Paris Salon Weekend March 31st

 

Just coming down from the amazing energy and insights shared in the past weekend Paris studies. I wish I could capture that energy in a balloon: I could get myself to a Caribbean Island where I could read and swim for days with the glow of the words we read and shared. But back in this life, planning is required. So what next? If you participate in the Paris studies (or if you would like to, if so please contact me ), please vote for the next set.
And in a fit of planning, I think I can even offer the NEXT weekend possibility: weekend of May 12-13th, choices to include at least Virgil’s Aeniad, possibly also Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist, Updike’s “A & P” and…

Feedback from the Iliad study:
“This is just to say thank you for that wonderful discussion around our reading of the Iliad – and again for sending those v. very useful background docs…

You managed to steer the discussion in such away that in spite of the 600 pages (breadth) and the highly complex content (depth) that we seemed to cover the most important aspects of this totally outstanding work. Do you know, even if I LIKE the Odyssey better, I think the Iliad is the greater work. Maybe because it is a sustained narrative as you said, and less of a patch-work than the Odyssey. So one feels one’s on a wave, ON A ROLL, from the beginning to end.

WHAT a read…!” (Paris participant, Iliad 02.12)

I am counting my blessings: such rich books, such wonderful minds: thank you Salonistas.

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