Bob Bowden
@malvu82.bsky.social
83 year old reader, music lover, art lover. Faves Beethoven, John Coltrane, Rembrandt, Beckett, Shakespeare etc etc
Reading James and enjoying it. Love the conceit that among themselves the blacks speak good English but I think it’s pushing it to have them considering whether something is an example of proleptic irony or dramatic irony !?
March 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Reading James and enjoying it. Love the conceit that among themselves the blacks speak good English but I think it’s pushing it to have them considering whether something is an example of proleptic irony or dramatic irony !?
That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves or none or few do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold
Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang
WS
When yellow leaves or none or few do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold
Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang
WS
March 4, 2025 at 11:08 AM
That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves or none or few do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold
Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang
WS
When yellow leaves or none or few do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold
Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang
WS
We should all be so lucky ! I am !
February 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
We should all be so lucky ! I am !
I am 83 and on a whim I have created a list of the 83 books I would read again given the time ! I shall read a few until ………
January 31, 2025 at 10:49 AM
I am 83 and on a whim I have created a list of the 83 books I would read again given the time ! I shall read a few until ………
Royal Shakespeare Co new season announced incl. Measure for Measure, Winter’s Tale and Titus Andronicus !!😁😁
January 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Royal Shakespeare Co new season announced incl. Measure for Measure, Winter’s Tale and Titus Andronicus !!😁😁
Holocaust Memorial day .
As the Palestinians return to their piles of rubble to find their slaughtered children !😱😱😱😱
As the Palestinians return to their piles of rubble to find their slaughtered children !😱😱😱😱
January 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Holocaust Memorial day .
As the Palestinians return to their piles of rubble to find their slaughtered children !😱😱😱😱
As the Palestinians return to their piles of rubble to find their slaughtered children !😱😱😱😱
War and Peace in the Pevear and Volokhonski translation.
In fact if you read any Russian novel that is available in the P and V translation , get it !
Therese by Francois Mauriac
In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck
Dubliners by James Joyce
All books that will inform your life.?
In fact if you read any Russian novel that is available in the P and V translation , get it !
Therese by Francois Mauriac
In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck
Dubliners by James Joyce
All books that will inform your life.?
January 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM
War and Peace in the Pevear and Volokhonski translation.
In fact if you read any Russian novel that is available in the P and V translation , get it !
Therese by Francois Mauriac
In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck
Dubliners by James Joyce
All books that will inform your life.?
In fact if you read any Russian novel that is available in the P and V translation , get it !
Therese by Francois Mauriac
In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck
Dubliners by James Joyce
All books that will inform your life.?
Indent by Cecil Taylor
Any of the seven albums by the original Ornette Coleman quartet on the Atlantic label.
Out to Lunch by Eric Dolphy
Any of the seven albums by the original Ornette Coleman quartet on the Atlantic label.
Out to Lunch by Eric Dolphy
December 29, 2024 at 11:31 AM
Indent by Cecil Taylor
Any of the seven albums by the original Ornette Coleman quartet on the Atlantic label.
Out to Lunch by Eric Dolphy
Any of the seven albums by the original Ornette Coleman quartet on the Atlantic label.
Out to Lunch by Eric Dolphy
Paintings
Bathsheba reading King David’s letter by Rembrandt
Self portrait by Rembrandt in National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh
And the one in Nat Gallery, Trafalgar Square
Carravagio’s Dinner at Emmeaus also in Nat Gallery London
Bathsheba reading King David’s letter by Rembrandt
Self portrait by Rembrandt in National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh
And the one in Nat Gallery, Trafalgar Square
Carravagio’s Dinner at Emmeaus also in Nat Gallery London
December 27, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Paintings
Bathsheba reading King David’s letter by Rembrandt
Self portrait by Rembrandt in National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh
And the one in Nat Gallery, Trafalgar Square
Carravagio’s Dinner at Emmeaus also in Nat Gallery London
Bathsheba reading King David’s letter by Rembrandt
Self portrait by Rembrandt in National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh
And the one in Nat Gallery, Trafalgar Square
Carravagio’s Dinner at Emmeaus also in Nat Gallery London
Music
A Love Supreme live recording Antibes 1965. John Coltrane
Interstellar Space album of duets - Coltrane and drummer Rashied Ali
Porgy and Bess. Miles Davis with Gil Evans Orchestra
Kind of Blue - of course !!!!
Any solo Thelonious Monk album.
A Love Supreme live recording Antibes 1965. John Coltrane
Interstellar Space album of duets - Coltrane and drummer Rashied Ali
Porgy and Bess. Miles Davis with Gil Evans Orchestra
Kind of Blue - of course !!!!
Any solo Thelonious Monk album.
December 27, 2024 at 12:40 PM
Music
A Love Supreme live recording Antibes 1965. John Coltrane
Interstellar Space album of duets - Coltrane and drummer Rashied Ali
Porgy and Bess. Miles Davis with Gil Evans Orchestra
Kind of Blue - of course !!!!
Any solo Thelonious Monk album.
A Love Supreme live recording Antibes 1965. John Coltrane
Interstellar Space album of duets - Coltrane and drummer Rashied Ali
Porgy and Bess. Miles Davis with Gil Evans Orchestra
Kind of Blue - of course !!!!
Any solo Thelonious Monk album.
Music
Goldberg variations.
Greatest five minutes of music
Benedictus from Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis.
Goldberg variations.
Greatest five minutes of music
Benedictus from Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis.
December 27, 2024 at 12:34 PM
Music
Goldberg variations.
Greatest five minutes of music
Benedictus from Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis.
Goldberg variations.
Greatest five minutes of music
Benedictus from Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis.
The greatest movie is Mirror directed by Andrei Tarkovsky.
Greatest western The Wild Bunch directed by Sam Peckinpah.
Greatest gangster Goodfellas directed by Martin Scorcese
War film The Deer Hunter directed by Michael Cimino
Unclassifiable Taxi Driver directed by Martin again
More to follow
Greatest western The Wild Bunch directed by Sam Peckinpah.
Greatest gangster Goodfellas directed by Martin Scorcese
War film The Deer Hunter directed by Michael Cimino
Unclassifiable Taxi Driver directed by Martin again
More to follow
December 20, 2024 at 4:27 PM
The greatest movie is Mirror directed by Andrei Tarkovsky.
Greatest western The Wild Bunch directed by Sam Peckinpah.
Greatest gangster Goodfellas directed by Martin Scorcese
War film The Deer Hunter directed by Michael Cimino
Unclassifiable Taxi Driver directed by Martin again
More to follow
Greatest western The Wild Bunch directed by Sam Peckinpah.
Greatest gangster Goodfellas directed by Martin Scorcese
War film The Deer Hunter directed by Michael Cimino
Unclassifiable Taxi Driver directed by Martin again
More to follow
Not possible not to mention Gisèlle Pelicot ! What a brave woman ! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
December 19, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Not possible not to mention Gisèlle Pelicot ! What a brave woman ! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Been away for health reasons
Favourite pieces of music.
First two .
Beethoven string quartet no. 14
Beethoven piano sonata no. 32. The arietta.
For me, the two greatest works ever composed.
Favourite pieces of music.
First two .
Beethoven string quartet no. 14
Beethoven piano sonata no. 32. The arietta.
For me, the two greatest works ever composed.
December 19, 2024 at 7:15 PM
Been away for health reasons
Favourite pieces of music.
First two .
Beethoven string quartet no. 14
Beethoven piano sonata no. 32. The arietta.
For me, the two greatest works ever composed.
Favourite pieces of music.
First two .
Beethoven string quartet no. 14
Beethoven piano sonata no. 32. The arietta.
For me, the two greatest works ever composed.
One of my favourite quotes
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Denis Diderot
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Denis Diderot
November 28, 2024 at 3:54 PM
One of my favourite quotes
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Denis Diderot
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Denis Diderot
Anna Karenina
As I Lay Dying
Crime and Punishment
Moby Dick
Jude The Obscure
Molloy
Our Mutual Friend
Blood Meridian
Under the Volcano
Recollection of a Journey
As I Lay Dying
Crime and Punishment
Moby Dick
Jude The Obscure
Molloy
Our Mutual Friend
Blood Meridian
Under the Volcano
Recollection of a Journey
November 28, 2024 at 2:40 PM
Anna Karenina
As I Lay Dying
Crime and Punishment
Moby Dick
Jude The Obscure
Molloy
Our Mutual Friend
Blood Meridian
Under the Volcano
Recollection of a Journey
As I Lay Dying
Crime and Punishment
Moby Dick
Jude The Obscure
Molloy
Our Mutual Friend
Blood Meridian
Under the Volcano
Recollection of a Journey
Where’s my post of an hour ago gone ??????
November 27, 2024 at 12:00 PM
Where’s my post of an hour ago gone ??????
More and more facilities may ‘Disneyfy’ it. I’d rather it was left as monument, car park. It’s isolation without any trimmings increases the majesty and mystery. For me. But I am an old fart. Make things too comfortable for people and they’ll mess it up. Seen it all my life.
November 27, 2024 at 10:53 AM
More and more facilities may ‘Disneyfy’ it. I’d rather it was left as monument, car park. It’s isolation without any trimmings increases the majesty and mystery. For me. But I am an old fart. Make things too comfortable for people and they’ll mess it up. Seen it all my life.
I have read for 78 years and have read a vast amount, among which are a few books that are achievements so profound that I would see them as great books that once read leave something within you for life.
November 23, 2024 at 2:40 PM
I have read for 78 years and have read a vast amount, among which are a few books that are achievements so profound that I would see them as great books that once read leave something within you for life.
Lewis, Outer Hebrides
November 22, 2024 at 2:56 PM
Lewis, Outer Hebrides
Look
And finished in next post
And finished in next post
November 22, 2024 at 2:43 PM
Look
And finished in next post
And finished in next post