‘What are you dreaming of, sir?’ Mathilde asked him. There was a note of intimacy in her question, and she had come back running and was quite out of breath in her eagerness to be with him. Julian was tired of self-suppression. In a moment of pride, he told frankly what he was thinking. The […]
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Lauren Leto Stereotypes Readers/Authors
I like this. HT Instapundit – I hadn’t heard of Lauren Leto and her blog before, but I found this enjoyable: Stereotyping People by Their Favorite Author (by the way – I respect every author on here, kind of) J.D. Salinger Kids who don’t fit in (duh). Stephenie Meyer People who type like this: OMG. […]
Naval War College International Law Conference and Bleg for French Translation
I’m on radio silence, as I’m at the Naval War College conference on international law, which is where all the cool people are this week. I was last on radio silence finishing up my short policy manuscript on UN-US relations. I’m not sure I’d describe it as “done,” but the editors took it away from me, […]
Saturdays with Stendhal 6
‘One never knows what to say in speaking to our great diplomats,’ said Julien. ‘They have a mania for starting serious discussions. If one confines oneself to the commonplaces of the newspapers, one is reckoned a fool. If one allows oneself to say something true and novel, they are astonished, they do not know how […]
Saturdays with Stendhal 5
In honor of the DC snowstorm – it is still coming down! – this passage from On Love, Book 2, Chapter 50, Love in the United States: In the Winter, which as in Russia is the festive season of the country, young people of both sexes drive about night and day over the snow in […]
Saturdays with Stendhal 4
The Red and the Black, Volume 1, Chapter 26, “The World, Or What the Rich Lack.” After several months of application kept up at every moment, Julien still had the air of a thinker. His way of moving his eyes and opening his lips did not reveal an implicit faith ready to believe everything and […]
Saturdays with Stendhal 3
From The Red and the Black, Volume I, Chapter 34, The Hotel de la Mole (free translation), and yes, I will manage to get it back to Saturdays!: The abbe Pirard to Julien … “The Marquis does not like scribblers bloggers, I warn you; it is his one antipathy. Know Latin, Greek if you can, […]
Saturdays with Stendhal 2
Notional Saturday. Saturday in my heart. This, from On Love: I crave leave to slander France a little more. Actually, not. I am great lover of France. (Recall that the poet Blaise Cendrars, on the outbreak of the First World War, distributed a manifesto proclaiming that all true poets would fight for France. Cendrars joined […]