Frank Beck
@diehoren.bsky.social
I am a writer and translator. My most recent project is 'Anneliese's House' by Lou Andreas-Salomé, which I translated with Raleigh Whitinger. The profile image is from the wallpaper in William Morris's drawing room. My website is www.diehoren.com.
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Nocturne, Night Lights In Suburbia: acrylic on canvas
November 14, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Nocturne, Night Lights In Suburbia: acrylic on canvas
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AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
November 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time' is a novel that unfolds over seven volumes. But, if you wanted to sample one or two of them, where should you start? This writer has an idea:
Ranking Each Volume of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time
The volumes of the classic novel, arbitrarily ranked for you.
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November 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time' is a novel that unfolds over seven volumes. But, if you wanted to sample one or two of them, where should you start? This writer has an idea:
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Federal Plaza, 2:30 PM.
See you there.
See you there.
November 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Federal Plaza, 2:30 PM.
See you there.
See you there.
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Autumn of misty skies and troubled horizons,
with your pale dawns and your hasty sunsets,
I watch go by, like a rush of water,
your days filled with melancholy.
Armand Silvestre (my translation)
with your pale dawns and your hasty sunsets,
I watch go by, like a rush of water,
your days filled with melancholy.
Armand Silvestre (my translation)
Fauré : Automne Op.18 n°3
YouTube video by France Musique concerts
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November 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Autumn of misty skies and troubled horizons,
with your pale dawns and your hasty sunsets,
I watch go by, like a rush of water,
your days filled with melancholy.
Armand Silvestre (my translation)
with your pale dawns and your hasty sunsets,
I watch go by, like a rush of water,
your days filled with melancholy.
Armand Silvestre (my translation)
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This is a test. Of yr attention span. (I've never seen such long self-revealing questions--it's quite moving--an open book on @ezraklein.bsky.social 's fears as a parent). Also *totally* essential reading.
‘Our Kids Are the Least Flourishing Generation We Know Of’ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/o...
‘Our Kids Are the Least Flourishing Generation We Know Of’ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/o...
Opinion | ‘Our Kids Are the Least Flourishing Generation We Know Of’
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
This is a test. Of yr attention span. (I've never seen such long self-revealing questions--it's quite moving--an open book on @ezraklein.bsky.social 's fears as a parent). Also *totally* essential reading.
‘Our Kids Are the Least Flourishing Generation We Know Of’ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/o...
‘Our Kids Are the Least Flourishing Generation We Know Of’ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/o...
These must be two of the most widely quoted lines on the internet: 'Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror./Only keep going: no feeling is final.'
I wonder how many people who type those words or read them know the whole poem the lines come from. Here it is:
I wonder how many people who type those words or read them know the whole poem the lines come from. Here it is:
"God speaks to each of us"
Portrait of Rilke by his brother-in-law, Helmut Westhoff (1901) God speaks to each of us, even as he makes us, then leads us out ...
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November 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
These must be two of the most widely quoted lines on the internet: 'Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror./Only keep going: no feeling is final.'
I wonder how many people who type those words or read them know the whole poem the lines come from. Here it is:
I wonder how many people who type those words or read them know the whole poem the lines come from. Here it is:
Mamdani at the Crossroads www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Niela Orr | Mamdani at the Crossroads
The percolating instrumentation of ‘New York’, Ja Rule’s piercing 2004 posse cut, was playing on my TV, and Zohran...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Mamdani at the Crossroads www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
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The days of thanking veterans today and forgetting them tomorrow has to come to an end.
November 11, 2025 at 11:17 PM
The days of thanking veterans today and forgetting them tomorrow has to come to an end.
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A real president does this.
Thank you to every veteran who’s worn the uniform and carried the weight for the rest of us — just respect 🇺🇸
Thank you to every veteran who’s worn the uniform and carried the weight for the rest of us — just respect 🇺🇸
November 11, 2025 at 7:26 PM
A real president does this.
Thank you to every veteran who’s worn the uniform and carried the weight for the rest of us — just respect 🇺🇸
Thank you to every veteran who’s worn the uniform and carried the weight for the rest of us — just respect 🇺🇸
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Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
How much self-loathing does it take to need this?
Look at what this garish, classless, tasteless fool has done to the People’s House.
November 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
How much self-loathing does it take to need this?
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Portrait of Madame Maillol,' (1895)
was painted in the second part of Aristide Malliol's career. His painting style altered after viewing Paul Gauguin's work at an exhibition in the Café Volpini in 1889; after Gauguin left for Tahiti, Maillol turned to sculpture.
was painted in the second part of Aristide Malliol's career. His painting style altered after viewing Paul Gauguin's work at an exhibition in the Café Volpini in 1889; after Gauguin left for Tahiti, Maillol turned to sculpture.
November 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Portrait of Madame Maillol,' (1895)
was painted in the second part of Aristide Malliol's career. His painting style altered after viewing Paul Gauguin's work at an exhibition in the Café Volpini in 1889; after Gauguin left for Tahiti, Maillol turned to sculpture.
was painted in the second part of Aristide Malliol's career. His painting style altered after viewing Paul Gauguin's work at an exhibition in the Café Volpini in 1889; after Gauguin left for Tahiti, Maillol turned to sculpture.
Autumn of misty skies and troubled horizons,
with your pale dawns and your hasty sunsets,
I watch go by, like a rush of water,
your days filled with melancholy.
Armand Silvestre (my translation)
with your pale dawns and your hasty sunsets,
I watch go by, like a rush of water,
your days filled with melancholy.
Armand Silvestre (my translation)
Fauré : Automne Op.18 n°3
YouTube video by France Musique concerts
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Autumn of misty skies and troubled horizons,
with your pale dawns and your hasty sunsets,
I watch go by, like a rush of water,
your days filled with melancholy.
Armand Silvestre (my translation)
with your pale dawns and your hasty sunsets,
I watch go by, like a rush of water,
your days filled with melancholy.
Armand Silvestre (my translation)
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Emil Rosenstand
(1859-1932)
Danish painter who lived in Germany.
"Summer Afternoon"
1895
Watercolor - 26.8 x 20.3 cm
Private collection
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
(1859-1932)
Danish painter who lived in Germany.
"Summer Afternoon"
1895
Watercolor - 26.8 x 20.3 cm
Private collection
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
November 9, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Emil Rosenstand
(1859-1932)
Danish painter who lived in Germany.
"Summer Afternoon"
1895
Watercolor - 26.8 x 20.3 cm
Private collection
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
(1859-1932)
Danish painter who lived in Germany.
"Summer Afternoon"
1895
Watercolor - 26.8 x 20.3 cm
Private collection
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
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'Your turning down a story doesn't make it any worse, any more than your taking it makes it better; so the effort, to please and challenge myself, remains the same.'
John Updike, in a letter to his New Yorker editor, Roger Angel
More on Updike's selected letters in Comments.
John Updike, in a letter to his New Yorker editor, Roger Angel
More on Updike's selected letters in Comments.
November 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
'Your turning down a story doesn't make it any worse, any more than your taking it makes it better; so the effort, to please and challenge myself, remains the same.'
John Updike, in a letter to his New Yorker editor, Roger Angel
More on Updike's selected letters in Comments.
John Updike, in a letter to his New Yorker editor, Roger Angel
More on Updike's selected letters in Comments.
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One of my favorite passages from Charlotte Mandel's new translation of volume two of Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time' (p. 387.) Details about the book in Comments.
November 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
One of my favorite passages from Charlotte Mandel's new translation of volume two of Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time' (p. 387.) Details about the book in Comments.
'Your turning down a story doesn't make it any worse, any more than your taking it makes it better; so the effort, to please and challenge myself, remains the same.'
John Updike, in a letter to his New Yorker editor, Roger Angel
More on Updike's selected letters in Comments.
John Updike, in a letter to his New Yorker editor, Roger Angel
More on Updike's selected letters in Comments.
November 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
'Your turning down a story doesn't make it any worse, any more than your taking it makes it better; so the effort, to please and challenge myself, remains the same.'
John Updike, in a letter to his New Yorker editor, Roger Angel
More on Updike's selected letters in Comments.
John Updike, in a letter to his New Yorker editor, Roger Angel
More on Updike's selected letters in Comments.
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JD Vance was raised on government assistance.
Perfect snapshot of who he really is…
Perfect snapshot of who he really is…
November 8, 2025 at 2:02 AM
JD Vance was raised on government assistance.
Perfect snapshot of who he really is…
Perfect snapshot of who he really is…
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Felix Vallotton's noir sensibility shows in his Hopper-like portrait (1896) of Felix Fenéon the editor of the literary and arts magazine La Revue Blanche working at night by a window, the dark panes framing piles of blank white paper.
November 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Felix Vallotton's noir sensibility shows in his Hopper-like portrait (1896) of Felix Fenéon the editor of the literary and arts magazine La Revue Blanche working at night by a window, the dark panes framing piles of blank white paper.
One of my favorite passages from Charlotte Mandel's new translation of volume two of Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time' (p. 387.) Details about the book in Comments.
November 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
One of my favorite passages from Charlotte Mandel's new translation of volume two of Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time' (p. 387.) Details about the book in Comments.
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In a new monograph from Classiques Garnier, Arthur Morisseau looks at the fictional and real composers connected with the character Vinteuil in Proust's 'In search of lost time'. Morisseau will discuss writers and their composers in Paris on November 15.
More at the link in Comments.
More at the link in Comments.
November 6, 2025 at 6:21 PM
In a new monograph from Classiques Garnier, Arthur Morisseau looks at the fictional and real composers connected with the character Vinteuil in Proust's 'In search of lost time'. Morisseau will discuss writers and their composers in Paris on November 15.
More at the link in Comments.
More at the link in Comments.
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'Instead of succumbing to nostalgic glorification, Richard Linklater [in 'Novelle Vague'] dissects the myths with subtle irony, cinephile tenderness, and his typical curiosity about the creative process.'
Mia Pflüger for Kino-Zeit in Germany; my translation.
I'll post the trailer in Comments.
Mia Pflüger for Kino-Zeit in Germany; my translation.
I'll post the trailer in Comments.
October 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
'Instead of succumbing to nostalgic glorification, Richard Linklater [in 'Novelle Vague'] dissects the myths with subtle irony, cinephile tenderness, and his typical curiosity about the creative process.'
Mia Pflüger for Kino-Zeit in Germany; my translation.
I'll post the trailer in Comments.
Mia Pflüger for Kino-Zeit in Germany; my translation.
I'll post the trailer in Comments.
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Poet Anne Carson calls this meditation of hers on one of Proust's most memorable characters "The Albetine Workout". (Catherine Tillette played her in the 2011 French miniseries based on 'In search of lost time.')
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...
November 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Poet Anne Carson calls this meditation of hers on one of Proust's most memorable characters "The Albetine Workout". (Catherine Tillette played her in the 2011 French miniseries based on 'In search of lost time.')
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...