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What are you currently reading?
Jun 3^rd, 2013 at 1:59pm

Found a fascinating book called "The Dillen". It's really an oral history of a man born in 1878, who lived for 99 years in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Edited by his grand-daughter Angela Hewins, it describes in detail what it was like to live as a member of the underclass before & after the Great War, before any welfare or social assistance.
True life history.

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Reply #1 - Jun 5^th, 2013 at 9:24am

A bit of a digression, but it's on the same theme and I intend to read it again soon. It should appeal to imcrook & KAT.
There was a wonderful Australian writer, Kylie Tennant, who wrote about the people who travelled the roads during the Depression (the real one that is).
The book's called The Battlers . . .worth a read.
(It was also made into a TV series but I haven't been able to find that)

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Yadda Gold Member Offline Posts: 20956 A cat with a view	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #2 - Jun 5^th, 2013 at 9:34am The Book of Samuel I [O.T.]
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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #3 - Jun 5^th, 2013 at 10:41am We'll expect to hear from you again in three months and 17 days.
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gizmo_2655 Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 16010 South West NSW Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #4 - Jun 5^th, 2013 at 11:09am Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series..(Again)
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John Smith Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 72209 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #5 - Jun 5^th, 2013 at 11:20am Dan Browns 'Inferno'
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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #6 - Jun 5^th, 2013 at 12:20pm Did I forget to say, what are you currently reading, what's it about & what's it like. . .
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greggerypeccary Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 131492 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #7 - Jun 5^th, 2013 at 12:57pm Roth is always an excellent read.
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FriYAY Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 7395	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #8 - Jun 5^th, 2013 at 3:13pm TESCO Supermarkets Food Manufacturing Standard – Version 5. 167 pages of absolute pain. Then I get to implement it – oh hoofknray for me.
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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #9 - Jun 5^th, 2013 at 3:16pm Tell us more. Does it have instructions on how to slip some horse into the ready-to-heat burgers?
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Postmodern Trendoid III Gold Member Offline Posts: 10259 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #10 - Jun 6^th, 2013 at 10:59am The Longing for Myth in Germany by G. S. Williamson. A fascinating read. It's about how German thinkers in the 1800 were rejecting the ideas of individualism and capitalism for Romanticism.
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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #11 - Jun 6^th, 2013 at 2:00pm Sounds interesting. Can you expand a bit? Name a few people?
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Reply #12 - Jun 6^th, 2013 at 5:46pm

bogarde73 wrote on Jun 6^th, 2013 at 2:00pm:

Sounds interesting. Can you expand a bit? Name a few people?

I am currently reading the chapter on Wagner. He was influenced by a number of people: Feuerbach, Grimm, Muller, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, and later Schopenhauer.

The Romantics didn't want to go down the path of England and France with individualism and capitalism. They rejected materialism but were also international socialists, but not material international socialists. Romanticism inserts a mysticism into existence, which makes the universal brotherhood of man not just a material movement related to the means of production. Wagner uses his operas and symbols to mystify the world and bring people together under the influence of his dramas. This made people "feel" they were attached to their fellow man and the earth rather than just having a relationship based on being proletariats.

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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #13 - Jun 7^th, 2013 at 11:15am I suppose that's roughly a similar view to people like Wordsworth & Byron although they were a lot earler than Wagner. Not my cup of tea really. I can only take opera in small doses like the 3 tenors.
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Postmodern Trendoid III Gold Member Offline Posts: 10259 Gender:	Re: What are you currently reading? Reply #14 - Jun 7^th, 2013 at 11:50am I just find it interesting because they brought forth alternative ideas to the dominant ones of the day, even if they sound a bit silly. Today we have no alternatives being brought forth. It's liberal theory and economic and cultural socialism, and that seems to be about it.
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