re re-re-reading
János Széky
miksaapja at gmail.com
Tue Oct 29 11:13:58 CDT 2013
Name: Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Year of birth: 1953
Favourite book: Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Favourite place: home (farm in Southern Estonia)
Favourite music: Arcade Fire, Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly
Source of inspiration: forest - See more at:
http://www.president.ee/en/media/interviews/3329-qpresident-ilves-thoughts-about-europe-and-americaq-korjaamo/#sthash.IaSHtkEt.dpuf
2013/10/29 Heikki Raudaskoski <hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi>
>
>
> Sorry for the belated answer Thomas, been AWOL from the list for
> a few days...
>
> Estonia's political scene is quite peculiar. To begin with, the
> tensions between the Estonian-speaking and Russian-speaking populations
> make things more complicated. There are left-center conservatives (largely
> supported by Russian-speakers), right-wing conservatives and free-market
> liberalists. Ilves' party, Social Democratic Party, isn't really any of
> the above. And the party does not have too many blue-collar supporters.
> Maybe the closest parallel would be the Liberal Party in the UK.
>
>
> Heikki
>
> On Sat, 26 Oct 2013, Thomas Eckhardt wrote:
>
> > Great! I missed that old posting of yours, Heikki. Do his politics match
> > his exquisite taste in literature and music? A-and what kind of politics
> > would that be?
> >
> > Ah, I see, he has no executive power...
> >
> > Tohomas
> >
> >
> >
> > Am 26.10.2013 19:09, schrieb Heikki Raudaskoski:
> > >
> > >
> > > Toomas Hendrik Ilves, the President of Estonia, tweeted one hour ago
> > > (thanks for bringing this to my attention, Janos Szeky!):
> > >
> > > "Attn RE-readers of Nabokov, @andreapitzer 's Secret History will make
> > > you see the canon anew and become a RE-re-reader. #reZemblance (sic!)"
> > >
> > > https://twitter.com/IlvesToomas/status/394118263342260225
> > >
> > > On Pitzer's Secret History, see e.g.:
> > > http://www.bookslut.com/nonfiction/2013_05_020065.php
> > >
> > > About President Ilves, see e.g.:
> > >
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0710&msg=122024&keywords=toomas
> > >
> > >
> > > Heikki
> > > -
> > > Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
> > >
> >
> -
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