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I know, but if I don't feel like reading something, even a short story begins to feel like a thick tome. :-) Pay me no attention. It's one of my numerous weaknesses: I seem incapable of getting much out of literary fiction. I'm also largely poem deaf, though not invariably. And of course, don't...

Hmm, let me go fetch a dictionary to look up what exactly "snow" is... :D

I didn't know a thing about Kafka, so why not read a brief intro? The book contains a brief biography, plus summaries of his more important books. On the whole, it convinced me that it is very unlikely that I will enjoy his work at all, and thus, it spared me the bother of having to try to plow...

A good fifty years after first learning English, I still make them myself, all the time. English is a ridiculous language. :-)

Just finished reading this biography of Gerard Sekoto, a locally famous but internationally probably fairly obscure artist - except maybe in France, where he spent most of his life in exile. A rather sad tale - born in 1913, he lived the first part of his life under increasingly oppressive...

Well, enjoy gobbling the gobbler. :-)

Seeing as there isn't a "music and humor" thread, I'll put the musical humor in here...

Londoners baffled by bizarre Christmas mural https://www.enca.com/lifestyle/londoners-baffled-bizarre-christmas-mural LONDON - People in London were left baffled by what appeared to be a botched AI-generated Christmas mural showing a Santa-like figure with a half-orange beard and revellers...

I find DA to be useful simply as backup to store pictures - but the price one pays is to constantly be confused by precisely this sort of thing. Random, weird comments, scammers trying their luck, being awarded "badges" and stuff. I can't help you, but I commiserate. :)

Max Beckman - Sinking of the Titanic [1912-13]. Oil on canvas, 265 x 330 cm.

Bunch of mini-paintings: we're going to turn them into fridge magnets by sticking a magnet to the back, and then put them into homemade Christmas crackers. One should have some fun now and then! :-)

Not for nothing that Bach did all those transcriptions of Vivaldi concertos. :-)

One of those YouTube recommendations; something slightly different, by a local group...

And only 14 symphonies and some 30 operas. He's virtually a bum who just sits around staring into the middle distance all day long. :-) Now I know what Stravinsky would say: Glass hasn't written 14 symphonies, he's written the same one 14 times... :-)