The Tyger

In Intellectuals Paul Johnson recalls that Sartre was able to read an average of 300 books a year (respect to what extended period of time, I don´t remember). I shall read much more than I do _I´d wished to and, even, loved to, but such wishes do not come by merely making, but doing, and that´s why we abandone them. It is a pity: we won´t find many others depending enterily on us...

I checked in my pocket padnote and found few wishes (apart form classics, which are too many):

1. Read Faulkner, Buzatti, Proust.
2. Absalom, Absalom, but it is long and requires attention and continuity, which I am not sure to be able to provide.
3. What about Malcolm Lowry´s Under the Volcano?
4. Got intrigued by a friend when he boguht in Madrid an old edition of James George Frazer´s The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion.  Shall I go for it?
5. Crónica del Alba, Ramón J. Sender.
6. Chejov´s La Cerisaie.
7. Christie´s The Mousetrap, and go to the theatre.
8. La Feria de los Discretos, Pío Baroja, 1905.
9. El Matarife, Rafael Arjona.
10. Herbert Le Porrier´s Le Médecin de Cordoue, 1974.
11. El Misterio Carmesí, Antonio Gala, 1990.
12. Las Armas y las Letras, Andrés Trapiello.
13. Apollinaire´s Les Mamelles de Tirésias.
14. A. Jarry´s Ubu Roi, 1896.
15. To give a shot to Kafka, Pirandello, Ionesco, Dürrenmatt.
16. Strinberg´s The Ghost Sonata.
17. Learn what Brecht means by distance effect. Read Brecht.
18. 2011 is 100 Aniversary of Peter Pan´s novel publication. Perhaps, Geraldine McCaughrean´s Peter Pan in Scarlet, but other titles sound good as well: Plundering Paradise.
19. The Carterbury Tales.
20. Laberinto de Fortuna, Juan de Mena.
21. Pierre de Bourdeille´s Rodomontades Espaignolles, perhaps a good gift for a friend I know.
22. Historias de los Indios, Toribio de Benavente.
23. El Auge y el Ocaso del Imperio Español en América, Salvador de Madariaga. Madariaga, I think, he was who said about Ortega y Gasset: "He is a donkey in 5 languages".
24. Historia de los Heterodoxos Españoles, Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo.
25. We have enought Javier Marías; let´s try something by his father, Julián.
26. Un Mundo par Julius, Alfredo Bryce Echenique.

Benedetti: "Oscuro unánime / Sólo queda un farol / Que pide auxilio".

27. Guy Endore´s The Werewolf of Paris, 1933.
28. Desmond Morris´ The Human Zoo.
29. El Examen, Julio Cortázar.
30. Oda a la Ebriedad, Claudio Rodríguez.
31. Conversación en la Catedral, Vargas Llosa.
32. A friend recalled Audrey Niffenegger´s The Fearful Symmetry _Lovers living in London, behind the Highgate cemetry. Could be?

... That fearful symmetry from Blake´s poem, 1794, The Tyger:

The Tyger
William Blake

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare sieze the fire?
And what shoulder, & what art.
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?
What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
When the stars threw down their spears,
And watered heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
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Sweet Beatrice, slip down from your ivory distances and let your breath warm my rest tonight. Tough and small my day was, rough and cold, my soul manifested today... .