Thank you for including me in your "Interesting Libraries." I gather we share interests in Japanese literature, Sherlock Holmes, and gnosticism among other things. I also admire Poe and Emily Dickinson, though I am not a serious scholar of their work. My mother once heard a neice of Dickinson's lecture, who said if Aunt Emily could hear what the critics were saying about her, she would be runnig through heaven slamming all the doors behind her. (I think this referred to some of the speculations about her personal life.)
The only Argentine literature I have read at all extensively is the writings of Borges --while I began by reading his short stories, I have found my favorites are some of his poems on Norse and Old English themes, like the ones on the death of Snorri Sturluson and on Hengest.
I am very weak on the Scandinavian languages, but I have been working my way slowly through a Swedish Bible and have reached the end of the Book of Ezekiel.
I read some Old Norse in graduate school but unfortunately I have not practiced it regularly.

skrevet af antiquary kl. 2:12 pm (EST) den Jun 15, 2008

Estimada Maria, Now, you have me thinking of using Ikkyu's self-portrait for me!
Enjoyed poesia.com eight years ago and was thinking maybe i should go to Argentina, then . . .
Didn't know there was a chess group here, but i better stay away, for i am afraid i would want to advertize what japanese call go. I think it the better game and the fact the occident has largely ignored it speaks poorly of our intelligence. . .

And thank you for your kind words re my library . . .

Jag vill har en rikdig djur. See, i recall some Swedish. That was a line in Rustibus un Gold Hamster by Kar de Mummas which was the first and the last story i read in swedish before the freighter i worked on got me back to usania from japan. keigu

skrevet af keigu kl. 11:10 pm (EST) den Jun 6, 2008

Nice user-pic! I always loved her.

skrevet af jbushnell kl. 9:36 am (EST) den Jan 30, 2008