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tolkienfan2759 OP t1_ixzosto wrote

Reply to comment by techneqsincer8y in Marking Up Your Books by tolkienfan2759

gotta save the real stuff for friends, right?

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techneqsincer8y t1_ixzqde5 wrote

Yes! One time I lent one of my husband's work friends a scrawled-up copy of The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus and only realized afterwards that I had jotted some stuff that was way too intense. 😅 Luckily he didn't mention it.

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tolkienfan2759 OP t1_ixzqzj7 wrote

lol too funny... but heck, I'm going to have to read that one... I've begun to appreciate more and more the role of the absurd in our lives... did you enjoy The Nose, by Shostakovich? It's kind of like that, only different...

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techneqsincer8y t1_ixzrj40 wrote

I have not read it but if it's similar and especially with that title I will add it to my TBR.

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tolkienfan2759 OP t1_ixzrtwb wrote

oops sorry didn't mean to mislead you... it's an opera

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techneqsincer8y t1_ixzty8m wrote

Oh interesting! I think Samuel Beckett wrote an opera into one of his plays that I wanted to read. I read a little about the specific structure of an opera before when I heard this (Beckett's one of my favorite authors) and I found it interesting but I don't have that info at the forefront of my brain ATM.

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tolkienfan2759 OP t1_ixzx40t wrote

Really! I had no idea. I was going to say I love Beckett but you know, love really isn't the word... he's very strange, and i love that about him

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