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What Are We Reading? 8 March 2021
Georg wrote: "AB76 wrote: "I am confused with the Imperial German census for Schleswig(previously the Danish Duchy of Schleswig, the southern area was part of Germany from 1860s), in that it has three Protestant..."thanks georg...very helpful.
i didnt think the Zwingli/Calvin reformed faith was that big in Imperial Germany(though according to the Schleswig returns it was significant in that region) i guess the Old Lutherans are in there too and the Pietists on either side, so maybe increasing the Evangelical numbers on one side, the Luther numbers on other side)
I know Webers mother was a Calvinist but then she was Hugenot descent, like my paternal ancestors in the 1720s, Calvinists
Lippe is supposed to be Calvinist area, so maybe i need to study the 1885 census return for that area
Anastasia wrote: "Lljones wrote: "More on that later, but I do have a question ..."Looking forward to an update on that database :) I've been away all day and now it seems that the question has been answered, so ju..."
hmmm, i have been intrigued by the Russian-Ukrainian situation with language and have read a lot of Bulgakov. He never seems very pro-ukraine i agree
The census apparently records the mother tongue only, so maybe the bi-lingualism of the population in large mixed cities like Kiev is badly represented by the data. I recorded 22% of Kiev city were listed as Ukranian speakers but if they also spoke Russian and you add them to russian speakers, thats just over 75% of the city speaking Russian. Again it works the other way and it could be 75% able to converse in Ukrainian.
Ok, here is my Ukraine overview for 1897 (minus the western regions that in 1897 were in Austro-Hungary):
Ukranian speakers were 69% of the old Tsarist Ukraine, Russians were 10%.
Russians exceeded that % in Taurida, Kharkov and Kherson governates. (28% of the people in Taurida were Russian speakers, 42% were Ukraniain speakers).
In Podolia only 3% were Russian speakers.
Bessarabia aka bits of Moldova is included in my stats and in that governate, Ukraniains were least represented, only 20% were Ukranian
Lastly,. urban Ukraine does seem to have more Russian speakers in 1897, if you take Odessa, Kiev, Chisinau,Kharkov and Dnipr , 50% of these cities speaks Russian,15% Ukranian.
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Looking forward to an update on that database :) ..."
😉I haven't had an excuse to fire up Access since the last NotTheBooker.
I'm about halfway there...was making good progress until that damn mb threw out a cryptic crossword!
Should by now have finished Botchan, but it's going slow, don't like too much self-righteous characters. Boy is this boy a hypocrite!
@AB76 I doubt that the people (particularly population) who didn't speak the language daily would include it as their mother tongue. There's simply no sense in advising the Tsarist authorities your native language is Ukrainian if you're not trying to make a point. You're unlikely to be adding them to Russian speakers as, again, these are mother tongue stats. The figures for Kiev governorate (urban) are 152k Russian population vs 129k of the Ukrainian population, so that's hardly 50% vs 15%.
If you view the language composition of Ukraine in its modern borders (excluding the western parts), Chisinau would be excluded being part of Moldova.
Tam wrote #142:
"I have received an enormous book as a birthday present (tomorrow 11th, which I'm glad to see that I share with Douglas Adams) from my son in Spain, who signs himself 'your Iberian beast' of 'The Grand Medieval Bestiary' "Just popping in this morning, briefly, to wish you a very happy birthday!
Douglas Adams is a great birthday pairing. You also share this day with Janosch, "one of the best-known German-language children's book authors and illustrators", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janosch, one of whose best-known creations is the so-called tiger duck: https://my-little-luxury.de/wp-conten...
Something to add to the Beastiary?
Your son sounds great. Obviously brought up with good taste! The book looks wonderful, too. What a thoughtful choice. (As an incorrigible - hi Sydney) - I am very tempted to suggest to Mr B we might "need" it...)
Enjoy your day, and your 'new year'!
Anastasia wrote: "@AB76 I doubt that the people (particularly population) who didn't speak the language daily would include it as their mother tongue. There's simply no sense in advising the Tsarist authorities your..."Good point Anastasia on the mother tongue issue, bi-lingualism can be a tricky thing to measure if its not studied at the time
i agree that Kiev governate(urban) is more balanced, the 50 vs 15% was for the largest cities in the Ukraine but if i remove Chisniau(Moldova) its 52/48 in favour of Russian which is more realistic i think
Galicia was the region that contained most of West Ukraine(lvov area) and in 1910 it was 45% Polish and 43% Ruthenian(Ukrainian). 40% of the population spoke Ukrainian, which was concentrated on the far east of Galicia. However after WW2 the population exchanges meant that the Poles were almost all removed. Galicia was a lot less Jewish in 1910 (10%) than the 1897 Ukraine
i hope this has all been helpful!
Good news on a showery, windy morning is its all good books to read : Bedford, Storm,Pla and NyongI read Denis Jacksons afterword to the Storm short story collection and it was a wonderful homage to the great author, . Telling ghost stories round the fire to gathered fellow authors like Theodor Fontane, his drunken eldest son who lived a reckless life and died young, Storms grief at losing his first wife and the interesting world he inhabited of German-Danish borderlands in Husum, Schlewswig (update: Jackson sadly died in 2020, his translation work was a late life affair)
The bad news is all my bills are going up, when the standard of living is going down. i blame a political class in thrall to privatised companies.....
Yesterday I managed to get myself in a proper tizzy trying to update my security for mobile banking, getting in such a muddle that the bank eventually locked me out of my account.It all started because I couldn’t see the numbers on that small device that generates a code any more and had to request a larger model. There’s an activating code to start it but I could I find where to enter it? Of course not. Enter your password. Which password? Do they mean another code?.
I’ll ring. Have you tried ringing your bank recently? Another lot of questions for security. Finally ‘ We are experiencing a large number......’ it rang and rang. I gave up. Tried logging on again, this time certainly putting in the incorrect information again and again. In despair at now being blocked MrC said he would drive me to the bank today and let them sort it out.
Now this morning, calmer, I managed to set it all up fairly easily, feeling most foolish about the mess of it that I made yesterday. Am I alone in this? Does anyone else get in a muddle with security systems and feel positively guilty? I am so relieved today. Now I realise that the muddle all came about because I had forgotten that I had a password for it has never been used for everyday banking.
Generally I am pretty good with codes and puzzles, get quite hooked on them, don’t like to be beaten.( I remember writing secret messages with lemon juice as a child).
I have been doing some light reading, well, back to scandi crime, Anne Holt’s first two books, Blind Goddess and Blessed are those who Thirst , big print size, rather gory. Codes come into both books. The first is that familiar one based on a book, with page,line, letter generating the word. Difficult to crack unless you know the book. Haven’t worked out the second yet. In between back I go to Tales from Ovid Ted Hughes which somehow I am finding a little disappointing or Walter de la Mare’s The Return which is really quite scary where a man falls asleep in a churchyard and wakes with the face of the interred person.
Increasingly our technological culture demands our expertise with codes, passwords and security. Students often find timetables, grids, tables and the like difficult in maths and I guess many adults do too. I certainly only did yesterday.
Machenbach wrote: "The crossword lovers here might be interested in this Oulipian tribute to Georges Perec (who was himself a crossword setter), in which none of the clues or answers employ the letter 'e':http://cro..."
Very clever!
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Poor you. Glad it's sorted.
Here's my version of this story: Last summer, early days in Covid, I was still in Portland. I spotted a charge on my bank transactions I didn't recognize. Called in to report it, bank agent said "we'll investigate", end of call. The next day I walked to the grocery store, stood in line for an hour because the store was limiting occupancy, did my shopping, swiped my card to pay, and...DENIED. What?
Headed down the street to the bank, closed to customers, and stood at the drive-through window for THREE HOURS, trying to sort it out. I was connected to the security department, who asked endless security questions, all answered easily enough until they asked "Where did you open the account?" Well, that was over 30 years ago, I was living in Seattle at the time, I lived in Briar, was it Briar? No. I worked in Bothell, was it Bothell? No. Lynwood? No. Kenmore? No. (Seattle folks will no doubt recognize the problem...all these incorporated town names were within a 5 mile radius). Hell, I don't know (turns out it was Mountlake Terrace). We moved on to other security questions until they finally decided I was legit, then explained that because I'd reported the questionable charge the day before, they'd cancelled my card "...for your own security. Oops, we probably should have told you we were going to do that."
Eventually got it straightened out, a new card was issued, and then I spent several days updating all the automatic payments set up on the old card, struggled to remember a million passwords and security questions, blah blah blah.
Here's the best part of the story: the $30 charge I had challenged turned out to be legit!
Lljones wrote: "CCCubbon wrote: "Does anyone else get in a muddle with security systems and feel positively guilty?..."Poor you. Glad it's sorted.
Here's my version of this story: Last summer, early days in Co..."
any struggles with modern banking have my deepest sympathy, its a struggle to get any human contact or quick assistance and has been for over a decade
Shelflife_wasBooklooker wrote: "Tam wrote #142:
"I have received an enormous book as a birthday present (tomorrow 11th, which I'm glad to see that I share with Douglas Adams) from my son in Spain, who signs himself 'your Iber..."
Thankyou Shelflife, and Mach, for the good wishes. It seems that me, Douglas and Janosch all share the quest for 'the meaning of life' between us. Must be something about the 11th March... Though I think it is certainly very good at hiding itself...
TamHappy Birthday and many more of them.
AB76 wrote: "Just watched a superb BBC documentary on John DeLorean, he of the DeLorean car and the Belfast factoryGlenn Patterson's novel Gull (2016) is about the DeLorean debacle. GP's a witty bloke and a suitable author to write about the larger-than-life JDL. He starts Gull with a note: 'I made this all up, apart from the bits you just couldn't.' Another good example of his wit is the title of the novel. He's written several novels about N. Ireland.Gull
Alan wrote: "AB76 wrote: "Just watched a superb BBC documentary on John DeLorean, he of the DeLorean car and the Belfast factoryGlenn Patterson's novel Gull (2016) is about the DeLorean debacle. GP's a witty ..."
thanks mate, i have read some Patterson and will look this up now!
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Agree, Gull is a fine book.
Very interesting LRB article on the German anthropologist Franz Boaz and his approach to race theory, in that, quite sensibly, he believed it was all bunkum, there was no hierarchy of race. Back in the pre ww2 world, this was controversial but seems very perceptive nowMy interest in Inuit-Eskimo culture has been piqued by the fact Boas lived and studied in the Canadian Pacific for a while and the Pacific NW. He also taught Zora Neale Hurston, Margaret Mead and Ella Deloria, a Dakotan Indian. All three women wrote significant works on anthropology and i list some of them below. I have Hurstons book on my 2021 TBR list, i am now searching for the others:
Tell My Horse by Zora Neale Hurston (exploring voodoo culture in Jamaica and Haiti) 1930s
Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead(1928)
Dakota Grammar by Ella Deloria written with Franz Boas(expensive and seems out of print)
I read Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica last year as part of my Paranormal Reading Month - with reports of supernatural occurrences and zombies, it certainly qualified. I thought it very good, and I'm interested on what your evaluation will be of some of the events Hurston narrates. Speaking of Boas, Wikipedia says he died in the arms of Claude Lévi-Strauss; an article on the latter in the NYRB led me to add Tristes Tropiques to my TBR.
The Seventh Mansion by Maryse Meijer
I've read Meijer's Northwood: A Novella not long ago, and after finishing this, realise that she has something a bit special about her writing, although I don't absolutely love it, I do find it completely fascinating. Northwood was written as a prose poem - this has a more traditional format, but that is where any comparison to the horror genre finishes; though it may fit into that genre of the bizarre and weird, where pretty much anything goes.
This is the story of 14 year old Xie, who changed his name from Alex at the age of 12, and who has moved from California to a rural Southern town to live with his father Erik. He doesn't fit in with his male peers, more so with the girls, and has a passionate interest in animal rights. When he gets suspended from school, he and his only friends, Jo and Leni, attempt to free the minks from a local farm, but things go wrong, and Xie is the only one caught.
Nothing strange so far.. nor in a disturbed youngster conjuring up an imaginary friend, but the subject matter soon includes masturbation and necrophilia, which to state the obvious, won't be to everyone's taste..
Rather than shying away from the darker sides of adolescence, as many writers do - abnormal behaviour, depression and sexual curiosity - Meijer confronts it head on, and the result is a unique and bold piece of fiction.
It bares her own style also, as Northwood did, presented as a poem. The sentences are short, and direct. Rather than using commas, ellipsis, colons, she uses the full stop, often.
It does fit into those neat headings of being 'coming of age' or 'climate fiction', but prospective readers should not be fooled into thinking that this is anything like normal..
Bill wrote: "I read Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica last year as part of my Paranormal Reading Month - with reports of supernatural occurrences and zombies, it certainly qualifi..."as usual bill, you dont disappoint! making a note of that levi-strauss book now, i plan to read Hurston in a few weeks, its sitting under a few other books on the pile
Andy wrote: "Its useful in that youve told me how bleak it is... I suspected it might be. I really struggle with films of books I have seen. Almost all I pack up on.."Excellent film, beautiful cinematography, great acting. I understand some people might consider it heavy-going - unsurprisingly, given the subject and the historical context -, but IMO it never becomes heavy-handed; it's in many ways subtly treated and not moralising at all. I found in it plenty of food for thought.
I wholeheartedly recommend watching it! (Scorcese at his best, if you ask me).
But I've never read the novel, so can't really state an opinion about the faithfulness of the cinematic adaptation.
Tam wrote: "Shelflife_wasBooklooker wrote: "Tam wrote #142:
"I have received an enormous book as a birthday present (tomorrow 11th, which I'm glad to see that I share with Douglas Adams) from my son in Spai..."
Tam, hope you're having a suitably festive evening. We are toasting my son getting a new job so we'll toast you as well (well I will!).
Haitam Tamku
May your manuscript
Ever illuminated
Tell the best stories
Happy birthday Tam.As someone who worked in a bank branch for the vast majority of my working life, I can attest to the number of customers who came in saying "that isn't my transaction." So you send off for the credit card receipt from whichever other bank and put it before the customer. "Oh yes, I had forgotten that." they say. So don't think you are on your own Lisa!
Bank branches here have remained open for customers during lockdown, but with a limit to the number of customers allowed in at a time.
Back on book topics, I am curently reading No, 7 in Mick Herron's Slough House seriesand enjoying it very much. Lamb is just as revolting as ever and Taverner just as devious and self-serving.
CCCubbon wrote: "Yesterday I managed to get myself in a proper tizzy trying to update my security for mobile banking, getting in such a muddle that the bank eventually locked me out of my account.It all started b..."
As someone who started working in computers back in the dark ages when computers were huge and expensive, I, too, can get frustrated today. I blame the 23-year-old computer science majors whose real-life experience is not well formed.
On a side note back when I got into the 'business,' most programmers were women and only when it became so popular did the guys muscle us out!
Discussion point: Hard v Soft literatureHaving already read 3 of the 4 short stories in the theodor storm collection, i have been thinking about the idea of "hard" and "soft" lit. These terms are general ones but i would classify "soft" lit as being less attached to violence,sordid details and a sort of hard edged cynicism.
Predictably the further you back, the less these things are figure in literature, there is more allusion to deeds and thoughts. With Storm its a world of realism but without labouring the point, saying that "Germinal" is a great novel despite its consistently bleak message
I'm reminded of the lovely Justine as i type, because her outlook on reading was remarkably similar to my mothers and books that i and Justine enjoyed are now passing round my mothers zoom-book club. My mother was similar age to Justine and not too keen on novels of sordid violence and cynicism, as i have reached into my mid 40s, i am finding a similar approach, though i still mix it up.(The Sea Wolf was one long macho series of beatings, with literary merit)
the key soft novel for me is The Fortnight in September by Sheriff, a simple, two weeks in a lower middle class family, holidaying in bognor. again this is realism not escape but realism without malice, sordid details, violence and cynicism
interested in any views, i've probably rambled off the point and i badly need a haircut, i'm getting like Worzel Gummidge (pertwee vintage, not the new version)
giveusaclue wrote: "Happy birthday tAm.As someone who worked in a bank branch for the vast majority of my working life, I can attest to the number of customers who came in saying "that isn't my transaction." So you..."
Link to an interviews with Mick Herron by the Mysterious Bookshop in NYC - https://mailchi.mp/sohopress/soho-cri...
Here's the parting sentence - Where the slow horses have ended up, of course, is exactly where they began, in Slough House. It’s my job, and remains my joy, to keep them occupied there.
Like most people I suppose, I am self taught, starting with the old commodore64 which still lives in the drawer in my desk - the days of trailing wires across the room connected to the tv. For my sins I did teach Formal Specification for a couple of years but there it was the logic and language definition with all those symbolic signs to master, no programming.
Generally I can muddle along and work things out. The greatest difficulty for me concerns insufficiently clear instructions. Where to find a specific point on a website to click on is sometimes problematic. I am really saying that it is often a language rather than a computer problem
I was so relieved when I managed it this morning.
scarletnoir wrote # 120: "I am a huge admirer of Dostoyevsky; on the other hand, few things bore me more than gambling, or stories about gambling.I read The Gambler many years ago, and although it had some positive qualities (what book by D. doesn't?) it was a long way from his best, IMO. It's a great pity that, if your group wanted to read one of his shorter works, you didn't choose Notes from Underground, or the novelised memoir The House of the Dead, which describes his time in a Siberian prison camp."
I fear you may be right, scarlet, though I liked it a lot when I read it last year. The delirious depictions of the gambling addiction felt very immediate, proving a strong contrast to the stasis evident in the book's other contexts.
Ah well, my reading group might be so happy we are meeting up again for the first time since late last summer, they may forgive my possibly misguided choice (here's hoping). Also, we will devote about half the session to talking about new favourite reads discovered since the last meeting.
In any case, as we will meet digitally, for the first time ever, and several group members are far from silver surfers, it is going to be an interesting evening! Really hope it will work out - and am quite excited about it.
Tam wrote # 187: "It seems that me, Douglas and Janosch all share the quest for 'the meaning of life' between us."
The search continues...
https://www.akg-images.de/Docs/AKG/Me...
1355 image of “Homo viator" (the travelling human), taken from “Les Trois Pèlerinages" by Guillaume de Degulleville, a French monk and poet.
(sorry for not posting the image directly - it's worth having a look, though)
Bill wrote # 134:
At a first glance, the "rota/taro/..." image looks as if we were not so far off alchemy once more!
Bill wrote # 164: "The same Adolf von Menzel painting on the cover as my copy of Effi Briest."
That made me wonder what his "Iron Rolling Mill", https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..., might be a fitting cover for?
North and South maybe?
Machenbach wrote # 155: "Oulipian"
Oh, a (to me) new word! And that's an intriguing crossword.
AB76 wrote # 159: "Theodor Storm"
Great to see you are having an enjoyable read with this.
CCCubbon wrote # 183: "Access/ password problem"
Glad it turned out o.k., after all. What a bother.
You are not alone. Last week, I wasted almost an hour, all in all, with trying to post something for work during various attempts on different days.
I was informed on trying to log in, to my surprise, that my password for the internet portal was wrong. I was pretty sure it wasn't. But I changed it. Then, after having logged in successfully, I clicked on a link in the same internet portal, not requiring a new login as a rule, but, in this case, I was forced to enter my password again, and on the attempt, again was informed it was wrong.
Well, it wasn't. It became obvious there was a Catch-22 bug in the system. I gave it up for a bad job on Friday and just tried again this week. It worked, took me about two minutes. Quite the difference!
reen wrote # 197: "son's new job"
Oh, brilliant! Slanté. That's the one who knew about the kanban board, right? A very happy start to him in the new place. And hats off for finding a new job in these times! Will he have to move?
A bit late, but still: I was very touched (and thus muted, a bit) by your reply to me here the other day. Thank you. I am very happy to return the compliment! Sincerely.
AB76 wrote: "i badly need a haircut, i'm getting like Worzel Gummidge (pertwee vintage, not the new version)."You need a haircut? My fringe is now down to my chin.
AB76 wrote: "Discussion point: Hard v Soft literatureHaving already read 3 of the 4 short stories in the theodor storm collection, i have been thinking about the idea of "hard" and "soft" lit. These terms are..."
my halfpenny's worth is that I too do not like cynicism and violence. I have no problem with characters being put though a 'mill' of struggle, which could be violent in some part, but whatever I appreciate, it is that a story should be well told, and that whatever the violence, it has to be part of the story, and to therefore have a purpose to it. And I guess I actively seek out those stories of overcoming the adversity.
I have been reading about Ernest Hemingway and his struggle with depression. He had various serious injuries to his head. A skylight fell on him, he was injured in the Spanish civil war, and he was in a serious car crash. But the telling point to me is that he allowed himself to submit to electro-convulsive therapy, in order to cure his depression, and is reported to have lost some of his memory as a result, and in response he wrote “It was a brilliant cure but we lost the patient,” shortly before committing suicide.
There are many kinds of violence, and some of them do not look like violence at all, and can actually be dressed up as the cure. I think that at least some of those who practised ECT did think it might help cure severe mental disorders, but also I think that it was driven by the idea of a 'quick fix', which is a sort of a 'holy grail' for 'doctorism'.
But really I think that many of the people suffering from mental disorders are those whose lives are blighted by the fact that their expectations of life do not match up with the reality of what they are actually living, and that a vision of how they thought that they ought to be behaving, had stepped outside of the confines of their normative roles. How you actually feel, that which you want to be, to be true to yourself, is the disconnect which is, I think, the hardest to deal with.
Shelflife_wasBooklooker wrote: "scarletnoir wrote # 120: "I am a huge admirer of Dostoyevsky; on the other hand, few things bore me more than gambling, or stories about gambling.I read The Gambler many years ago, an..."
The very one, BL. He will be Dublin based in the short term, but then "out foreign" as the saying goes in some quarters. He gave his notice today in his current job so we broke open a bottle. Any excuse not to wait until Friday. My husband made a very formal speech, which was very touching but I had to suppress an overwhelming urge not to laugh. That Thursday "nearly there" feeling. My son knows Megan Nolan and is reading her book Acts of Desperation. He has just finished Naoise Dolan's Exciting Times; he'll be hard pressed to find another rhyming writer. Thumbs up to both the aforementioned. Not for the first time, it strikes me they are a mutually supportive generation.
giveusaclue wrote: "AB76 wrote: "i badly need a haircut, i'm getting like Worzel Gummidge (pertwee vintage, not the new version)."You need a haircut? My fringe is now down to my chin."
Phil Oakey style? circa 1981?
Tam wrote: "AB76 wrote: "Discussion point: Hard v Soft literatureHaving already read 3 of the 4 short stories in the theodor storm collection, i have been thinking about the idea of "hard" and "soft" lit. Th..."
i find that the explicit nature of violence, sadism and sex gets worse as literature has evolved over time. For me, some of the best literature leaves all three off the page but can hint at what might have happened and unsettle the mind a little but also spare the blow by blow accounts.
When i find a novel lingering over these topics i do begin to wonder and grow tired with it all. Especially violence towards the powerless, the disabled,women and children. Saying that a lot of novels i read have elements of all the things i dislike and they are balanced, which works better. I'm the same with films, i'd rather not see it all, i am not a voyeur, i guess
i'm not squeamish, violence doesnt make me feel like wanting to deny it exists, likewise sexual content doesnt make me feel prudish, i guess i just feel its up to an author to provide balance.
Reen wrote: "Tam wrote: "Shelflife_wasBooklooker wrote: "Tam wrote #142:
"I have received an enormous book as a birthday present (tomorrow 11th, which I'm glad to see that I share with Douglas Adams) from my..."
Thank you Reen. I will salute you in reciprocal response... hic... And good luck to your son, may his travels be interesting and filled with kindness and goodwill wherever they take him...
AB76 wrote: "giveusaclue wrote: "AB76 wrote: "i badly need a haircut, i'm getting like Worzel Gummidge (pertwee vintage, not the new version)."You need a haircut? My fringe is now down to my chin."
Phil Oake..."
Well I haven't cut it in half vertically. Yet.
Lljones wrote: "CCCubbon wrote: "Does anyone else get in a muddle with security systems and feel positively guilty?..."Poor you. Glad it's sorted.
Here's my version of this story: Last summer, early days in Co..."
I can certainly identify with your problem, and CCC's.
Recently, we had a couple of mystery charges on our credit card... the online statement didn't provide enough details. We contacted the bank, cancelled the payments and the card. A while later, we were contacted with information to prove the charges were legit - my wife had forgotten a couple of purchases, and there simply was no information online to let us know what had been bought, or from which company.
This is not infrequent; why don't card issuers insist that companies put more easily recognised information into the systems?
As for passwords - we have had nightmare scenarios being locked out of Apple systems, as at one time (no more? not sure...) it was possible to have TWO passwords - one for 'Apple', and one for the 'Apple Store'. Use the wrong one, and you are buggered. Got it sorted, eventually, not even sure how...
Anybody on here read The Windsor Knot? By SJ Bennett? It got recommended to me by amazon, but what do they know ..
AB76 wrote: "Georg wrote: "AB76 wrote: "I am confused with the Imperial German census for Schleswig(previously the Danish Duchy of Schleswig, the southern area was part of Germany from 1860s), in that it has th..."Well, I have been spending a significant time of my life in Lippe (or very close to it) - and I am lutherian. But then my personal religious history is a mishmash of a goulash of a mix of religions: I was Old Catholic (not Roman catholic) baptised, went to my First Holy Communion at 8 years old in a Roman Catholic church, changed to Lutherian when I was 10 (because my mom and dad decided that for me, I wasn't the age of religious majority)
I lived in small more Catholic enclave in "Lippe" - and there most Protestants were simply Lutherian. But that is anecdote.
The only thing I never was is an Orthodox Christian. (Well, if we leave the regional variety of Egypt out - no many people outside Egypt are Coptian - and besides they are a sub group to the Orthodox ...) - I am as unorthodox as they come ... :P (Yes, I know where my coat is, why?)
FranHunny wrote: "AB76 wrote: "Georg wrote: "AB76 wrote: "I am confused with the Imperial German census for Schleswig(previously the Danish Duchy of Schleswig, the southern area was part of Germany from 1860s), in t..."But I forgot to add: That the North of Germany is more Calvinistic may have to do something with the 30-year-war .. 1618 to 1648 decided a lot of religious fates.
Shelflife_wasBooklooker wrote: "they may forgive my possibly misguided choice..." Ah, apologies! I hadn't understood that The Gambler was your own choice - I assumed it was someone else's... no intention to diss you... and as I say, anything by Dostoyevsky has areas of interest...
FranHunny wrote: "Anybody on here read The Windsor Knot? By SJ Bennett? It got recommended to me by amazon, but what do they know .."No knowledge of the book, but Amazon recommendations are 'approximate', to put it mildly! Even based apparently on items I bought for myself... as for 'recommendations' based on items bought for my mother or daughters, these can be downright odd.
FranHunny wrote: "AB76 wrote: "Georg wrote: "AB76 wrote: "I am confused with the Imperial German census for Schleswig(previously the Danish Duchy of Schleswig, the southern area was part of Germany from 1860s), in t..."thanks fran, no need to get the coat, thats very interesting
my final theory on Schleswig came to me last night, it was the only region of Imperial Germany in 1885, that had been outside the reich only 20 or so years before, hence the confessional statistics would reflect a different country(ie Denmark), which would make the census collection more tricky. Of course Alsace-Lorraine was occupied in 1870 but with a significantly larger catholic population, it probably didnt look a lot different to Baden on the other side of the border
Baedeker FacePalm No 1: An Occasional SeriesTheodor Storm was born and lived a lot of his life in the far northern town of Husum, an attractive port in the dyke and polder based region of Nord Friesland on the far NW coast of Germany.
Baedeker 1898, in its guide to travel between Kiel (largest town in Schleswig-Holstein) and Nordfiesland, describes Husum as a "dull seaport" and leaves it at that. Talk to the hand!!!
Machenbach wrote: "Tam wrote: "I think that at least some of those who practised ECT did think it might help cure severe mental disorders, but also I think that it was driven by the idea of a 'quick fix', which is a ..."was that the same therapy that one of JFK's sisters had? Or was it a cruder, older version?
Hi everyone, long time no see! I hope you're all well. I've been away working through a video game backlog so I haven't been reading as much as normal.Glad contacted me about Justine and I wanted to say how terribly sorry I am and how sad the news made me. She was a kind, thoughtful and empathetic member of TLS and I can't quite believe she's gone. I know many people here were very close to her and I hope you are all doing alright.
I'm halfway through the new Kazuo Ishiguro book, "Klara and the Sun" and I absolutely adore it. If anyone else here is reading it I'd be eager to hear your thoughts!
It's been a while since I read an Ishiguro book and I forgot how quietly and unbearably sad they are, and how careful and calm his narrative voice always is. In a strange way, because I absolutely mean this as a huge compliment when it could be taken as an insult, is style is perfect for a book from the POV of an android because there's always something so formal and proper in his writing that feels almost robotic and it translates into something almost unbearably emotional without resorting to melodrana.
Machenbach wrote: "AB76 wrote: "Machenbach wrote: "Tam wrote: "I think that at least some of those who practised ECT did think it might help cure severe mental disorders, but also I think that it was driven by the id..."havent ever read about ECT, just wondered
Miri wrote: "It's been a while since I read an Ishiguro book and I forgot how quietly and unbearably sad they are, and how careful and calm his narrative voice always is. In a strange way, because I absolutely ..."I have it waiting like some delicious treat, tantalising for Ishiguro is my favourite modern author for the reasons you give. I am running up to my next injection so am saving it until after that when it may be better to savour the book.
When I was last in Italy I would stand gazing at the patisserie in the windows, all that cake, meringues, chocolate, cream and I think of the waiting book in the same way!
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