tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33019812.post5488765483688569258..comments2024-01-15T05:26:06.518+00:00Comments on THOUGHTS OF XANADU: Susan SontagKubla Khanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11973223751363547679noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33019812.post-14903061220333432102007-08-21T19:38:00.000+01:002007-08-21T19:38:00.000+01:00The Sebald essay, called A mind in mourning is an ...The Sebald essay, called A mind in mourning is an excellent one. It does not refer to Austerlitz though.Kubla Khanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11973223751363547679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33019812.post-40911574034040499032007-08-21T18:57:00.000+01:002007-08-21T18:57:00.000+01:00the comfort is there are always enough books. If i...the comfort is there are always enough books. If it is not this one it is another one reads. I also keep buying more books, all the time.<BR/>But I think I will be reading the Sebald essay.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33019812.post-40333742107645211912007-08-20T21:51:00.000+01:002007-08-20T21:51:00.000+01:00Some books wait in the shelves and we never pick t...Some books wait in the shelves and we never pick them up. perhaps they too don't seek us.<BR/>There is not time enough to read everything. even reading is a sultry, greedy affair. i have got scores of unsettled battles on my shelves.<BR/>and yet, i keep on buying more books.<BR/><BR/>yes, reading sontag is a great experience.Kubla Khanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11973223751363547679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33019812.post-30720096353402355442007-08-20T21:00:00.000+01:002007-08-20T21:00:00.000+01:00it's strange really for years and years i collect ...it's strange really for years and years i collect her books and have probably almost all fo them, yet i never really have read her apart from some few little things (and for instance started her Vulcano-prose book, but did not finish it), but those intrigiued me so much to collect her books yet also somehow it was never enough to get me to read them. I think I will now, after what you have written. I thought one day when I have lots of time and books patiently wait in their shelf.*https://www.blogger.com/profile/05680450955867041830noreply@blogger.com