Sims and Courts - Conclusion
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Oh my, dear Delos, updating this thread is just like Sisyphus rolling his rock up the hill...
Your consistency and courage amazes me! Thank you!
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Sims and Courts - Conclusion
Communty News & Events
By Jove, Monsieur le Duc, it seems like updating this list begins to be a full-time job in itself!!!!
( and asensitive one, considering how touchy some Courts appear to be *smiles*)
Thanks!
What are you Reading?
Book Lovers
Thank you, Milady, for this answer to my queries... I am grateful to have the opportunity, years after my first hesitant reading, to re-discover this 'one-of- a- kind' book through SL!
I hope to be able to join the discussion and meet you in Melioria:-)
What are you Reading?
Book Lovers
Most books mentioned here are biographies, novellized or not, or novels....Following Melioria's invite, I am now re-reading "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy", unfortunately in a French translation which does not pay full justice to Sterne's choice of words, and no justice at all tohisamazing typographical invention. This book is an UFO! and remains such after two centuries and a half....and it is the absolute contrary or denial of biographies and "story-telling" ! There's food in it for other generations of litterate readers as well, andphilosophical humour mixed with anallegria in its writing impetus, that make it hilarious at times (though, I must admit, boring in some parts...) I hope I will have the courage and time to be able to finish it this time 
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I wonder what is the status of this book in other parts of the world, mainly in English -speaking countries,and I am curious about it: is it considered a classic? studied in school, or only in universities? or, according to Mark Twain's definition of a classic: " a book which everyone would like to have read, but which nobody wants to read" ?
In France, it is not well-known at all, and rather considered as a " cult" book among the litterate " happy Few", but no more. A few months ago, I read Diderot's " Jacques le Fataliste" and it bears some resemblance with T.S., in so far as they both try to fill their book with life in a completely new manner, avoiding traditional narrative methods of story-telling. I finished " Jacques le Fataliste", it'sshorter:-)
What are you Reading?
Book Lovers
Maybe you - and I- should attempt to read Louis Sebastien Mercier's " L'an 2440, Rve s'il en fut Jamais",
( "The Year 2440, A Dream if there ever was One"), written in 1771. It is the first acknowledged example of Uchronia, and was a huge bestseller in all Europe. More on the philosophical and political side, though, than sci-fi as we know it now).
What are you Reading?
Book Lovers
Allow me to correct my own mistake, with apologies to all Circassians online: Circassie was not Greece ( where did I get that?) but a part of Caucase.
ss was the french spelling for Acha, I suppose.
What are you Reading?
Book Lovers
No, more seriously, I have been reading "84 Charing Cross Road", by Helen Hanff, "Dusk and other stories", by James Salter, and, closer to our range of interest here, re-reading the magical "Seven Gothic Tales", by Isak Dinesen-Karen Blixen. In French, I read the "Lettres de Mademoiselle Ass": she was a "Circassienne" ( name that was given in Europe to any girl who would have formerly called Greek, then under Ottoman power) and shehad been captured when she was four years old by turkish pirates to be a slave.She was bought to them by the French Ambassador in Istanbul, Monsieur de Ferriol, and brought up in France as a young Lady of the Nobility during the Regency period (between Louis XIV and Louis XV). Unfortunately, her letters do NOT AT ALL mention this adventurous and romantic beginning of her life:I wouldnot recommend reading them except for a " completist" reader of French memoires or letters of these times.Probably her biography would be more interesting, if anyone could find it.
I have begun now a book of extracts of the "Fragments de l'Histoire de ma Vie", by Le Prince de Ligne. This compatriot of Dr Pekel Panacek was one of the most famous, celebrated and cherished aristocrats of all Europe during the late 18th Century. His writing ( all in French, though he was servingin Austrian Army)is lively and elegant, about as many matters as you can imagine: war and women, gardening and arts, etc...) I hope to read more from him, if not everything- it amounts to thousands of pages, gee, they had time to read and write in those days...)
What are you Reading?
Book Lovers
I have been trying hard to read Proust " La Recherche", butI had to give up after 1233 pages, so I am afraid I'll never know who's the murderer.
Introducing Eleanore.
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What happened to your 'former You' is horrible: but welcome to the ' new You' !
Personal passion, talent and skills, fortunately, cannot be hacked nor deactivated, and your new creations are an evidence of it.
I hope they are Transferable, I could not wear them myself, sorry, but I know who to present them with:-)
Westboutin Décor ~ New Releases Coming Soon!
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*speechless, dropping a jaw*
* then pouring himself some cognac to calm his impatience to run to the shop...*