provincial-level nature protection area, is located on the Jiulong Mountain of Zhaoyang District with an area of 425 mu, including the mountain area of 68 hectares, the courtyard area of 28 hectares and the reservoir area of 38 hectares, is a natural forest park and a summer resort for people to go sightseeing, boating and fishing. Dalong Cave is the famous scenic area of Zhaoyang District at present. The water of Dalong Cave is the important water resource basically met production needs and household use of the residents in Zhaoyang. Around the scenic area, there are buildings covering an area of 5,184 aquare meters and forests of 86 hectares, which played an indelible role in development of irrigation and conservancy project of farm land in Zhaotong.
Dalong Taoist Temple, situated on Jiulong Mountain, is surrounded on three sides by mountains. There are also towering pine, cypress trees and airy pavilions. It's a tourist attraction with historical humanity, religious culture and scenic spots. In the Taoist temple, there are 2 palace halls dedicated to some gods and a large number of pavilions amongst mountains. Dalong Taoist Temple was open to the public as a park in 1983. With the renovation of the Taoist temple, more and more tourists and the holy followers come to visit Dalong Taoist Temple.
There are naturally occurring stalactites of grotesque shapes in Dalong Cave, which look like flowers, trees, snakes, birds, animals and even organs of human being. In the ancient times, it is said that the sick with long illness, who failed to respond to medical treatment, would go to Dalong Cave for worship. The sick would make a quick recovery after he drank the Longquan water. At that time, at the source of the Dalong Cave, there used to be a stalactite suspended in the air, which is astonishingly similar to the Guanyin Bodhisattva. It is called the "Feilai Guanyin" which satisfied all demands. Besides, the ancient people of Zhaotong used to pray in Dalong Cave for children. Afterwards, it became a folk custom for people to go to Dalong Cave to pray.
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JUST seven or eight years ago Naples was a sleepy if affluent snowbird resort, with a certain WASP-y charm but not much going on. Now, transformed by the stock market boom, it has found a new life as a second or third home for dot-com millionaires. It oozes big, new mon ey, which has overtaken the WASP-iness. Naples is a place where $5 million won't buy much of a house. The choice ones start at $8 million, and in the Strand, a new gated community within an already double-gated community, houses go for $11 to $25 million.
Naples was in the right place at the right time. It was the last nice relatively undeveloped place in Florida when the boom hit, and its location, once its drawback (practically the last mainland town on the Gulf Coast, the end of the line) became its salvation. Fortunately, it had the wherewithal to fulfill its destiny.
Naples has always been extraordinarily pretty, with bright green St. Augustine grass, tall hedges, banyan trees and those palms that lean at 45-degree angles. But now it has a new look -- money. Only Palm Beach can compare, and Palm Beach seems bulky and dated by comparison. One senses too many ghosts in those old mansions. In Naples everything is lighter, more informal. This is the city that lives the real estate catch phrase ''casual elegance.'' Even the 25-story high-rises that dot the northern end of the beach are airy and almost graceful.
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