NP - Cloud Atlas Trailer

[Madeleine Maudlin]

Reminds me of what my uncle told me what I could do with the entire King
James Bible.

That's not true, I can't blame my religious views on my family.


On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Alex Colter <recoignishon at gmail.com>wrote:

> Faulkner's Short Stories continue to have an indelible effect on me. When
> I was 17 I asked my uncle, 'what Faulkner should I start with?'he told me
> first to read the entire King James Bible and then the Collected Short
> Stories, I had done the former but the process of discovering the latter
> was an event that ranks up there with first reciting Whitman to myself or
> reading Gravity's Rainbow for the first time (all occurring in that 17th
> year)
> I have become enamored with Borges lately, via Andrew Hurley's
> translation, and he seems not so much to create new worlds as he does
> invent already created worlds. I began reading him long ago and felt,
> without any drugs, a real "high" from encountering him, it seems he had a
> large effect on the younger Pynchon as well.
>
> I do need to read Chekhov , can anyone recommend a good translation? I am
> always wary of picking up foreign authors, simply because a translation can
> render it either overly accessible or entirely unreadable... in the process
> of amending this through y foreign language studies...
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> JUST IN: CLOUD ATLAS IN TOP 10 AT WHOLESALERS THIS PAST WEEK......
>> Not enough in stores (yet) for most bookstores to report it a
>> bestseller.....
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>> To: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>; Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
>> Cc: Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com>; Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net>;
>> "<malignd at aol.com>" <malignd at aol.com>; "<pynchon-l at waste.org>" <
>> pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 11:50 AM
>> Subject: Re: NP - Cloud Atlas Trailer
>>
>> Sources say, many, many bookstores and wholesalers now sold out of Cloud
>> Atlas....
>> A trailer and movie anticipation work.
>> Many, many more will be reading this than ever
>> have before.....
>>
>> P'raps bestsellerdom BEFORE the movie even opens?
>> We will see.........
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>> To: Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
>> Cc: Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com>; Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net>;
>> "<malignd at aol.com>" <malignd at aol.com>; "<pynchon-l at waste.org>" <
>> pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 11:42 AM
>> Subject: Re: NP - Cloud Atlas Trailer
>>
>> Cloud Atlas - Directors Commentary Intro
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6be25sIaehM#!
>>
>
>
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