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So glad you're doing this one !

Listening from a tug boat somewhere on the Sargasso Sea.

Thank you, greatest book ever after infinite jest.

My favourite novel of all time

Wow. This is a nice surprise! Love this novel.

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Fascinating stories of Echo and Narcissus ... and very clever special effects! Bra--vo!

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Deeply affecting! As per your usual standard you have palpated the beating heart of the work, and found that sense resignation within and between the words.

No, Sylvia Plath didn't kill her children, but she very nearly killed the man with the flat downstairs (Trevor Thomas) whose bedroom was flooded with carbon monoxide seeping down through Sylvia's floor. I've never been convinced that being suicidal yourself is a fair defence against being reckless with other folks' lives. But it's possible my view of Plath's poetry is jaundiced through having known Al Alvarez (very slightly) in the early 1970s (around the time he was writing The Savage God). Plath's suicide blighted Dr Alvarez' life, he deserved better than that.

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oops did I miss thie aniversary reading, my apologies to Jack and of course you APoetryChannel, thanks so much!

Yes yes yes! Wonderful, Lori! I did not know anything about the Picasso or the Amazing Kremos Family Acrobats connections, that's absolutely fascinating.

“If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don't bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible reason to stay at home doing one-hitters and watching MTV on primary day. By all means stay home if you want, but don't bullshit yourself that you're not voting. In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.” -David Foster Wallace

I realize that Plath’s marriage is infected with all sorts of controversy and perceived through and/or reinforce by our own sociological views but the book by Diane Middlebrook , ‘Her Husband, Ted Hughes &Sylvia Plath Marriage’ , does a fine and objective job in accessing the impact this marriage had on these two individuals’ lives and on their art

So, I've got this far now in my readings along with you of the Zenith translation of The Book of Disquiet. I checked out your channel too, marvellous stuff! I first came across Pessoa some years ago in the orchards of Kent in Southern England where I'd made friends with three ladies from Lisbon who were over to pick apples for the Summer, which was how I would spend my Summers back then and would invite them at weekends to stay at my crazy huge house in East London where I lived with a bunch of other people (we are still in touch those ladies and I). They found out I was writing poetry and gifted me a selected Pessoa in English, beautifully translated by Jonathon Griffin. I became enamoured and fascinated! As you have, I often quote to myself these lines from Caeiro I have no ambitions or wants. To be a poet is no ambition of mine. It is my way of staying alone. This resonates so much with me as one of my favourite 20th century poets, Patrick Kavanagh, had written in the Author's Note to his Collected Poems (1964) 'I would not object if some critic said I wasn't a poet at all. Indeed, trying to think of oneself as a poet is a peculiar business. What does it feel like to be a poet? I am always shy of calling myself a poet and I wonder much at those young men and sometimes those old men who boldly declare their poeticality. If you ask them what they are, they say: Poet.' But yet, I continue to turn out verses ... I look forward to hearing more of you on your channel and I'll get you that coffee sometime! All good wishes from Old London Town, Mick Maphari (Which is an invented name by the way haha!)

Such a good rendition. Read much in the way I read it to myself aloud... (though mine lacks the sweet sounds of the Portuguese names, spoken as they should be) I'm calming myself with my own voice and yours, albeit disquietly.

Jove and Juno--just like an old married mortal couple: one a philanderer, the other a vindictive nag. Humorous!

It's impossible to stop watching pieces like this one, once started. Perfect dreamlike imagery, perfect music background, exquisite voice for another haunting piece. I just bought Sylvia Plath's novel "The Bell Jar" because of your readings.

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Just as an aside, I used the Lumiere Brothers' footage of the The Amazing Kremos Family Acrobats... I am almost certain this was the troupe Rilke saw that haunted his imagination all those years before he wrote this fifth elegy www.circopedia.org/Kremo_Family

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Required HS reading

Lori, I wanted to express just how gorgeous these recordings are, and especially how marvelous they are with Glass's Metamorphoses behind some of them!!! It is one of my favorite works of modern classical music, and fits perfectly with Pessoa's beautiful fractured identities. (I'm also pretty sure this is Branka Parlic's version of the Metamorphoses? It is my fave of them all!) It is also mixed very well, without overpowering the prose. It's a great example of just how unique and rare your readings are, giving voice to so many outstanding writers whose works have been conspicuously, and strangely, ignored by other great youtubers. Your work is one of a kind, Ms. Lori 😀. Thank you!

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Very deep.

Lori why are you so amazing? I keep coming to this couple of times a day. It gives me so much hope!

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Fate must have led me to this story some 50 years ago, as I searched for short story writers in a public library. An educated librarian guided me to a shelf, pulled a book from it 8:38 and insisted I check it out and read "The Aleph And Other Stories." Of course, I did. I came upon this story, read, and put down the book utterly devastated, just like the Dreamer when he realized the Truth. 50 years later this story still takes me to that empty, intangible, blissful place. Thanks to the lovely reader, whom Borges surely would have regarded as a goddess.

If I ever heard a reader voice that could do justice to Immortal Borges, this is that voice.

What an amazing channel you have here. I’m so happy I stumbled across it! I’ll be a Subscriber from now on!

Absolutely dark and haunting. There is no stopping in the middle once starting to listen to this piece. I read the "About Sylvia" link you included above, and I must learn even more about her now.

If you want to skip passed my rambling preamble, you can start the video here and listen to chapter 1 ruclips.net/video/7Di4ht0ayu4/видео.htmlsi=H3tq0q6QWPcNO9Kp&t=393

Holy Mother of God! Who writes a poem like that?! (Reason goes right out the door. As a poem says, "To think that two and two are four and neither five nor three, the heart of man hath long been sore ... and long 'tis like to be.") Terrific reading!

Holy Toledo! How difficult it must be to translate a poem and rhyme it properly without making it sound awkward.

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I listened to the poem. Then I went online and read it almost thrice. Yet to be honest I couldn't make the head and tails of it. Looks like I will have to find an explaination somewhere 😆 Or read it over and over again for a few more times. Usually Plath's poems are based on her personal experience so ig I should read about her relationship with her Father first.

Exceptional reading, truly brought to life in your voice. Seems like you would be a highly-sought-after audiobook reader.

A splendid poem, and a beautiful recitation! Falling stars impose such an evanescent imagery, a phantasm really. Yet even with failing hopes and desires, human resilience persists it seems :)

Thank you!!

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