Une connaissance inutile est le troisième ouvrage de Charlotte Delbo sur les camps de concentration. …
En enfer
on ne voit pas mourir ses camarades
en enfer
la mort n’est pas une menace
en enfer
on n’a plus ni faim ni soif
en enfer
on n’attend plus
en enfer
il n’y a plus d’espoir
et l’espoir est d’angoisse
au cœur d’où le sang se retire.
Pourquoi dites-vous que c’est l’enfer,
ici.
En Louisiane à la fin du XIXe siècle la vie est paisible: villas du bord …
Exquis ce chapitre où Edna refuse de rentrer se coucher malgré les protestations de son mari. Elle reste installée à l'extérieur sur un hamac et résiste à un mari déconcerté par le comportement de sa femme. L'époux finit par s'installer dehors, non loin d'elle, pour fumer cigare sur cigare. Puis Edna ne sait plus trop pourquoi elle a tant résisté et (en quelque sorte) capitule. Elle rentre tandis que son mari reste dehors quelques minutes supplémentaires.
There's something to be flagged here about editions versus works, but I'm much too tired to keep track of my own thoughts on it. Broadly speaking, though: hopefully these two critically distinct technical roles will not get muddled up in all the talk of books because in some cases "book" really ought to be either "edition" or "work" and to assume the wrong meaning would cause hassle down the line! [2]
In the meantime, I am going to wean myself off the buzz of keeping absolutely complete records through status-shelving[3]; learn to love the annual Reading Goal page as a clue to the state of each edition's …
There's something to be flagged here about editions versus works, but I'm much too tired to keep track of my own thoughts on it. Broadly speaking, though: hopefully these two critically distinct technical roles will not get muddled up in all the talk of books because in some cases "book" really ought to be either "edition" or "work" and to assume the wrong meaning would cause hassle down the line! [2]
In the meantime, I am going to wean myself off the buzz of keeping absolutely complete records through status-shelving[3]; learn to love the annual Reading Goal page as a clue to the state of each edition's respective "Your reading activity"; and be more attentive as to how the reading date data fall. [5]
Looking forward to that refactor --- settling into a groove should become more intuitive afterwards, especially for newcomers. (And I find the idea of independent privacy settings for reading activity exciting! I worry, lightly, sometimes about doxxing my mates or embarrassing author acquaintances if my reading history veers someday toooo niche, you know? What other uses will people come up with from such powerful new affordances? Super cool!)
[1] That would be BookWyrm pull request # 2170: 'Refactors reading status Shelf and ReadThrough logic'
[2] I get the impression not many other wyrmsters are juggling multiple editions in their reading activity yet.
[3] I will still exploit whatever loophole lets me shelve multiple editions of a work at once under "Currently Reading" (and thus enjoy all the associated mod cons on the homepage); but nominate only one of them for the "Read"/"Stopped Reading" shelves[4].
[4] This could be a problem if one edition proves worth finishing while another definitively does not. And by could I mean without a doubt will be. Sooo fingers crossed I (and anyone else in this sort of position) finish everything or get even more over status-shelving before that problem arises. That is, until # 2170 is implemented and hopefully editions' actions can fly around properly independently of each other...?
[5] While continuing to keep my own records off-wyrm.
