http://www.logophile.org/blog/2007/04/19/weekly-acquisitions-21/ blog of a logophile (not "logos", but "λόγος") Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:37:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.logophile.org/blog/2007/04/19/weekly-acquisitions-21/comment-page-1/#comment-5195 tikitu Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:57:35 +0000 http://www.logophile.org/blog/?p=265#comment-5195 <p>I know, shameful isn't it? I expect to take the <em>Three Men</em> on a long train journey sometime -- or perhaps if I ever get around to buying a boat...</p> I know, shameful isn’t it? I expect to take the Three Men on a long train journey sometime — or perhaps if I ever get around to buying a boat…

]]> http://www.logophile.org/blog/2007/04/19/weekly-acquisitions-21/comment-page-1/#comment-5194 Jim Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:28:20 +0000 http://www.logophile.org/blog/?p=265#comment-5194 <p>I'm surprised you haven't read To Kill a Mockingbird before. Shame on you. I still have the postscript file of Three Men in A Boat you gave me. Yep, so much for the occasional purges. Three Men on the Bummel isn't the classic that the original is, but it's still good.</p> I’m surprised you haven’t read To Kill a Mockingbird before. Shame on you. I still have the postscript file of Three Men in A Boat you gave me. Yep, so much for the occasional purges. Three Men on the Bummel isn’t the classic that the original is, but it’s still good.

]]> http://www.logophile.org/blog/2007/04/19/weekly-acquisitions-21/comment-page-1/#comment-5193 tikitu Sun, 22 Apr 2007 13:07:30 +0000 http://www.logophile.org/blog/?p=265#comment-5193 <p>I'm really intrigued to see how much of this I manage to pick up. Unfortunately I've only got time to <em>buy</em> books at the moment, not to <em>read</em> them... I should have got to it by next winter, at a conservative estimate :/</p> I’m really intrigued to see how much of this I manage to pick up. Unfortunately I’ve only got time to buy books at the moment, not to read them… I should have got to it by next winter, at a conservative estimate :/

]]> http://www.logophile.org/blog/2007/04/19/weekly-acquisitions-21/comment-page-1/#comment-5192 ither Sun, 22 Apr 2007 09:20:02 +0000 http://www.logophile.org/blog/?p=265#comment-5192 <p>Max Havelaar is a book which almost everyone here has been required to read and which they have not understood. The cultivation system for coffee in Java is the least of it. Multituli's Dickensian target is Droogstoppel and what he individually and sociologically represents. The overwhelming colonial interpretation after all is but of olden folk and things that pass.</p> Max Havelaar is a book which almost everyone here has been required to read and which they have not understood. The cultivation system for coffee in Java is the least of it. Multituli’s Dickensian target is Droogstoppel and what he individually and sociologically represents. The overwhelming colonial interpretation after all is but of olden folk and things that pass.

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