bridge-tarp...: Gudrun Landgrebe

About

Distinctively & as immemorially concocted in the Anti-Shandean pasquils of the likes of G. Richter & F. Wedmore (against which they till nowadays survive), the posts here assembled have a merit of their own many do not wish to understand (and have little to recommend save the eccentricity of their titles). They do not feel much, though a few find genious in insanity and amateur prodigy (popularity is the only insult that has not yet been offered me, since years ago I became a person of high promise; scandal—oh mystère effroyable, paradoxe, aporie: trop d'exemples, un à chaque pas, aaaaai, larvale simulacrum, tô com fome! however, is an insidious form of fame). Quis ille? Paucis accipe: of a breed holding by ancient roots to the heights of Rotzo (& later marooned in the bogs of the land of the Southern lapwing), Alessandro Zir is PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies by Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada), where Ian Hacking was the external (& eternal) examiner of his thesis. He (the poor Wight of a Dedicator, homem sem profissão, sob as ordens de mamãe) has publications in Brazil, Canada, Chile, England, Germany, Poland, Portugal and USA, including a book (Luso-Brazilian Encounters of the Sixteenth Century, Lanham), and otherwise just "small" works such as chapters of books, literary and movie "criticism", papers, translations, and fragmentary fictional texts. As any good old & new kerosineshchik, he also plays the piano and has experimented with video and other arts. Among his translations (not even mentioned for the Jabuti you never heard about) are books from Agatha Christie, Conan Doyle, Georges Simenon, Charles Baudelaire and Petronius (CV in English and Portuguese). Living in a bye corner of the kingdom.

Clarification

About the many quotations you find in these posts: they appear within quotation marks and an author is always identified. In the case of fiction, I might occasionally attribute them directly to the characters. More rarely, I may even use a nickname for the author. In any case I don't bother to give full details for most quotations (page, year, publishing house, even title!), because the purpose of this site is to stimulate people to think, and do their own research. Almost all of the content of these quotations were transcribed by hand from printed books while I was reading them, with the exception of quotes from news articles in my clippings. Everything is curated through my careful reading, selection and editing. On the one hand, I work here like an "arranger," in the same way James Joyce's narrator was characterized by people like David Hayman. On the other hand, I leave traces for future developments, for my own work and the work of others.

Financial Support

Since 2018 I stopped being dependent on universities, whose system (with its royalties and signories, rights and jurisdictions, privileges & hereditaments) I believe is in degeneracy and utterly corrupt. In the twilight of so-called "liberal" societies, both private corporations and public bureaucracies fight among themselves for the trophies of the final consummation of human stupidity and evil. They are allies. Actually, for cultivated and creative individuals, everywhere became like the Neue Musik cubbbyhole: "Man muß schon taubstumme Eltern haben oder mit einer namhaften feministischen Schriftstellerin zusammen arbeiten, um als Komponist die Aufmerksamkeit der Öffentlichkeit auf sich zu ziehen... comissioni, borse di studio, forme di sostegno e promozione vengono quasi interamente erogate per ricompensare il carrierismo, l'opportunismo e ogni mancanza di vigore" (Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf). To support my intellectual independence, you can buy my art works at Fine Art America, and Urban Arts, or my books at Amazon. Besides, you can also donate: PIX 88182207053, Banco do Brasil (Agência 2817-7, Conta Corrente 7245-1). Any value (of good and lawful money) is helpful.

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Wednesday, November 09, 2016

Colonel Redl (Stvan Szabo, 1985)