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tell me why i should be interested...

― gareth, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i thought you were all Sebald pimps?

― gareth, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Jeez, man, this is like the 3rd / 4th thread with this title!!

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't think that is really the Pinefox - I cannot imagine him saying Jeez.

― Pete, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

W.G. Sebald - C or D? http://www.ilxor.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=006Xhy

wg sebald dead http://www.ilxor.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=007OyE

W.G. Sebald R.I.P http://www.ilxor.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=007Pmu

Am I turning into N.? Also I cannot do the nice blue linky linky things.

― alext, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

But I don't think those threads are exhaustive. Surely someone can answer Gareth's thread directly--not me, though, I am busy trying to singlehandedly keep the Houellebecq thread alive.

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 16:53 (twenty-three years ago)

OK: he is grate, or at least GOOD, re memory, history, war, time, dreams, landscape, the rural, England, Germany, language, the real, the fictional, language ('style'). Plus he is occasionally a black comedian.

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 17:04 (twenty-three years ago)

i've read the emigrants. i think he relies too much upon external supports. the first three sections are good, the first best, but only accidentally, as though, a keen observer, he was able to communicate the essential mystery of a person or a situation--to preserve the mystery in the explication--but when it came to telling about himself, the story was too transparent. i thought the last section was truly dull, and even the photos got boring. there wasn't that haunted feeling that i got earlier, especially when reading the part about dr. selwyn. (the photo of him at the window!)

― youn, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 17:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought the emigrants was boring and I haven't read anything else. I don't know why I always let Susan Sontag lure me into reading boring authors.

― DeRayMi, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 18:01 (twenty-three years ago)

but i have her to thank for getting me into the old wives' tale by bennett.

― youn, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 18:33 (twenty-three years ago)

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