It is Vacation time now for Streamy
It is time to cease all activity on SW for a goodly amount of time to devote to reading, the following is what is currently being read. The schemata here of a chronological ordering is complicated by for example some ancient works where the date of publication is contested, for example:
The Mahabharata and Ramayana, the 4 Vedas, the Upanishads, and other Hindu texts. I am very pleased i have the good translation of Mahabharata from z-library. That 10 volume work shall be in the mix for 2023, with it's epilogue volume.
SW is a place to be social, and i don't see how i can be social with all i've set out to read, and the films on The Criterion Channel. It's a solitary mission for me, there is a glee i get from sharing, but it doesn't extend the way it should into discussion. I never learned how to converse at length, only a very very few examples in all my years, 2 of whom are treasured members here to this day.
The 4 great classic novels of China will be read chronologically one at a time, but i needed to include them all here so i have a mental time image of where they sit, all dates are from goodreads.
1. Water Margin Tales of the Marshes - Shi Nai'an - 1370
2. Romance of the Three Kingdoms - Luo Guanzhong - 1522
3. Essays - Montaigne (Screech) - 1580
4. Journey to the West - Wu Cheng'en - 1592
5.The Anatomy of Melancholy - Robert Burton - 1621
6. Maxims - La Rochefoucauld - 1665
7. The Characters - La Bruyere - 1687
8. Dream of the Red Chamber - Cao Xueqin - 1791
9. Selected Poems and Fragments - Friedrich Holderlin - 1843
10. Middlemarch - George Eliot - 1872
11. The Other Side - Alfred Kubin - 1909
12. Look Homeward, Angel - Thomas Wolfe - 1929
13. Player Piano - Kurt Vonnegut - 1952
14. Lord of Dark Places - Hal Bennett - 1970
15. Hitler - Joachim Fest - 1974
16. On the Mountain - Thomas Bernhard - 1981
17. Essays and Letters - Friedrich Holderlin - 2009
18. Friedrich Nietzsche - Julian Young - 2010
19. Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 - Stephen Kotkin - 2014
An improved a complete list will appear much later, i think a 200 list would be better, i will read a total of no less than 8 hours a day or wake period, and i wish you all a good end of the year and a surprisingly satisfying 2023. Love y'all ☮️
The Mahabharata and Ramayana, the 4 Vedas, the Upanishads, and other Hindu texts. I am very pleased i have the good translation of Mahabharata from z-library. That 10 volume work shall be in the mix for 2023, with it's epilogue volume.
SW is a place to be social, and i don't see how i can be social with all i've set out to read, and the films on The Criterion Channel. It's a solitary mission for me, there is a glee i get from sharing, but it doesn't extend the way it should into discussion. I never learned how to converse at length, only a very very few examples in all my years, 2 of whom are treasured members here to this day.
The 4 great classic novels of China will be read chronologically one at a time, but i needed to include them all here so i have a mental time image of where they sit, all dates are from goodreads.
1. Water Margin Tales of the Marshes - Shi Nai'an - 1370
2. Romance of the Three Kingdoms - Luo Guanzhong - 1522
3. Essays - Montaigne (Screech) - 1580
4. Journey to the West - Wu Cheng'en - 1592
5.The Anatomy of Melancholy - Robert Burton - 1621
6. Maxims - La Rochefoucauld - 1665
7. The Characters - La Bruyere - 1687
8. Dream of the Red Chamber - Cao Xueqin - 1791
9. Selected Poems and Fragments - Friedrich Holderlin - 1843
10. Middlemarch - George Eliot - 1872
11. The Other Side - Alfred Kubin - 1909
12. Look Homeward, Angel - Thomas Wolfe - 1929
13. Player Piano - Kurt Vonnegut - 1952
14. Lord of Dark Places - Hal Bennett - 1970
15. Hitler - Joachim Fest - 1974
16. On the Mountain - Thomas Bernhard - 1981
17. Essays and Letters - Friedrich Holderlin - 2009
18. Friedrich Nietzsche - Julian Young - 2010
19. Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 - Stephen Kotkin - 2014
An improved a complete list will appear much later, i think a 200 list would be better, i will read a total of no less than 8 hours a day or wake period, and i wish you all a good end of the year and a surprisingly satisfying 2023. Love y'all ☮️
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