Comments on: Time and travels http://www.elifbatuman.net/2008/11/21/time-and-travels/ "Many people ask why a writer commits suicide. But I think that people who ask don’t know the vanity and the nothingness of writing." Kobo Abe Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:22:40 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: BenjaminL http://www.elifbatuman.net/2008/11/21/time-and-travels/comment-page-1/#comment-774 BenjaminL Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:02:37 +0000 http://www.elifbatuman.net/2008/11/21/time-and-travels/#comment-774 Compliments on an excellent blog. About walking in L.A., that is quite true although as you must know not a novel thing to say. But in spite of the general truth of the statement, there are a good number of locations that do allow for pleasant walking amongst others who are also doing so -- even if these areas are confined to a few blocks at most. Examples include: 1) Vermont Ave. around Hollywood Blvd and Franklin Ave. 2) Sunset Blvd. around Silver Lake Blvd. 3) Melrose Ave. shopping 4) Hollywood Blvd walk of fame 5) Third St Promenade, Santa Monica 6) downtown Beverly Hills 7) Westwood around UCLA Worth a look, or rather, walk! Compliments on an excellent blog. About walking in L.A., that is quite true although as you must know not a novel thing to say. But in spite of the general truth of the statement, there are a good number of locations that do allow for pleasant walking amongst others who are also doing so — even if these areas are confined to a few blocks at most. Examples include:

1) Vermont Ave. around Hollywood Blvd and Franklin Ave.
2) Sunset Blvd. around Silver Lake Blvd.
3) Melrose Ave. shopping
4) Hollywood Blvd walk of fame
5) Third St Promenade, Santa Monica
6) downtown Beverly Hills
7) Westwood around UCLA

Worth a look, or rather, walk!

]]> By: SW Foska http://www.elifbatuman.net/2008/11/21/time-and-travels/comment-page-1/#comment-765 SW Foska Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:22:22 +0000 http://www.elifbatuman.net/2008/11/21/time-and-travels/#comment-765 Dear Dr. Batuman, My personal bells (one at the door, one on the bicycle) neither weigh nor measure much. But since you yourself had adduced weight as the dominant criterion in campanarian literature, your inference that the New Yorkers had spurned your oeuvre on grounds of size rather than mass confused me. Dear Dr. Batuman, My personal bells (one at the door, one on the bicycle) neither weigh nor measure much. But since you yourself had adduced weight as the dominant criterion in campanarian literature, your inference that the New Yorkers had spurned your oeuvre on grounds of size rather than mass confused me.

]]> By: Tara http://www.elifbatuman.net/2008/11/21/time-and-travels/comment-page-1/#comment-764 Tara Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:50:44 +0000 http://www.elifbatuman.net/2008/11/21/time-and-travels/#comment-764 I rarely lol (literally), but this was too funny: "and not, as I initially surmised, a diabolical battery that runs Matrix-style on the decomposing body and immortal soul of the great premodern Chinese poet, Li Po." Classic. The LRB never charged me for the article, hooray. I enjoyed the anecdotes about Sartre and Althusser, plus your imagining Roudinesco "as some hard-drinking cowboy who takes no stock in doctors or government because the county sheriff just wants him behind bars, who stands by his friends but knows all along that the days of real cowboys are over." :) I'm totally behind on reading, but onward to your n+1 piece. I attended their party in Brooklyn last Friday and predictably, no one danced and no one was drunk. I rarely lol (literally), but this was too funny: “and not, as I initially surmised, a diabolical battery that runs Matrix-style on the decomposing body and immortal soul of the great premodern Chinese poet, Li Po.”

Classic.

The LRB never charged me for the article, hooray. I enjoyed the anecdotes about Sartre and Althusser, plus your imagining Roudinesco “as some hard-drinking cowboy who takes no stock in doctors or government because the county sheriff just wants him behind bars, who stands by his friends but knows all along that the days of real cowboys are over.” :)

I’m totally behind on reading, but onward to your n+1 piece. I attended their party in Brooklyn last Friday and predictably, no one danced and no one was drunk.

]]> By: Elif http://www.elifbatuman.net/2008/11/21/time-and-travels/comment-page-1/#comment-763 Elif Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:17:15 +0000 http://www.elifbatuman.net/2008/11/21/time-and-travels/#comment-763 Well, tell me what kind you've got, and we'll see if we can work something out. <center><img src="http://www.elifbatuman.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/mingunbell-lg-1.jpg" alt="" title="Mingun Bell" width="200" height="264" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-329" /></center> Well, tell me what kind you’ve got, and we’ll see if we can work something out.

]]> By: SW Foska http://www.elifbatuman.net/2008/11/21/time-and-travels/comment-page-1/#comment-762 SW Foska Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:53:53 +0000 http://www.elifbatuman.net/2008/11/21/time-and-travels/#comment-762 Do you mean bigger bells, or heavier ones? Do you mean bigger bells, or heavier ones?

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