Comments on: A Thousand Points of Light and One Dim Bulb http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/01/28/a-thousand-points-of-light-and-one-dim-bulb/ \"...a somewhat popular blogger\" Sat, 18 Feb 2012 02:17:02 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Batocchio http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/01/28/a-thousand-points-of-light-and-one-dim-bulb/#comment-26459 Batocchio Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:15:26 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/01/28/a-thousand-points-of-light-and-one-dim-bulb/#comment-26459 <p>I like Garnett’s work, but prefer the Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky translations of Dostoevsky that I’ve read. But Garnett’s very good.</p> I like Garnett’s work, but prefer the Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky translations of Dostoevsky that I’ve read. But Garnett’s very good.

]]> By: gryphon http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/01/28/a-thousand-points-of-light-and-one-dim-bulb/#comment-26394 gryphon Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:14:45 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/01/28/a-thousand-points-of-light-and-one-dim-bulb/#comment-26394 <p>I think you mean he’s no Tracey Hickman …</p> I think you mean he’s no Tracey Hickman …

]]> By: JDsg http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/01/28/a-thousand-points-of-light-and-one-dim-bulb/#comment-26360 JDsg Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:00:54 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/01/28/a-thousand-points-of-light-and-one-dim-bulb/#comment-26360 <p>Philistine, schmilistine. Reading through ”Tess” and ”The Mayor” was more than enough for me. <i>Ne’er again.</i></p> Philistine, schmilistine. Reading through ”Tess” and ”The Mayor” was more than enough for me. Ne’er again.

]]> By: sophronia http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/01/28/a-thousand-points-of-light-and-one-dim-bulb/#comment-26353 sophronia Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:10:15 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/01/28/a-thousand-points-of-light-and-one-dim-bulb/#comment-26353 <p>Damn, now he’s picking on dead people? Something has really gone wrong in V. B.’s life. There are a lot of wingnuts who have mastered premature curmudgeonism, but Ben approaches a level of bitterness that worries me.</p> <p>And you’re right, he’s never read Dostoevsky. Talk about repulsive characters …</p> Damn, now he’s picking on dead people? Something has really gone wrong in V. B.’s life. There are a lot of wingnuts who have mastered premature curmudgeonism, but Ben approaches a level of bitterness that worries me.

And you’re right, he’s never read Dostoevsky. Talk about repulsive characters …

]]> By: MrsTarquinBiscuitbarrel http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/01/28/a-thousand-points-of-light-and-one-dim-bulb/#comment-26338 MrsTarquinBiscuitbarrel Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:55:39 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/01/28/a-thousand-points-of-light-and-one-dim-bulb/#comment-26338 <p>For a Harvard Law grad to wash out of a big law firm and go directly into some form of self-named private practice is very, very, very bad news professionally. I have never seen anyone who’s done this to do a phoenix number and get back into the legal swing of things, and neither has the manly Mr. Biscuitbarrel, my own in-house counsel and source of legal gossip. However, I do thank you, JDM3, for handing me a heapin’ helpin’ of finger-lickin’ Schadenfreude before I go off, cackling to myself, to do the dishes and start dinner…</p> For a Harvard Law grad to wash out of a big law firm and go directly into some form of self-named private practice is very, very, very bad news professionally. I have never seen anyone who’s done this to do a phoenix number and get back into the legal swing of things, and neither has the manly Mr. Biscuitbarrel, my own in-house counsel and source of legal gossip. However, I do thank you, JDM3, for handing me a heapin’ helpin’ of finger-lickin’ Schadenfreude before I go off, cackling to myself, to do the dishes and start dinner…

]]> By: humboldtblue http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/01/28/a-thousand-points-of-light-and-one-dim-bulb/#comment-26331 humboldtblue Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:20:43 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/01/28/a-thousand-points-of-light-and-one-dim-bulb/#comment-26331 <p>Leon Uris? Really? He compares Mitla 18 to Updike and finds in favor of Uris?</p> <p>Jesus fucking Christ humping a two-dollar hooker on good Friday. What’s next, an exegesis on how Tom Clancy novels truly outshine Twain?</p> Leon Uris? Really? He compares Mitla 18 to Updike and finds in favor of Uris?

Jesus fucking Christ humping a two-dollar hooker on good Friday. What’s next, an exegesis on how Tom Clancy novels truly outshine Twain?

]]> By: HalloweenJack http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/01/28/a-thousand-points-of-light-and-one-dim-bulb/#comment-26328 HalloweenJack Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:13:21 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/01/28/a-thousand-points-of-light-and-one-dim-bulb/#comment-26328 <p>Also, as if it needs to be said: not that Updike couldn’t have done it.</p> Also, as if it needs to be said: not that Updike couldn’t have done it.

]]> By: HalloweenJack http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/01/28/a-thousand-points-of-light-and-one-dim-bulb/#comment-26327 HalloweenJack Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:12:10 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/01/28/a-thousand-points-of-light-and-one-dim-bulb/#comment-26327 <p>For that matter, why did he wait until Updike died to say that he didn’t like his stuff? Did he think that Updike would show up on his doorstep to kick his ass? V.B. is certainly egotistical enough to think that Updike would even notice his fitful fretting.</p> For that matter, why did he wait until Updike died to say that he didn’t like his stuff? Did he think that Updike would show up on his doorstep to kick his ass? V.B. is certainly egotistical enough to think that Updike would even notice his fitful fretting.

]]> By: Julia http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/01/28/a-thousand-points-of-light-and-one-dim-bulb/#comment-26323 Julia Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:36:54 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/01/28/a-thousand-points-of-light-and-one-dim-bulb/#comment-26323 <p>Maybe he just didn’t read that one. Endless minute descriptions of the horrifying consequences for women of not being a virgin when you get married probably just aren’t his thing.</p> Maybe he just didn’t read that one. Endless minute descriptions of the horrifying consequences for women of not being a virgin when you get married probably just aren’t his thing.

]]> By: JRLabrador http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/01/28/a-thousand-points-of-light-and-one-dim-bulb/#comment-26318 JRLabrador Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:24:52 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/01/28/a-thousand-points-of-light-and-one-dim-bulb/#comment-26318 <p>Like Ben has ever read any Hardy. And while I had problems with much of Updike’s work (The Rabbit books being the expection), one perfect Updike snetnece contains more wisdom and insight then poor Ben will ever attain in his smug, self-congratulatory lifetime.</p> Like Ben has ever read any Hardy. And while I had problems with much of Updike’s work (The Rabbit books being the expection), one perfect Updike snetnece contains more wisdom and insight then poor Ben will ever attain in his smug, self-congratulatory lifetime.

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