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Jun 3rd, 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 5th, 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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Reply #2 - Jun 5th, 2013 at 9:34am
 
The Book of Samuel I [O.T.]        Wink


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"....And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead."
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Reply #3 - Jun 5th, 2013 at 10:41am
 
We'll expect to hear from you again in three months and 17 days.
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Reply #4 - Jun 5th, 2013 at 11:09am
 
Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series..(Again)
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Reply #5 - Jun 5th, 2013 at 11:20am
 
Dan Browns 'Inferno'
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Reply #6 - Jun 5th, 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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Reply #7 - Jun 5th, 2013 at 12:57pm
 

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Roth is always an excellent read.

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Reply #8 - Jun 5th, 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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Reply #9 - Jun 5th, 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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Reply #10 - Jun 6th, 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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Reply #11 - Jun 6th, 2013 at 2:00pm
 
Sounds interesting. Can you expand a bit? Name a few people?
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Reply #12 - Jun 6th, 2013 at 5:46pm
 
bogarde73 wrote on Jun 6th, 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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Reply #13 - Jun 7th, 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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Reply #14 - Jun 7th, 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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