What are you currently Rereading?

[zamyrabyrd]

"The Complete Short Stories of Somerset Maugham" reread after a couple years.

This is a boxed two volume collection published in 1953. I got it on Ebay, repaired the edging on the slipcase with black origami paper.
I just like the feel of handling those noble tomes...

[Florestan]

Among the books I constantly reread poetry gets the pride of place; besides Romanian poets, it's mostly Baudelaire, Poe, Rilke, Trakl, Esenin and Pessoa.

Also, Pascal's Meditations.

[Elgarian Redux]

Among the books I constantly reread poetry gets the pride of place; besides Romanian poets, it's mostly Baudelaire, Poe, Rilke, Trakl, Esenin and Pessoa.

Also, Pascal's Meditations.

By comparison, most of my current re-reading is almost entirely frivolous.

[Florestan]

By comparison, most of my current re-reading is almost entirely frivolous.

I guess it's balanced by most of my current listenings.

[Ghost of Baron Scarpia]

By comparison, most of my current re-reading is almost entirely frivolous.

And Baudelaire isn't frivolous?

[Ghost of Baron Scarpia]

I don't re-read much. Started the process of re-reading Conrad and Faulkner. I guess I've read most Dostoyevsky more than once.

[Florestan]

And Baudelaire isn't frivolous?

Judge for yourself. 

L'albatros

Souvent, pour s'amuser, les hommes d'équipage
Prennent des albatros, vastes oiseaux des mers,
Qui suivent, indolents compagnons de voyage,
Le navire glissant sur les gouffres amers.

A peine les ont-ils déposés sur les planches,
Que ces rois de l'azur, maladroits et honteux,
Laissent piteusement leurs grandes ailes blanches
Comme des avirons traîner à côté d'eux.

Ce voyageur ailé, comme il est gauche et veule !
Lui, naguère si beau, qu'il est comique et laid !
L'un agace son bec avec un brûle-gueule,
L'autre mime, en boitant, l'infirme qui volait !

Le Poète est semblable au prince des nuées
Qui hante la tempête et se rit de l'archer ;
Exilé sur le sol au milieu des huées,
Ses ailes de géant l'empêchent de marcher.

[Florestan]

Conrad

One of my favorite writers.

[Ghost of Baron Scarpia]

Judge for yourself. 

L'albatros

Souvent, pour s'amuser, les hommes d'équipage
Prennent des albatros, vastes oiseaux des mers,
Qui suivent, indolents compagnons de voyage,
Le navire glissant sur les gouffres amers.

A peine les ont-ils déposés sur les planches,
Que ces rois de l'azur, maladroits et honteux,
Laissent piteusement leurs grandes ailes blanches
Comme des avirons traîner à côté d'eux.

Ce voyageur ailé, comme il est gauche et veule !
Lui, naguère si beau, qu'il est comique et laid !
L'un agace son bec avec un brûle-gueule,
L'autre mime, en boitant, l'infirme qui volait !

Le Poète est semblable au prince des nuées
Qui hante la tempête et se rit de l'archer ;
Exilé sur le sol au milieu des huées,
Ses ailes de géant l'empêchent de marcher.

I will quote my hero, Daddy Pig, upon encountering the French Language.

"They're talking nonsense!"

[Florestan]

I will quote my hero, Daddy Pig, upon encountering the French Language.

"They're talking nonsense!"

[Karl Henning]

The French don't care what they do actually, as long as they pronounce it properly.

[Ken B]

"The Complete Short Stories of Somerset Maugham" reread after a couple years.

This is a boxed two volume collection published in 1953. I got it on Ebay, repaired the edging on the slipcase with black origami paper.
I just like the feel of handling those noble tomes...

Those are wonderful stories. Have you seen the movies Quartet and Trio, each anthologies of several stories?

I had those hardcovers long ago. Now I have Kindle.

[Florestan]

The French don't care what they do actually, as long as they pronounce it properly.

Seriously now, imho French poetry --- which I am able to read in original --- is on a par with the German and English one; Russian and Spanish are not far behind, either. Of course Romanian poetry tops them all... 

[Ken B]

Seriously now, imho French poetry --- which I am able to read in original --- is on a par with the German and English one; Russian and Spanish are not far behind, either. Of course Romanian poetry tops them all... 

I see at least 56 different poems named "Oda pentru victimele mele"

[Florestan]

I see at least 56 different poems named "Oda pentru victimele mele"

If you can spot the error in the spelling and come up with the right one I'll forgive your obsession.

[Elgarian Redux]

And Baudelaire isn't frivolous?

Well then, you can imagine how frivolous my current rereadings are.

[Ghost of Baron Scarpia]

Well then, you can imagine how frivolous my current rereadings are.

Landau and Lifshitz? 

[Florestan]

Well then, you can imagine how frivolous my current rereadings are.

"It is easy to be solemn, it is so hard to be frivolous." ― G K Chesterton

[Florestan]

Landau and Lifshitz? 

When it comes to frivolity they can't hold a candle to Feynman, blessed be his soul. 

[Elgarian Redux]

"It is easy to be solemn, it is so hard to be frivolous." ― G K Chesterton

Here is wisdom. When I am being frivolous, I do try to take it very seriously.