1st wave (ongoing)
A smaller and more focused list here, of what I wish to focus on. A wave here is the part of the whole reading project, which is all of what I most value that I have.
1. Balzac's The Human Comedy -- 900 reading hours, like 9 Miss MacIntosh, My Darlings, which is over 1300 pages. I have to complete this wonderful series before diving into Zola's series. I love the vibes Balzac gives, like in a Renaissance opera set in a spacious hairdresser location. I for some reason base this on one of mom's hairdresser's she had, a suave fellow who flirted with her in an Italian kind of swagger.
2. War and Peace -- I just read ch. 13 before beginning this list which I believe if I keep my thoughts brief can contain around 200 entries. I will edit in important milestones like Parts finished and when the whole thing is finished, but for most of these works, a 2nd read will be necessary.
3. Fyodor Dostoevsky -- I'll focus first off with Crime and Punishment -- i'm right after the crime part and will be fun to experience the punishment one now, or when I get to it, this a huge undertaking and more than 1 wave may be in effect when I run out of room here, ... I think there's a total of 5 pinned posts possible, so up to 5 posts like this can be in effect, by the time of the 6th wave, at least 1 of the previous, logically the 1st should be quasi completed, quasi being initially and not decisively finished, decisiveness is when I'm dead, or in a coma, or if a pack of speaking hounds kidnap me, and put me in a big pot of stew to cook me alive!!
4. Rainer Maria Rilke -- for someone like this I mean everything I have of and about him or her. I am simply astounded by this guy, however i've begun sensing out how he may have been just a wooer, or a simp, in today's parlance, but he had a gift, and I don't want to focus on any simp qualities imagined or real.
5. E.M. Cioran, The Fall Into Time, I love the the Introduction by Charles Newman, he makes some dated observances that I've picked up on lately that may be the reason why this edition hasn't been reissued, and in the Kindle format. Newman's Intro is the best in any of my Cioran books, even better than Sontag in The Temptation to Exist, which unfairly pits Cioran against John Cage of all people!! Cioran is a infinite re-read alumni, and will always be a part of things, like Rilke. When I get a better grasp of my reading project i'll have a special post just about the infinite re-read fellas and gals.
6. The French Moralists -- Montaigne / La Rochefoucauld / Chamfort / La Bruyere / Vauvenargues / Fontenelle -- along with Pascal, and the Spaniard Gracian. These guys are like Life hacks from a few centuries ago, Nietzsche saw them as reigniting the flame of ancient Greek and Roman thought that was dimmed by that which I am hesitant to go into at the moment.
7. Friedrich Nietzsche -- I have my Cambridge paperbacks of Human, All Too Human and Daybreak here, I read 2 pages at a time of those psychologically adept aphorisms at a time, they are my most annotated physical books, which I feel if my dad flipped through them and read what I wrote in the margins and the blank pages at the beginning and end would throw me out and I'd be homeless.
8. William H. Gass -- principally first is his The Tunnel, but many more of his stuff is at play here.
9. William Gaddis -- The Recognitions and JR principally, then when both of those are at least 50% gone through the rest of his work.
10. Plato & Aristotle -- I group these two together because they've been separated for too long and they have such a good chemistry, play off each other so well, i'm doing atm, Republic with Robin Waterfield footnotes and Nicomachean Ethics with no footnotes.
stay tuned, this is my life's work!!
1. Balzac's The Human Comedy -- 900 reading hours, like 9 Miss MacIntosh, My Darlings, which is over 1300 pages. I have to complete this wonderful series before diving into Zola's series. I love the vibes Balzac gives, like in a Renaissance opera set in a spacious hairdresser location. I for some reason base this on one of mom's hairdresser's she had, a suave fellow who flirted with her in an Italian kind of swagger.
2. War and Peace -- I just read ch. 13 before beginning this list which I believe if I keep my thoughts brief can contain around 200 entries. I will edit in important milestones like Parts finished and when the whole thing is finished, but for most of these works, a 2nd read will be necessary.
3. Fyodor Dostoevsky -- I'll focus first off with Crime and Punishment -- i'm right after the crime part and will be fun to experience the punishment one now, or when I get to it, this a huge undertaking and more than 1 wave may be in effect when I run out of room here, ... I think there's a total of 5 pinned posts possible, so up to 5 posts like this can be in effect, by the time of the 6th wave, at least 1 of the previous, logically the 1st should be quasi completed, quasi being initially and not decisively finished, decisiveness is when I'm dead, or in a coma, or if a pack of speaking hounds kidnap me, and put me in a big pot of stew to cook me alive!!
4. Rainer Maria Rilke -- for someone like this I mean everything I have of and about him or her. I am simply astounded by this guy, however i've begun sensing out how he may have been just a wooer, or a simp, in today's parlance, but he had a gift, and I don't want to focus on any simp qualities imagined or real.
5. E.M. Cioran, The Fall Into Time, I love the the Introduction by Charles Newman, he makes some dated observances that I've picked up on lately that may be the reason why this edition hasn't been reissued, and in the Kindle format. Newman's Intro is the best in any of my Cioran books, even better than Sontag in The Temptation to Exist, which unfairly pits Cioran against John Cage of all people!! Cioran is a infinite re-read alumni, and will always be a part of things, like Rilke. When I get a better grasp of my reading project i'll have a special post just about the infinite re-read fellas and gals.
6. The French Moralists -- Montaigne / La Rochefoucauld / Chamfort / La Bruyere / Vauvenargues / Fontenelle -- along with Pascal, and the Spaniard Gracian. These guys are like Life hacks from a few centuries ago, Nietzsche saw them as reigniting the flame of ancient Greek and Roman thought that was dimmed by that which I am hesitant to go into at the moment.
7. Friedrich Nietzsche -- I have my Cambridge paperbacks of Human, All Too Human and Daybreak here, I read 2 pages at a time of those psychologically adept aphorisms at a time, they are my most annotated physical books, which I feel if my dad flipped through them and read what I wrote in the margins and the blank pages at the beginning and end would throw me out and I'd be homeless.
8. William H. Gass -- principally first is his The Tunnel, but many more of his stuff is at play here.
9. William Gaddis -- The Recognitions and JR principally, then when both of those are at least 50% gone through the rest of his work.
10. Plato & Aristotle -- I group these two together because they've been separated for too long and they have such a good chemistry, play off each other so well, i'm doing atm, Republic with Robin Waterfield footnotes and Nicomachean Ethics with no footnotes.
stay tuned, this is my life's work!!
46-50, M
