Me 3AM Magazine�s excellent and enviably substa…
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3AM Magazine�s excellent and enviably substantial blog Buzzwords, written by Spike friend Andrew Gallix, isn�t something I like to keep away from for too long. But lately I couldn�t resize the browser after it shrank to the blog�s custom size. What I mean is, I couldn�t change the default setting for new windows until it fixed itself, I know not how. I�m not very savvy with computers you see. Sometimes, however, my curiosity and boredom leads me to open it up anyway. Yet, at first it didn�t make me happy. On August 3rd, Andrew links to Julian Evans� Guardian article, and companion piece to the Radio 3 series, about European literature: The Romantic Road. I listened to it with patience, and then with poorly-concealed frustration. In the Austrian episode, and as revealed in the article, he fails to even mention the two best Austrian writers of the last century: Handke and Bernhard. I could forgive the latter as he got a programme all for himself recently, but to ignore Handke is astonishing. As you read this, just imagine me writhing on the carpet biting my thumbs as I try to contain my rage.
However, in the post below Mr Gallix cheers me up by quoting my own blog from the other night about Pilger. He calls it �very interesting�. Mmm�.
But going back to the original blog, Andrew refers to Witold Gombrowicz as a great Polish novelist, which I can�t vouch for. But I have read the first volume of his Diary. (I found all three volumes for �1 each. Amazing what you can find if you�re bookshop stalker). The first page, written in 1953, begins:
Monday
Me
Tuesday
Me
Wednesday
Me
Thursday
Me
You know, I couldn�t have put it better myself.
Other SpikeMagazine.com posts of interest:
- 3AM Magazine: Buzzwords Blog Revamp
- Better late
- Weekender Just taken out a subscription to Wand…
- Choosing the adjective
- Literary luvvies I recently had the pleasure of…
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