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Fahrenheit 451 (1966) poster by Gy\u00f6rgy Kem\u00e9ny<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 “The novel is constantly assailed by people wanting to conscript it to their own ends.\u00a0(Other\u00a0art\u00a0forms are not similarly burdened; someone yelling ‘What about global warming?’ between numbers at a Keith Jarrett concert would be recognized to have made a category error.)” Jonathan Clarke<\/a> on the demands that literature should nurture empathy.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The first three features by Alejandro Jodorowsky\u2014Fando y Lis<\/em> (1968), El Topo<\/em> (1970) and The Holy Mountain<\/em> (1973)\u2014return to Britain’s cinema screens in January<\/a> (well…two of them return; I’m not sure that Fando y Lis<\/em> has ever been shown in cinemas over here). All three films will be given overdue blu-ray releases by Arrow in March.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “What distinguishes Oulipo from other language games, is that its methods have to be capable of producing valid literary results.” Tony White<\/a> reviews The Penguin Book of Oulipo: Queneau, Perec, Calvino and the Adventure of Form<\/em>, edited by Philip Terry.<\/p>\n

But from a present-day perspective, it is also remarkable the extent to which caf\u00e9s, busy conduits for knowledge and sentiment, resembled later digitally connected systems. The larger establishments offered not just a huge selection of newspapers, domestic and foreign, but also reference material\u2014maps, dictionaries, encyclopaedias, language lexicons, address books\u2014for writers struggling with their research, or merely trying to settle an argument. The combination of hard facts and caffeinated opinion firing through the steamy analogue ether constituted a local area network of extraordinary reach. In the pre-digital era, the Viennese caf\u00e9 offered the greatest possible concentration of current knowledge\u2014for the price of a m\u00e9lange<\/em>.<\/p>\n

From the Strange Flowers guide to Vienna<\/a>, part 2<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 “People like Edmund Wilson and Isaiah Berlin, they have to love Zhivago<\/i> to prove that good writing can come out of Soviet Russia. They ignore that it is really a bad book<\/i>.” Jennifer Wilson<\/a> on Vladimir Nabokov’s fighting spirit.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Master animator Richard Williams died in August so here again is the exceptional adaptation of A Christmas Carol<\/em><\/a> made by his studio in 1971.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Hearing a person: Annea Lockwood<\/a> remembers her partner, composer Ruth Anderson, whose death was announced last week.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The London Review of Books<\/em><\/a> has relaunched its website. The paywall is currently down until mid-January so dig in.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Live In Paris<\/em> by Pharoah Sanders<\/a>, a previously unreleased ORTF concert recording from 1975.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Unrising sun: Amos Chapple’s photographs<\/a> of the polar nights of Murmansk.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mary McNamara<\/a> on the rescuing of 200 historic Hollywood backdrops.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mix of the week: XLR8R Podcast 623 by Aida<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Dennis Cooper’s: Sandy Dennis<\/a> Day.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Desert Is A Circle<\/a><\/em> (1970) by Shades Of Joy | The Desert Is A Circle<\/a><\/em> (1971) by Paul Horn | Holy Mountain<\/a><\/em> (1994) by Axiom Ambient<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fahrenheit 451 (1966) poster by Gy\u00f6rgy Kem\u00e9ny. \u2022 “The novel is constantly assailed by people wanting to conscript it to their own ends.\u00a0(Other\u00a0art\u00a0forms are not similarly burdened; someone yelling ‘What about global warming?’ between numbers at a Keith Jarrett concert would be recognized to have made a category error.)” Jonathan Clarke on the demands that … Continue reading “Weekend links 496”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52,2,42,51,4,29,7,43,3,44,12],"tags":[10384,718,10382,3513,8924,1480,3109,6631,10373,10378,10379,10375,10374,9273,10381,10383,4001,10387,640,10377,3194,10380,10385,10386,2419,10376,807],"class_list":["post-19427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-art","category-books","category-cities","category-design","category-electronica","category-film","category-magazines","category-music","category-painting","category-photography","tag-aida-musician","tag-alejandro-jodorowsky","tag-amos-chapple","tag-annea-lockwood","tag-axiom-ambient","tag-charles-dickens","tag-dennis-cooper","tag-edmund-wilson","tag-gyorgy-kemeny","tag-isaiah-berlin","tag-jennifer-wilson","tag-jonathan-clarke","tag-keith-jarrett","tag-london-review-of-books","tag-lrb","tag-mary-mcnamara","tag-oulipo","tag-paul-horn","tag-pharoah-sanders","tag-philip-terry","tag-richard-williams","tag-ruth-anderson","tag-sandy-dennis","tag-shades-of-joy","tag-strange-flowers","tag-tony-white","tag-vladimir-nabokov"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-53l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}