***Freelance News*** This is to announce that the strauss-reading list has been re-established -- as a forum for close readings of texts by Leo Strauss. The...
Lancelot R. Fletcher
lance@...
Mar 30, 2000 8:02 am
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***Freelance News*** The Free Lance Academy is pleased to announce the formation of a new slow reading list to support slow readings of Plato's Timaeus. If...
Lancelot R. Fletcher
lance@...
Mar 31, 2000 6:46 pm
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To what extent was Shakespeare influenced by Montaigne? There are passages in several of the plays that suggest that the bard drew on ideas from Montaigne, but...
Jeremy Caplan
jeremycaplan@...
Jun 5, 2000 3:38 am
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Harold Bloom in his recent book on Shakespeare makes lots of connections between Montaigne's and Shakespeare's skepticisms. I was impressed, although I can't...
sidkeith@...
Jun 7, 2000 4:04 pm
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I'm sending this posting just to make sure that the group is still active. Regards, Ronald Kritter Milwaukee, Wisconsin...
Ronald Kritter
ronaldkritter@...
Jun 29, 2000 3:13 pm
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Roger Shattuck's new Proust book has a very illuminating discussion of M's "soul-error."...
Claude Caspar
claudecaspar@...
Jun 29, 2000 5:06 pm
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... Could you say a little more about this, Claude? I have just recently started re-reading Proust -- for the first time in almost 40 years, so I am...
Lancelot R. Fletcher
lance@...
Jun 29, 2000 5:20 pm
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I've read reviews of Proust's Way...but probably won't read the biography. Can you summarize -- I know, no easy task -- the nature of Montaigne's 'soul-error'...
Ronald Kritter
ronaldkritter@...
Jun 29, 2000 5:22 pm
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May I ask if there is a particular essay by M. that is now being read? Is the Screech translation okay to use? (I don't read French, nor speak it for that...
Ronald Kritter
ronaldkritter@...
Jun 29, 2000 5:29 pm
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I am on vacation in Virginia Beach, so don't have any of these books here- am reading the new Borges' collection of Non-fiction, which is terrific. But to...
Claude Caspar
claudecaspar@...
Jun 29, 2000 5:38 pm
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I recently bought Penguin editions of Collected Fictions and Selected Poems by Borges; is your nonfiction collection also a Penguin paperback? ronald kritter/...
ronaldkritter@...
Jun 29, 2000 7:30 pm
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No, it is brand new, much never published (especially in English) before- just came out. Check Amazon....
Claude Caspar
claudecaspar@...
Jun 29, 2000 11:54 pm
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In article <4120006429173033570@...>, Ronald Kritter <ronaldkritter@...> writes ... The slow reading stalled in September 1996! There has...
Philip Baker
phil@...
Jul 2, 2000 9:16 pm
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"The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases." -Montaigne Does any subscriber know from what essay this comes? (I don't...) ...
ronaldkritter@...
Jul 3, 2000 3:08 am
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... Wow, this list is *serious* about s - l - o - w reading. But kidding aside, I think your suggestion is a very good one. Perhaps when the reading begins the...
ronaldkritter@...
Jul 3, 2000 3:29 am
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Philip Baker wrote: Alternatively, we could start with those essays that are in Cotton, starting at essay I ("Of custom and that we should we should not easily...
ronaldkritter@...
Jul 3, 2000 3:42 pm
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Hello, list members. Have been interested in Montaigne for a number of years and what he was trying to do in writing the Essais.Have read him in both French...
John Chettoe
John.Chettoe@...
Jul 5, 2000 8:15 pm
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First a note on texts. I am reading from M.A. Screech's translation and occasionally looking at the French in the GF-Flammarion edition. (My French is far from...
Philip Baker
phil@...
Jul 19, 2000 6:11 pm
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... The definitive work on this subject is by George Coffin Taylor. It is titled "Shakspere's Debt to Montaigne" (Harvard 1925) and while some of his supposed...
edwardmacdowell@...
Jan 13, 2001 9:56 pm
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Abstract: Our economic reward system is not a democratic system because the rewards aren't divided up equally; and the concept of democracy is about equal ...
Blip Bland
fork34lift@...
Jan 20, 2001 8:23 pm
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Hi. Here is my book. It is too long so I send it in 4 parts, this being the first. Please skip over any boring or complex parts. Thanks. Chapter 1/INTRODUCTION...
Blip Bland
fork34lift@...
Jan 20, 2001 8:25 pm
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Here is the second part of my book. HOW WOMEN HAVE GOTTEN THE SHORT END OF THE STICK FROM HISTORY. Life poses a whole new dimension compared to the inanimate....
Blip Bland
fork34lift@...
Jan 20, 2001 8:28 pm
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Here is the second part of my book. HOW WOMEN HAVE GOTTEN THE SHORT END OF THE STICK FROM HISTORY. Life poses a whole new dimension compared to the inanimate....
Blip Bland
fork34lift@...
Jan 20, 2001 8:30 pm
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Here is the third part of my book. Thanks. Next, what about the concept of what a man sows, that shall he also reap? And the sound advice that follows from...
Blip Bland
fork34lift@...
Jan 20, 2001 8:32 pm
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Here is the fourth and final part of my book. Thanks. What about destruction and destructiveness: Do we need it? or can we get by without it? Do we need a...
Blip Bland
fork34lift@...
Jan 20, 2001 8:34 pm
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Please accept my apologies for the book-length spam from Mr. Bland. I normally have my lists set to automatically put new subscribers on moderated status, but...
Lance Fletcher
lrf@...
Jan 21, 2001 4:03 pm
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Does anybody here know where we can obtain an etext of Montaigne's essays in French? Jeremy Caplan was kind enough to upload the Cotton translation to the...
lrf@...
Feb 25, 2001 7:04 pm
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In article <97bku8+6nor@eGroups.com>, lrf@... writes ... There is an HTML version at: http://www.chez.com/trismegiste/montable.htm -- Philip Baker ...
Philip Baker
phil@...
Feb 25, 2001 10:32 pm
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Thanks very much, Philip. I have added that URL to the Bookmarks section of the Website for the Montaigne group. Lancelot Fletcher ... ...
Lancelot R. Fletcher
lrf@...
Feb 26, 2001 12:31 am
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Dear list as a new reader to Montaigne I wonder could anybody recommend a critical companion to the collection? And perhaps tell me which of his essays are...
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