Weird fact: how my books are priced rarely seems to effect their sales. Several of the poor sellers I tried to lower the price on, and it didn't seem to improve that at all.
Perhaps that means I should just charge $40 for that Marriage la Mode by John Dryden. Then I only need to sell 2 copies to make back my money!...
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Perhaps that means I should just charge $40 for that Marriage la Mode by John Dryden. Then I only need to sell 2 copies to make back my money!...
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wtk10025:
Actually, given the claim to uniqueness in the publication of the songs, I would say you might just be successful at the higher price. A quirk of psychology. What can the experiment hurt?
The Gay Purr-ee/Cat Pure Party went well. It was about $35 total for all the food, which consisted of champagne, brie, camembert, french bread, fake foie gras (foie de canard with pork, which was all I could find -- I think the animal rights folks may have some sway around here), truffle pte, and homemade crpes with fruit and powdered sugar. My sister dressed up...
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wtk10025:
Poor Francis Scott Key was not much of a poet. One hopes he was a better lawyer. In his defense one can note that he wasn't imagining that he was penning the National Anthem. He just thought it was another disgorgement of his usual schlock. The less than melodious and syntactically challenged language wasn't even contemporary in his own day. How it became the National Anthem involves dubiously illustrious names such as Woodrow Wilson and Herbert Hoover. At least Truman could play an instrument. So it goes.
Sorry you had to make do with faux foie gras. Glad the party went well.
Sorry you had to make do with faux foie gras. Glad the party went well.
I'm not sure if I posted here the details of the journey to California over Thanksgiving -- basically the family decided we should go out and see grandma since she's 93 and not getting any more healthy. She's getting a little batty, especially in the afternoons it seems -- like twice she forgot I had been staying there for days and was pleasantly surprised that...
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wtk10025:
Don't know if you can get it in time, but Amazon has some reasonably priced foie gras--and some very unreasonably priced as well.
I recognize that cold. I have it as does one of the people who works for me. I have avoided the laryngitis thus far, but my voice is operating at a low enough frequency to be mistaken for seismic activity. So it goes.
I recognize that cold. I have it as does one of the people who works for me. I have avoided the laryngitis thus far, but my voice is operating at a low enough frequency to be mistaken for seismic activity. So it goes.
December 3rd and I have only one Christmas gift left to buy before I am done with all necessary shopping. The last person I need to find something for is my grandpa. All he likes are guns and cigars. Perhaps I can find some novel method of combining the two into a cigar shaped like a gun, or something.
Dealing still with the Eugenie translation. I technically have finished it, in that the 'primary' translation is done -- it's all polishing from here. Unfortunately, I can see why this play didn't have the staying power of Figaro -- the ending is kind of dated.
The story of Eugenie, first performed in 1767, concerns a girl of noble birth (Eugenie) who has secretly married an...
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The story of Eugenie, first performed in 1767, concerns a girl of noble birth (Eugenie) who has secretly married an...
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bellyjack:
An idea ... present both an unaltered translation, and one adapted to modern eyes.
I'm intrigued by the way people thought in past ages, and how they compare to present day sensibilities.
I'm intrigued by the way people thought in past ages, and how they compare to present day sensibilities.
Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.
Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt. Tag other book nerds. Tag me as well so I can see your responses!...
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wtk10025:
OK, 33. But I deeply regret reading the Dan Browm and the Exupery. The rest I can't say I regret, but they certainly weren't all equally worthy. Started Ulysses perhaps 4 times. Once met an ivy league English professor who confessed, after several drinks, he'd only ever made it all the way through the Cliff's Notes despite the fact he taught the book. So it goes.
Which reminds me wonder--why no Kurt Vonnegut on this list?
Which reminds me wonder--why no Kurt Vonnegut on this list?
knavish:
22. But I read The Count of Monte Cristo five times so do I get extra points for that?
My completely bizarre DVD collection:
Moral Orel disc 1
Disney's Cinderella
Muqaddar ka Sikandar
Hum
Hera Pheri
Shikaar
Rammstein - Lichtspielhaus
Prancer
Cowboy Bebop disc 1
Art of Buster Keaton set
Blackadder set
Like Water for Chocolate
Gay Purr-ee
Mostly animation and foreign movies it seems.
Moral Orel disc 1
Disney's Cinderella
Muqaddar ka Sikandar
Hum
Hera Pheri
Shikaar
Rammstein - Lichtspielhaus
Prancer
Cowboy Bebop disc 1
Art of Buster Keaton set
Blackadder set
Like Water for Chocolate
Gay Purr-ee
Mostly animation and foreign movies it seems.
http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2010/11/john-cusack-as-edgar-allen-poe
Ugh, they are only about a half step away from actually coming up with that Benjamin Franklin movie I devised so as to make the most historically inaccurate movie ever. (It was about Benjamin Franklin being a shamed cop who winds up having to team up with Marie Antoinette to rescue her father King Arthur after he gets kidnapped by vampires.)
Ugh, they are only about a half step away from actually coming up with that Benjamin Franklin movie I devised so as to make the most historically inaccurate movie ever. (It was about Benjamin Franklin being a shamed cop who winds up having to team up with Marie Antoinette to rescue her father King Arthur after he gets kidnapped by vampires.)
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grayness:
Wait... substitute Shining Path guerrillas for vampires, and Warren Harding for King Arthur! 
tohidemyhurt:
sounds like it would fit nicely into the line up of the wb! 
but seriously, yours is a vehicle that would have room not only for the older 3 Kardashian sisters but Bruce Jenner and the mom as well.
but seriously, yours is a vehicle that would have room not only for the older 3 Kardashian sisters but Bruce Jenner and the mom as well.
Contemplating the movie The Nightmare Before Christmas:
Within the film, everyone, including Jack Skellington, appeared to believe prior to seeing him that Santa Claus ("Sandy Claws") was to be some kind of horrific Lovecraftian creature. This is probably why Jack believed it would be acceptable to send Lock, Shock and Barrel out to subdue him and bring him back. But, given this, why did Lock...
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Within the film, everyone, including Jack Skellington, appeared to believe prior to seeing him that Santa Claus ("Sandy Claws") was to be some kind of horrific Lovecraftian creature. This is probably why Jack believed it would be acceptable to send Lock, Shock and Barrel out to subdue him and bring him back. But, given this, why did Lock...
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My Theater Books, as follows:
La Commedia Inglese: English Plays of the Commedia dell'Arte
The only one in which I've personally written any of the plays, this book has 4 plays from 4 centuries of English commedia dell'arte.
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Illustrated by me -- my personal favorite picture being the death of Bergetto. The 'whore' of the title is actually a...
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La Commedia Inglese: English Plays of the Commedia dell'Arte
The only one in which I've personally written any of the plays, this book has 4 plays from 4 centuries of English commedia dell'arte.
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Illustrated by me -- my personal favorite picture being the death of Bergetto. The 'whore' of the title is actually a...
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