Chess players and similar authors - 2006/07/14 00:51Paul Morphy - Edgar Poe William Steinitz - Gustave Fluabert Emanuel Lasker - James Joyce José Capablanca - Ernest Hemingway Alexander Alekhine - Tolstoy Mikhail Tal - Borges Garry Kasparov - Gabreil Garcia Marqeuz. ---------
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
re:Chess players and similar authors - 2006/07/14 01:25Speaking of Marconi....
Abgelegenes Haus (für Günter Eich)
Wenn ich erwach schweight das Haus. Nur die Vögel lärmen. Ich sehe aus dem Fenster niemand. Hier
führt keine Straße vorbei. Es ist kein Draht am Himmel und kein Draht in der Erde. Ruhig liegt das Lebendige unter dem Beil.
Ich setze das Wasser auf. Ich schneide mein Brot. Unruhig drücke ich auf den roten Knopf des kleinen Transistors.
"Karibische Krise.... wäscht weißer und weißer und weißer... einsatzbereit... Stufe drei... 'That's the way I love you...' Montanwerte kräftig erholt..."
Ich nehme nicht das Beil. Ich schlage das Gerät nicht in Stücke. Die Stimme des Schreckens beruhigt mich, sie sagt: Wir sind noch am Leben.
Das Haus schweigt. Ich weiß nicht, wie man Fallen stellt und ein Axt macht aus Flintstein, wenn die letzte Schneide verrostet ist.. ---------
Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - especially if he has a teenage daughter. - Guy Albert Lombardo
re:Chess players and similar authors - 2006/07/14 03:23"Flank Openings" is good, IMHO.. ---------
Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - especially if he has a teenage daughter. - Guy Albert Lombardo
re:Chess players and similar authors - 2006/07/14 04:06Also nah, doesn't like it at all, is not T. Waits a 'muso' anyway?. Actuaslly, your Tal|Borges & Poe|Morphy alludings had never importantly occured to me, nor any of the otrhers, to be frank, but, interesting, nonetheless. For that matter anyone for Nabakov?... ---------
All the people throughout my life who were naysayers pissed me off. But they've all given me a fervor; an angry ambition that cannot be stopped - and I look forward to finding a therapist and working on that.
re:Chess players and similar authors - 2006/07/14 05:10Viktor Korcvhnoi - Tom Waits
I dont like Keene, but I think he has written two good books: the 1974 K-K Match one with Wm Hartyston and I think that one about Aron Nimzowitsch was supposed to be quite good. No others though.. ---------
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
re:Chess players and similar authors - 2006/07/14 05:23Nicholas Shakespeare is a contemporary writer, who has written a biography of Bruce Chatwin (1940-1989).. ---------
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
re:Chess players and similar authors - 2006/07/14 06:08'What Am I Doing Here?' was written by Bruce Chatwin. (And when did Bob Hope appear in Patagonia?)
Gwendolen : Ernest! My own Ernest! I felt from the first that you could have no other name! Jack : Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth? Can you forgive me? Gwendolen : I can. For I feel that you are sure to change. Jack : My own one! ... Algernon : Cecily! (Embraces her.) At last! Jack : Gwendolen! (Embraces her.) At last! Lady Bracknell: My nephew, you seem to be displaying signs of triviality. Jack : On the contrary, Aunt Augusta, I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.. ---------
I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
re:Chess players and similar authors - 2006/07/14 06:28I would just like to add:
Robert Fischer - John Cage Viktor Korchnoi - Nicolas Slonimsky Alexander Kotov - Arnold Schönberg Raymond Keene - Raymond Keene
Guess what I do for a living (hint: that last one was thrown in as a distraction)
Never use a preposition to end a post in a literary thread with.. ---------
Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - especially if he has a teenage daughter. - Guy Albert Lombardo
re:Chess players and similar authors - 2006/07/14 07:29Why Lance, you described me as a chessplayer, I'm touched.
Concerning the comparison with Tolstoy, even now I seem to detect a certain subterranean rotation somewhere in Yasnaya Polyana.... ---------
Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - especially if he has a teenage daughter. - Guy Albert Lombardo
re:Chess players and similar authors - 2006/07/14 07:46Hah! In a nutshell (foreign lingo done over)
Specifically modern Times (C. Chaplin). ---------
All the people throughout my life who were naysayers pissed me off. But they've all given me a fervor; an angry ambition that cannot be stopped - and I look forward to finding a therapist and working on that.
re:Chess players and similar authors - 2006/07/14 08:19Both of these are witty, but the earlier one, owing to its greater immediacy, was the funnier, and the easier to identify with.. ---------
Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - especially if he has a teenage daughter. - Guy Albert Lombardo
re:Chess players and similar authors - 2006/07/14 08:37early nothing much witch the Count did, except whitch he was a very well writer.. ---------
War is fear cloaked in courage.
re:Chess players and similar authors - 2006/07/14 09:33Exatcly what are you guys softly talking about?. ---------
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
re:Chess players and similar authors - 2006/07/14 10:22Keene? Why brought an author who�s books no one wants to be read to out of up for?. ---------
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. - Publilius Syrus (b. 42 AD)
re:Chess players and similar authors - 2006/07/14 11:25It's a good thing that's your name because thats what people call you.. ---------
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
re:Chess players and similar authors - 2006/07/14 12:22If it was a compliment and if Stan Booz were much more literate, then I might wonder about whether he thought that I wrote more like Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, or Edward de Vere.
'Time and ignorance, the two great supporters of imposture.' ---------
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
re:Chess players and similar authors - 2006/07/14 13:28Yeah, & softly fuck you too, you unpoetic dog turd... ---------
All the people throughout my life who were naysayers pissed me off. But they've all given me a fervor; an angry ambition that cannot be stopped - and I look forward to finding a therapist and working on that.
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