Thank you, Steve!🌷The quality of both video and audio is fine. When you mentioned T.S. Eliot’s essay “What Dante means to me” I paused your video and immediately looked for it. I’m very happy I’ve found an affordable copy of that essay collection on the website of a second-hand bookshop here in the Netherlands. I have some other essays of Eliot’s on the Divina Commedia and La Vita Nuova, but not that one. Very much looking forward to reading it! By the way, I love The Waste Land…
I love the Library of America volumes. Living in New Zealand at least I have access to ebook versions of them, but I would love to one day have some physical volumes. Particularly interested in the Science Fiction and Crime/Noir volumes.
20:55 Med student here. Sympathetic opthalmia occurs due to an autoimmune reaction to antigens in the eye. The immune system doesn't interact with eye antigens under regular circumstances but trauma can release these antigens into the blood. The immune system goes haywire and attacks the other healthy eye thinking it's a foreign body.
Hmmm, video quality is OK here, and the audio is actually quite good afaic. In fact, the recording volume is better than most of your vids which tend to be very low volume. Didn't have to turn this up at all to hear your dulcet tones clearly... 😃
I agree. The quality of the visuals and audios is just fine maybe a bit better than in the past. The only thing I noticed was that the camera angle as slightly, just slightly different maybe a notch or two. Nop need to make any changes.
I read the Alexandria Quartet as it came out starting with Justine. It was the literary equivalent of a painting by Klimt, a sort of lapidary style. The character development and plot were a bit mystifying. Although I enjoyed the books at the time I really didn't feel the Quartet was as good as the hype. Also, I was reading Anthony Powell's Music of Time series around the same period which I thought was much better. Durrell was sort of a mystic about Egypt, but not being much of a mystic myself, and never having visited Egypt, it was a bit of a bridge too far. And after that, I never read anything else by Durrell though I wanted to read The Black Book but never could get into it. Still the Quartet gave me a feeling for a strange place, a mixing of cultures, and a far different set of morals, than existed in the West. In a way it prepared me for countries in which I would later spend a couple years : Thailand and Iran. They probably would have felt much stranger to me than they did had I not read the Quartet. They were strange, of course, in different, almost opposite ways--Buddhist versus Islamic, but both ancient and both coming to terms with the modern world. That said, your video was just fine technically, and I wish you a Happy New Year!
You know, you really are missing a trick by not renaming your channel: 'The Books, The Bean & The Sexy RUclips Influencer'. That's what I think I'm going to pretend it's called anyway. Happy 'First Brattle Of The Year'!
Gentleman's gentleman just made me think of the line from Frasier: "Your father also butled?" "Yes sir, even my father's father was a gentleman's gentleman"
This looks completely different from the video quality of your free book haul?.. The sound is fine but the picture is poor.. The previous video quality is much better and makes you less washed out?..
Thank you, Steve!🌷The quality of both video and audio is fine. When you mentioned T.S. Eliot’s essay “What Dante means to me” I paused your video and immediately looked for it. I’m very happy I’ve found an affordable copy of that essay collection on the website of a second-hand bookshop here in the Netherlands. I have some other essays of Eliot’s on the Divina Commedia and La Vita Nuova, but not that one. Very much looking forward to reading it! By the way, I love The Waste Land…
I love the Library of America volumes.
Living in New Zealand at least I have access to ebook versions of them, but I would love to one day have some physical volumes. Particularly interested in the Science Fiction and Crime/Noir volumes.
Edward Mitchell? Well, damn. There goes my Hundred Book Challenge!
How very authentically New England of you to use the word "flensing!"
Nice haul!
20:55
Med student here. Sympathetic opthalmia occurs due to an autoimmune reaction to antigens in the eye. The immune system doesn't interact with eye antigens under regular circumstances but trauma can release these antigens into the blood. The immune system goes haywire and attacks the other healthy eye thinking it's a foreign body.
That's fascinating! So once again, a problem is caused by the immune system instead of solved by it!
@@saintdonoghue Yep, that's why the brain, eye and testes are normally granted immune privilege. Really interesting stuff.
The Durrells in Corfu led me to bring home a well-worn adorable boxed set of the Alexandria Quartet from a little free library. Must try them soon…
Classical canonical works is an area I will concentrate on when building my personal library.
Hmmm, video quality is OK here, and the audio is actually quite good afaic. In fact, the recording volume is better than most of your vids which tend to be very low volume. Didn't have to turn this up at all to hear your dulcet tones clearly... 😃
I agree. The quality of the visuals and audios is just fine maybe a bit better than in the past. The only thing I noticed was that the camera angle as slightly, just slightly different maybe a notch or two. Nop need to make any changes.
I read the Alexandria Quartet as it came out starting with Justine. It was the literary equivalent of a painting by Klimt, a sort of lapidary style. The character development and plot were a bit mystifying. Although I enjoyed the books at the time I really didn't feel the Quartet was as good as the hype. Also, I was reading Anthony Powell's Music of Time series around the same period which I thought was much better. Durrell was sort of a mystic about Egypt, but not being much of a mystic myself, and never having visited Egypt, it was a bit of a bridge too far. And after that, I never read anything else by Durrell though I wanted to read The Black Book but never could get into it. Still the Quartet gave me a feeling for a strange place, a mixing of cultures, and a far different set of morals, than existed in the West. In a way it prepared me for countries in which I would later spend a couple years : Thailand and Iran. They probably would have felt much stranger to me than they did had I not read the Quartet. They were strange, of course, in different, almost opposite ways--Buddhist versus Islamic, but both ancient and both coming to terms with the modern world. That said, your video was just fine technically, and I wish you a Happy New Year!
my only resolution this year is to shop the brattle carts! i think i need to go this month before or if we start to get any snow
I just looked it up and that Golden Ass volume is circa 1924. There’s one on Abe books for sale with the same green cover.
I hear you about the Alexandria Quartet never did it for me, tried a couple of times
You know, you really are missing a trick by not renaming your channel: 'The Books, The Bean & The Sexy RUclips Influencer'. That's what I think I'm going to pretend it's called anyway. Happy 'First Brattle Of The Year'!
*starts chant of "BRA-TTULL... BRA-TTULL..."*
Audio absolutely fine
Gentleman's gentleman just made me think of the line from Frasier:
"Your father also butled?"
"Yes sir, even my father's father was a gentleman's gentleman"
Steve found the Golden Ass... Well, if anyone was going to... The only more sure thing was Steve finding the washboard abs... 😆👍
BRA-TTULL.. BRA-TULL 🪧
I have yet to read Wodehouse
But you have some, yes? I could swear I've seen some on your shelves -
@@saintdonoghue I do! On the tbr…
Audio is great. Video is a little fuzzy. 👍🏻
Sophie Ratcliffe did Wodehouse's letters
This looks completely different from the video quality of your free book haul?..
The sound is fine but the picture is poor..
The previous video quality is much better and makes you less washed out?..