tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post479195491251053023..comments2024-03-28T19:17:01.550+13:00Comments on The Imaginary Museum: Crazy Like a FoxDr Jack Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01805945600952222957noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-66368367916724132192010-07-09T09:33:11.654+12:002010-07-09T09:33:11.654+12:00"Now", as of 9th July, 2010, that is ......"Now", as of 9th July, 2010, that is ...Dr Jack Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01805945600952222957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-79267199722024218872010-07-09T09:32:25.305+12:002010-07-09T09:32:25.305+12:00I'm pleased (or terrified) to report that my b...I'm pleased (or terrified) to report that my bibliography blog is now (more or less) complete - or as complete as I can make it at present.<br /><br />And the grand total is:<br />15,399 books, recorded on 2328 pages of text, in over 600,000 words of text. Makes you think, doesn't it?Dr Jack Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01805945600952222957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-10409786930510966922010-02-14T23:15:22.698+13:002010-02-14T23:15:22.698+13:00Perhaps all the books are conspiring about you! Oo...Perhaps all the books are conspiring about you! Oops the C word!<br /><br />BTW - in his interview Richard von Sturmer gives the idea of all the books in a library somehow communicating with each other!! <br /><br />(And this creating a dialogue that is a 'complex' of the various dialogues....lol...and so on and so on... (to use a device of Vonnegut...Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10272507198753290435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-27488462490641458372010-02-01T09:47:52.889+13:002010-02-01T09:47:52.889+13:00Or it could just be that my interest in cookbooks ...Or it could just be that my interest in cookbooks as a potential consumer inspired me to celebrate them in the only way I knew how ...?<br /><br />I just throw that out there as a complement to Richard's more comprehensive (and baroque) diagnosis ...Dr Jack Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01805945600952222957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-31952099558390974102010-01-31T14:09:25.995+13:002010-01-31T14:09:25.995+13:00Jack will eventually catalogue everything. Bronwyn...Jack will eventually catalogue everything. Bronwyn, you should have consulted me. Now I would have told you about Jack and his strange ways. I mean a man who writes a dissertation on Masefield is indeed certifiable.<br /><br />As to recipes; ...hmm.... is this a case of cooking the books? Or cooking the cook books?<br /><br />As long as Jack doesn't resort to eating the books...there is some philosophical reason here...what is the terminology? It is like those worms Gabriel talks about who gain memory of the other or what they eat or devour...Jack, deep down, wants to, and indeed eventually will, "consume" all his books. [Hannibal Lector = Cannibal Reader? (But not a hypocrite perhaps...)] Eating-reading will become literal...the endlessly chasing nearer to the goal signifiers and the signifieds may scream or squeal in pathetic protest as long and as loud as they can, but they will be part of the wonderful, new, and total transformative and transforming reading experience. The words shall have died not in vain - they will have worked (and nor will age weary them); in their constitution they will be reified. Reified. Good word that. He will "eat [his] way through" and BECOME his books...<br /><br />A living book, as in 'Fahrenheit 451' by Bradbury. All the living talking books.<br /><br />"The Battle of the Books" ... ah Swift, where art thou? Jack has need of you...or Bronwyn does. <br /><br />Of course Jack was /is a member of "Slightly Foxed" hence perhaps the title here.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10272507198753290435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-27352818180863398832010-01-30T15:31:43.221+13:002010-01-30T15:31:43.221+13:00Or when your wife comes home to discover that you&...Or when your wife comes home to discover that you've alphabetised and catalogued her cupboard of recipe books in the kitchen - what name do we give that kind of biblio-madness?<br />xxbBronwyn Lloydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06164379991299733050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-43715253777133449612009-12-20T08:04:52.956+13:002009-12-20T08:04:52.956+13:00Thanks Giovanni. No, I didn't know about eithe...Thanks Giovanni. No, I didn't know about either of those, though someone did tell me there was a site (mybooks.zone? something like that) where you could list your books in the hopes of finding others with the same interests. When I heard that you had to pay for the privilege, though, I kind of lost interest. I'll certainly check out the two you mention.<br /><br />& Richard, no, I haven't read that particular one, but I am a big fan of Manguel's <em>Dictionary of Imaginary Places</em>. I'll certainly put <em>The Library at Night</em> on my to-be-read-asap list ...Dr Jack Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01805945600952222957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-7227208957460634812009-12-19T21:33:02.001+13:002009-12-19T21:33:02.001+13:00Jack - have you read The Library at Night by Alber...Jack - have you read The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel? I read it twice - the part especially about Aby Warburg fascinated me and his strange but interesting way of organising libraries. Manguel is writer himself and has his own library and also as you may know knew Borges. (I don't own a copy I get it from the library from time to time...) Regards, Richard.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10272507198753290435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-37079183268619796212009-12-19T14:05:24.057+13:002009-12-19T14:05:24.057+13:00The blog has no fewer than five followers already,...<i>The blog has no fewer than five followers already, though I can't think what satisfaction they obtain from watching it slowly grow.</i><br /><br />Man, have you been paying attention to the Internet at all? Of course we're interested. Avidly so.<br /><br />Speaking of, it doesn't seem possible that you don't know Bibliodyssey, but it's not in your blogroll so I'll mention it in passing. <a href="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2009/04/world-digital-library.html" rel="nofollow">This post of theirs</a> on the World Digital Library is as good an intro as any. But I was even more impressed by John Ptak's <a href="http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/" rel="nofollow">Science Books</a> blog, which was recommended to me yesterday by the formidable Stephen Judd. I think you'll find it very much to your liking.Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.com