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flemmings ([personal profile] flemmings) wrote2020-11-04 04:09 pm
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 Finished the yoghurt last night so this morning I had a scoop of ice cream on my oatmeal. It was yum. Didn't need to be followed later in the day by a brownie, but these are the End Times and a single brownie is excusable.

Finished?

Roanhorse, Trail of Lightning
-- not for the faint of heart, but well: I finished it, go me

Rankin, Bleeding Hearts
-- not for the faint of heart and  why did they kill the second victim anyway, who was as unconnected to the Great Big Secret as you could get? Why not off the protagonist, who was actually getting close?

Reading now?

Miner, Japanese Poetic Diaries
-- currently Narrow Road to the Deep North. Sweet Basho.

Still more Kafuka, getting woo-wooer by the page.

Next up?

I have a couple of holds that the library will deliver in its own good time. Otherwise there's that war time set Ellery Queen.

Abandoned?

Man, I really want to throw Lowell's Imitations in the recycle. His poetry does nothing for me and his attitude sucks.

Supernatural Sherlocks
-- none of whom are Sherlock, in the event. What they are is the soi-disant Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, but all battling ghosts and such, stuff I shouldn't be reading alone at night.

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[personal profile] kore 2020-11-04 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Lowell's Imitations are so fucking bad! I think they got a lot of attention and awards way back in the day. From what I remember, he took EXISTING TRANSLATIONS and "I translated them into English," aka Lowell-ese. Pound did the same kind of thing with Chinese poetry of course.
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[personal profile] kore 2020-11-05 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
We could say Lowell is an insipid imitation of Pound! Ah ah ah ah! //opera laugh

....or I could, I'm super fucking punchy from staring at MSNBC all night and a lot of today.