Found no threads, shockingly...
I'm halfway through the second volume in A Dance to the Music of Time. I've found no intelligent recent essays other than one penned by Hitchens about eight years ago.
Anybody here read the whole (12 volumes!) thing?
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)
Yes. It's absolutely wonderful, so funny and so interwoven.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)
About ten years ago. I couldn't put it down.
― Michael White, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 17:39 (eighteen years ago)
Should I bother with the rest of 'A Dance to the Music of Time'?
― Michael White, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 17:42 (eighteen years ago)
I found out about it from some Anthony Burgess book where he talks about his personal selection of Great Novels.
Have had 1st volume for awhile, have not begun it but expect to dig it.
― Jon Lewis, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 18:27 (eighteen years ago)
jaq otm. the cumulative richness is breathtaking.
― lauren, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 19:06 (eighteen years ago)
I used to have a goal of reading all the books listed in Burgess' 99 Novels. Then I stopped reading books. :-(((
― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)
Currently reading Hilary Spurling's biography of A.P. I was aware that Powell knew M R James at Eton (not mentioned by Spurling here), and had some kind of connection to Aleister Crowley (apparently they had lunch together when Powell worked in publishing and Crowley was hoping to find a buyer for his autobiography - Henry Green's brother Gerald was also one of Crowley's major sponsors/disciples), but I didn't know until now that Powell also had Arthur Machen for a next door neighbour in the 1920s! ("the occasional sweep of an Inverness cape, surmounted by a broad black-brimmed hat, with the sound of a throaty cough, made him seem all a bohemian author should be".) One of the things I like best about Dance is its attentiveness to the occult and ghostly alongside 'the acceptance world', so these kinds of connections are pretty pleasing.
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 19 February 2018 09:33 (eight years ago)
Perry Anderson on Powell and Proust, typically masterful, and Powell wins on pointshttps://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n14/perry-anderson/different-speeds-same-furies
― Neil S, Thursday, 12 July 2018 17:34 (seven years ago)