Member: chrisbrooke

Last Christmas I'd been telling her about what Fourier says about the giraffe and the reindeer, and she'd written it down and hung onto it for a whole 12 months. Amazing. I also got Hobsbawm, 'Resistance, Rebellion and Jazz', which includes a whole chapter on Billie Holiday. I can't wait to be enlightened as to her contribution to the revolution effort!

posted by DLSmithies at 6:25 am (EST) on Dec 2, 2007

A law school friend bought me Fourier for my birthday! On opening it I immediately turned to the giraffe passage and read it to her. She seemed a bit baffeld but was glad I was so happy!

posted by DLSmithies at 6:06 am (EST) on Dec 2, 2007

I too have read some Cicero recently - Penguin Classics published his "Murder Trials" speeches, it's brilliant stuff. "But I must stop now. I can no longer speak for tears - and my client has ordered that tears are not to be used in his defence." That's somewhere in Sextus Roscius, but now I can't find it for the life of me. Frustrating!

posted by DLSmithies at 6:15 am (EST) on Oct 17, 2007

Glad you had some luck at Hackenberg!

posted by markell at 3:44 pm (EST) on Mar 1, 2007

i have the mclellan, the communist manifesto, capital 1 and 3 (all penguin editions), the econ and philos manuscripts of 1844 (in the eric fromm marx's concept of man text). others - german ideology, 18th brumaire, poverty of philospohy - Ive read library copies of. thanks for your advice.

posted by Scrybe at 1:25 pm (EST) on Feb 14, 2007

I'm looking to flesh out my collection of Marx (I took the Marxism paper but only have the collected works and a couple of others at the moment) - are there any good english editions of his/engels' work that you could recommend? I'm particularly interested in getting the econ and philos manuscripts, as I've got the eric fromm book and want to look at this piece of marx's work more closely. many thanks for any tips/advice you might be able to offer. :-)

posted by Scrybe at 10:42 am (EST) on Feb 14, 2007

Congratulations on being the first on LT with Nick Cohen's "What's Left ?" - from the 2nd owner thereof on LT. But who rembers the 2nd guy on the Moon ?
Tom

posted by tmcarew at 12:18 pm (EST) on Jan 25, 2007

Thanks for posting the urls for Bartels critique of Frank and Frank's response. I had been meaning to look that up...

posted by mensheviklibrarian at 10:07 pm (EST) on Dec 9, 2006

We share an impressive 43 books. Do you suppose this means you've had some sort of influence on me...?
I'm hoping to treat myself to that Fourier book some time soon. I love the giraffe, I really do.
Debs

posted by DLSmithies at 4:55 pm (EST) on Nov 4, 2006

Thanks. I'm English myself, although I live in the US, and, consequently, am influenced by American usage. Cheers.

posted by Fledgist at 2:09 pm (EST) on Feb 5, 2006

Haven't read it yet, I'm afraid.

(I suspect that may be the answer to any number of comments and queries posted here...)

posted by chrisbrooke at 2:22 pm (EST) on Sep 29, 2005

I can't believe I'm not the only person to have "The Death of Jean Moulin: Biography of a Ghost" listed.

Did you enjoy it? I'm reading it now and must admit I had no idea how chaotic politics in France between the wars had been.

posted by willoughby at 8:54 pm (EST) on Sep 28, 2005