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The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li

It seems that in the current Zeitgeist that an interest has developed in just how our attitudes and perception can be governed by the stories we tell ourselves. Though some of these stories may be phantasy rather than fantasy, as pertly unconcious.

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The Chinese-born writer Yiyun Li has been on my radar for a while, ever since her 2019 novel Where Reasons End popped up in my Twitter timeline with recommendations from readers I trust. Published last year with equally positive reviews, The Book of Goose is my first experience of Li’s work, but hopefully not my last. It’s a strange, compelling, captivating novel, full of different layers and ideas. On one level, we have a story about childhood friendship, devotion, manipulation and the power dynamics of relationships; but on another, the novel digs deep into the power of storytelling and the games children play to escape boredom – how fantasies can become truths if we pursue them too avidly, blurring the lines between the real and the imaginary. There’s so much to absorb with this one, and I’ll probably be thinking about it for a long time to come…

The book…

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Stepan Kolesnikov: Russian Peasant Women

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Stepan Fedorovich Kolesnikov (Russian, 1879-1955), Russian peasant women, signed in Latin (lower right), gouache on artist’s board, 49.5 x 64cm (19 1/2 x 25 3/16in), Image Source: Bonhams

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Beach Picnic, Torrey Pines, California

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Brecht und Bach

I am quite unfamiliar with Bach but the parallels sound interesting.
Ich kenne Bach nicht, aber die Parallelen klingen interessant.

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Das bürgerliche Theater, das Brecht tendenziell mit dem Theater überhaupt verwechselte, der simple, einsträhnige Bühnen-Thriller, der die Welt im Namen von Einheit, Ganzheit und Abgeschlossenheit von den Brettern verbannt, die sie bedeuten sollen und allen Akzent auf Spannung und Einfühlung legt – er repräsentiert nur einen Ausschnitt der europäischen Theatertradition. Diese ist mehrheitlich: „episch“, vieldimensional, „antiaristotelisch“, selbstreflexiv.

Schon die antike Bühne setzte auf das Mit- und Nebeneinander von Szene und Orchester, gesprochenen und gesungenen Partien, Handlung und Reflexion, Action und Besinnung. Das Theater späterer Zeiten kannte Prologfiguren, Zwischenspiele, allegorische Chöre, auch Figuren wie den halb innerhalb, halb außerhalb der Handlung stehenden Narren. Oder es ließ, als »teatro des mundo«, durchblicken, dass die Welt nichts als ein Theaterstück mit feststehenden, zuvor festgelegten Rollen sei: ein Arrangement, in dem die Handelnden sie selbst nicht sind, sondern spielen. Mit ihnen kann man sich nicht identifizieren. Diese Künstlichkeit steigert sich noch in den multimedialen…

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I Read A Novel

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Which is really about all you could do with one, eh?

Not alone in this. All over the world there are people who read books. They are catered for by people who write them, publish them, and stock them in shops and libraries. Don’t think all the action takes place on a lighted screen…a great deal of the world’s thought uses paper.

The books I fish out of the local libraries are stocked there by librarians, who are largely of the female persuasion. As a consequence, many of the works are what appeal to them, and would appeal to other females. I would say ladies, but some of the novels were not written by, nor evidently intended, for the better classes. How they get past the prim minders is another question that I do not propose to either pose or answer. I value my head.

A current anthology features a…

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Gustave Loiseau: Le cathédrale de Rouen (1927)

Excellent- lovely painting

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Gustave Loiseau (1865-1935), Le cathédrale de Rouen, signed ‘G Loiseau’ (lower right), oil on canvas 18 1/8 x 15 in. (46 x 38.1 cm.), Painted in 1927, Image Source: Christie’s

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Autoportrait Day 315~ Ángeles Santos Torroella

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Alexandre Tharaud: Les barricades mystérieuses (Couperin)

She looks maybe a little confined by the role society expects of her?

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GEORGE SPENCER WATSON, R.A., R.W.S., R.O.I. (BRITISH, 1869-1934), Dorothy, daughter of F.J. Elliott Esq., signed and dated ‘G Spencer Watson/ 1929’ (lower left) oil on canvas, 561⁄4 x 401⁄8 in. (142.9 x 102 cm.), Image Source: Christie’s

I wonder what the story is behind her expression….

Is she bored? forlorn? disinterested? hopeless?

Maybe some music will help.

Performed live in the Galerie des Glaces at the Château de Versailles in July 2020, Alexandre Tharaud plays Les Barricades Mystérieuses (The Mysterious Barricades) by baroque composer François Couperin. Filmed on 6 July 2020.

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Snowy Day, Central Park, New York City

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Stingray City, The Grand Cayman Islands