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What I’m Reading – Morning Coffee Edition
Most of the time I cannot write a short post. Mine are longwinded things, and often takes a couple days to complete one. But I would like to blog more, so maybe a quick update now and then—for example, over this cup of coffee I’m enjoying before work—is the way forward. A long commute twice Continue reading
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The Duino Elegies – Through Christian Eyes
The Swan: Finding Rilke In this year of personal joy and public tragedy, a little poem called “The Swan” crossed my path. The Austrian poet Rainier Maria Rilke was not unknown to me by name, but it was the first time I had read anything of his. Geoffrey Lehmann’s translation (to be released in a Continue reading
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Emperors of Earth: Rilke, Psalms, and Grief
While on vacation last week, we stopped by some marvelous bookshops, and Mr H treated me to some new books of my choosing, one being a collection of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poems. Rilke—a contemporary and fellow countryman of Franz Kafka—had crossed my radar ages ago. Like many other misfortunates, he was quickly buried under my Continue reading
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Silence and the Samurai
Recently my beloved was in town, and we got to watch a few films together, including Silence (2016). This is the acclaimed adaptation of the novel by Shusaku Endo, which I read and reviewed during the pandemic. Most of you will recall I was really invested in Endo’s writing a few years ago. I read Continue reading
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Hi, I’m Marian—I talk about classics, history, and other books on this blog, as well as on YouTube.
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