Amazon upped the monetary free shipping requirement

So I thought Solti one of Tannhauser was promising...



and then noticed this;

"$4.63 & FREE Shipping on orders over $35. Details "

Amazon just upped it from $25 to $35 -_-

First tax and now this;;;;;;

Books I've borrowed

Not indicative of whether I'll finish those lol, just that I'm quite interested in the subjects(and yes, some of'em are movie dvds);

Archduke Franz Ferdinand lives! : a world without World War I / by Lebow, Richard Ned	39009050767389	04/14/2014	05/05/2014	0
	Camelot's court : inside the Kennedy White House / by Dallek, Robert	39009050695333	04/15/2014	05/06/2014	0
	Chomsky and Dershowitz : on endless war and the end of civil liberties / by Friel, Howard, 1955-	39009050786975	04/14/2014	05/05/2014	0
	Constellation of genius : 1922: modernism year one / by Jackson, Kevin, 1955-	39009050680731	04/14/2014	05/05/2014	0
	Den skaldede frisør Love is all you need / by Bier, Susanne, 1960-	39009040397016	04/15/2014	04/22/2014	0
	Diana by Jeffreys, Stephen	39009040450450	04/14/2014	04/21/2014	0
	Doctor Who. The time of the Doctor by Moffat, Steven, 1961-	39009040449262	04/15/2014	04/22/2014	0
	Ender's game by Ender's game (Motion picture)	39009040396976	04/14/2014	04/21/2014	0
	The guns at last light : the war in Western Europe, 1944-1945 / by Atkinson, Rick	39009040237535	04/14/2014	05/05/2014	0
	The life and death of the Spanish Republic : a witness to the Spanish Civil War / by Buckley, Henry, 1904-1972, author.	39009050640925	04/14/2014	05/05/2014	0
	Richard Wagner : a life in music / by Geck, Martin	39009050796610	03/24/2014	05/05/2014	1
	The Vicomte de Bragelonne / by Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870

Now I want to listen Wagner's Tannhauser

After reading Geck's section of it; many profess of being quite overwhelmed with it, such as Albert Schweitzer and Brect. Even anti Wagnerian Schumann admitted of being impressed.

reader determine the usefulness of a book

Pro captu lectoris habent sua fata libelli

Books succeed or fail(have their own destinies) according to the ability of the reader

Terentianus Maurus 1282ff.

Catullus on foolish smiles

Nam risu inepto res ineptior nulla set.

Carmina 39

Nothing is more foolish than foolish laughter

Berenson on anti Semitism

Alsmoted finished reading and next is Wagner bio by Martin Geck.

p. 257 Cohen

"It is notorious that whenever comfortable society in the remoter past, and capitalism in recent days, wanted to draw attention away from its own privileges, and its own exploitation of the working classes, they tried to make out it was thedoing of the Jews, gave them up to massacre ad so lately in Rumania, Holy Russia..or to contumely and contempt in less barbarous countries"

Mt. Rushmore is at South Dakota?

Bramd new 2013 quarter coin says so lol.

Berenson & Wharton on Da Vinci's Last Supper

B.B;

" What a pack of vehement, gesticulating, noisy foreigners they are, with faces far from pleasant, some positively criminal, some comspirators, and others having bo biz to be there..Bit I never dared say it out loud"

Edith Wharton's reply to B.B

"I've wanted to bash that picture's gace, and now, now, at last, the most authorized fist in the world has done the job for me! Hooray!!"

Lol.

Cohen, p. 214

'sassiety'

Bella de Costa Greene to B.B in Mar. 1914

"Your great love of people amd sassiety.."

Cohen, p. 181

Lytton Strachey on Geoffrey Scott

"He remains a confirmed sodomite, and Mrs. Berenson covers him with fur coats, editiojs of rare books, etc, of which he accepts without a word and without an erection"

Cohen, p. 171