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Anmeldelse av Margaret Atwoods Moralsk forvirring i Morgenbladet.

Colm Tóibín har skrevet et essay basert på den fantastiske fortellingen om familien Mann. Fra Thomas’ møte med borgerskapet og konen Katia, til barnas bøker, reiser, seksuelle utsvevelser og selvmord.

«I Could Sleep with All of Them»

Om Klaus og Erika:

Pamela Wedekind married a man old enough to be her father, and the foursome returned to being the twosome of Erika and Klaus Mann. Although Erika played the part of Queen Elisabeth in Schiller’s Don Carlos at the State Theatre in Munich, she longed for greater excitement. And since Klaus was bored and his next play a flop, they decided to go to America, where they were ready to have their genius fully recognised. To amuse themselves, they told the US press that they were twins and thus began the American myth of ‘The Literary Mann Twins’. They went on a tour of the country. ‘Whenever they were stuck for funds,’ Weiss writes, ‘Klaus would write articles and Erika would write letters to organisations, seeking lecture engagements. They often arrived in town with no change in their pockets.’ Soon, they decided to tour the world. They stayed at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo for more than six weeks – ‘kept in that luxurious prison by the evil spell of our unpaid bill’ – and, on being rescued by their father’s publisher, agreed to write a book about their travels as a way of paying him back.

Fortsatt liv i Harold Bloom. Anmelder 1000 sider språkhistorie. Lest på en time vel? Om jiddisch selvfølgelig.

But then, irony is endemic in the very nature of Yiddish, a fusion always conscious of its otherness, whether in regard to German, Russian, or American English.

Hmmm. Joda.

Fuck you, Richard Dawkins.

The prominent atheist is stepping down from his post at Oxford University to write a book aimed at youngsters in which he will warn them against believing in «anti-scientific» fairytales.
Prof Hawkins said: «The book I write next year will be a children’s book on how to think about the world, science thinking contrasted with mythical thinking.

«I haven’t read Harry Potter, I have read Pullman who is the other leading children’s author that one might mention and I love his books. I don’t know what to think about magic and fairy tales.»

Prof Dawkins said he wanted to look at the effects of «bringing children up to believe in spells and wizards».

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«Do not ever call a child a Muslim child or a Christian child – that is a form of child abuse because a young child is too young to know what its views are about the cosmos or morality.

Hvorfor er ateistbarn ok? Fordi det er sant? Dumhet er verre enn løgn.

Esquire back in the day. Covers by George Lois. Ny bok.

Animation blog leading the animation conversation:

Kortfilmer av Bill Plympton for grabs.

Brilliant stop-motion animation:

Anmeldelse av Romeo Gills Harjeet i Morgenbladet.