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  1. abecedarian
  2. silverseason
    I thought we were friends already! I haven't posted to my blog since the blog interface deteriorated so badly. I'm not sure whether I want to continue with it at all if they don't get it fixed. I always enjoyed reading your blog entries and I used mine to keep a record of some of my reading.
  3. Peder
    LawnTamer,
    Many thanks for the comment about the blog. It is very much appreciated.
    Yes, way back my grandparents were Norwegian and came to America about the turn of the last century, in 1903. We have been New Yorkers ever since.
  4. LawnTamer
    Hi Peder, I couldn't help but notice you have a Scandinavian name. Are you by chance Scandinavian? I lived in Iceland, have been to Denmark 2x and studied Swedish in college. I like your blog.
  5. Libra
  6. Peder
    3rd July 2008 07:00 PM
    Peder
    Hi Libra,
    I've been studying up on Gilgamesh since you asked. I've now looked at (nay, have) several versions but am uncertain about which ones you are referring to. From what I've seen there are certainly differences in translation, but none that obscure the story and the inpsiring fact for me that one is reading the words as they unfold and were written down 3-4000 some odd years ago. I'll probably be putting up a blog post on my comparison and reactions.
    (I'm also uncertain whether you will be looking here for this response or in your own profile, so I'm posting in both places. One day I'll get this system figured out. )
  7. Libra
    3rd July 2008 06:07 AM
    Libra
    Me? incorrigible? pas vrai! ummm, wait a minute, deja vous...oh yes, hubby has mentioned it also but in other words.

    All kidding aside, the story sounds good.My Antonia could stand alone if it's another generation because it follows different families life from generations back I think, , but to know there is another book out there that precedes her story and how she got where she is you can't avoid it.

    And a quick question, I have ordered the gilgamesh epic, what do you think about it? Is the narration better or the novel?
  8. Peder
    20th May 2008 08:48 PM
    Peder
    Hi SFG, glad to see you again. I'm trying out the new climate over here.

    And very pleased to meet you, harrypotterrox
  9. SFG75
    20th May 2008 04:19 PM
    SFG75
    Great to see you posting old chap! Hope things are going well for you and yours.
  10. harrypotterrox

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  • About Peder
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    I read. Almost anything.
    Location
    Wherever the thoughts go
    Interests
    Crypto, poetry
    Occupation
    Retired - EE/IT
    Currently Reading
    Your Face Tomorrow, vol 1, by Javier Marias
    Reading Next
    Always wondering about it. Celan?
    Top Three Books
    The Bible
    The Quest of the Historical Jesus - Schweitzer
    The Gilgamesh Epic
    Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions - John Donne
    Top Three Authors
    The best 3? Never! I'll start with:
    St. Paul, Donne, Proust, Nabokov, V. Woolf, Faulkner
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    ". . . . know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

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Posted 6th January 2010 at 12:10 AM by Peder Comments 2
Posted in Essays
Six Levels of Internet Conversation

Coversation on the Internet runs a wide gamut from placid to heatedly adversarial, as usual polite norms of face-to-face personal conversation are set a side in greater or lesser degree. The following is my summary based on observation and personal experience after a number of years. I hope nobody is personally or specifically offended -- moderators and admins especially. It is a dangerous topic to write about and no insult or criticism is intended,...

Posted 1st January 2010 at 08:17 PM by Peder Comments 0
Posted in Book Lists
Must-reads for the coming year are already stacking up here:

Possession by A. S. Byatt. Finished in January.
Your Face Tomorrow (3 vols) by Javier Marias
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
The Original of Laura by Vladimir Nabokov
Verdun by Jules Romains
Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner
Who Killed Jesus? by John Dominic Crossan

January
1/3 Possession by A. S. Byatt
1/18 2666 by Roberto Bolano. A reread....

Posted 30th August 2009 at 10:10 PM by Peder Comments 0
Posted in Memories
Nightmare

Two nights ago I was sitting in my office at work, whiling away the minutes, when the receptionist rang and said the applicant had arrived.
I went down to the reception area and met the most stunningly beautiful young woman I had ever seen. She was sleekly dressed in an exquisite business suit, had designer-cut and coiffed hair, and was beautifully made up with eye-shadowed doe eyes, blusher, the works. She looked as if she had come straight from the cover of Vogue...

Posted 28th August 2009 at 04:32 PM by Peder Comments 0
Posted in Poetry
Just Stop

My Muse rebuked me
just this morning
as she woke me
from my nightmare

Stop being
so all-consuming
wrapped up
in your own self
your own wants
your own thoughts
your own doubts
your own fears
your own horrors
your own agony
your own
nightmares
just
stop

Posted 26th August 2009 at 12:22 PM by Peder Comments 3
Posted in Poetry
Modern Cities Disguise

Modern cities disguise
within their gleaming aluminized walls
and silver blinded aqua windows
reflecting back the heat and light of day
with mirrored views of cloudless sky
plains of horizontal tops of desks
with legs beneath torsos above computers on
between the vertical sinews of shafts and cables
and tendons of steel and cubicle walls
connected aloft by aetherized conversation
segments...
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