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The Turnip Princess & Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales by Franz Xaver Von Schönwerth (Maria Tatar, translator)
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Title: The Turnip Princess & Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales
Author: Franz Xaver Von Schönwerth
Translator: Maria Tatar
Publisher: Penguin Classics, New York (2015)
There was once a farmer, and he had two sons…
One day a prince lost his way in the woods…
A farmer had three sons…
Three young men, a tailor, a miller, and a soldier, found themselves lost in the woods one day…
A nobleman had three daughters, each more beautiful than the next…
This is how fairy tales begin. Not with "once upon a time", but with individuals standing on an empty stage patiently waiting to be told what to do next. Because fairy tales are essentially about the completion of tasks, even when the hero or heroine has no idea what that might lead to. The underlying moral of most fairy tales is – do as you're told and good things will follow.
Franz Xaver Von Schönwerth was a contemporary of the Brothers Grimm. Like them he collected folk tales, employing a scientific method and focusing on a specific region of Bavaria known as the Upper Palatinate. He used questionnaires and carefully recorded the dialect, customs and costumes of the people he interviewed. His work was much admired during his lifetime, but seems to have disappeared after his death. Until 2009 when Erika Eichenseer (a Bavarian author, storyteller & poet) discovered 500 unpublished works in a Bavarian archive.
The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales translates 72 of these newly discovered stories into English. The book divides them into six categories: Tales of Magic and Romance, Enchanted Animals, Otherworldly Creatures, Legends, Tall Tales and Anecdotes and Tales About Nature. And they are quite unlike anything you might have encountered in the past. Yes, there are some familiar themes – such as dancing princesses, a miniature child ("the size of a thumb") and enchanted toads. But in Von Schönwerth's versions the Prince is often the one who needs saving; soldiers carry guns, not swords; the toad is just as likely to be a Princess and even after the hero saves the day he doesn't always get the girl.
What you realize as you read is how spare, fragmentary and contradictory these tales actually are. The Three-Legged Goats (found in Part 2: Enchanted Animals) begins –
"Three young men, a tailor, a miller, and a soldier, found themselves lost in the woods one day. It was growing dark, and they still could not find a way out. The tailor decided to climb to the top of a tree, and from there he could see a light in the distance. He started walking in that direction, without saying a word to his companions, until he reached a castle. The first room he entered had nothing in it but three-legged goats and cats. Some of the cats were playing the fiddle on the tables and benches; others were dancing to the tunes. The tailor was hungry, so he ate some food. Once he was done, he stuffed his pockets with good things to eat and went back to give some food to his companions. After the tailor returned, the miller also climbed the tree, saw the light, found the castle, and discovered everything the tailor had found."
At this point the soldier follows in the footsteps of his two companions and the tailor and miller disappear – never to be mentioned again. The story goes on to tell how the soldier breaks the enchantment on the castle, marries the princess and then journeys home to tell his parents the good news. And where traditional fairy tales might end, this one is just getting started: his wife, discovering he is poor, spurns him. She disappears and the soldier is forced to search for her. While searching he encounters three thieves, from whom he steals three magical items. He uses these three items to find his princess and win her back. And even after all he has done the Princess still questions her father, the King, as to whether she should keep the soldier as her husband. "What should I do? Should I choose a new broom or take back the old one?"
The Three-Legged Goats, like many of the stories in this collection, appears to be a compilation of several fairy tales into one. Which makes sense when you consider that Von Schönwerth's purpose when setting down these tales was to faithfully record the oral history of those he interviewed. These stories were transcribed in the telling – not copied from books. They changed and evolved over time. And so it's not implausible that two or three may have eventually merged together and been condensed into one. Or that a story which began one way would end in another. This results in very different narratives than most of us are accustomed to.
Maria Tatar makes some interesting choices in her translation. Three soldiers, we are told, have "finished their tour of duty". When a huntsman asks three giants if they are planning to free a princess, the giants growl "From her wealth, anyhow." There are more guns mentioned than I remember in The Brothers Grimm. Von Schönwerth lived from 1810-1886, so the modernity of the language and references is not entirely misplaced. But it is definitely unexpected and at times jarring – which might have more to do with my expectations of what a fairy tale is than the quality of the translation.
Hans Christian Anderson, Charles Perrault, Andrew Lang (of the Blue, Red & Green Fairybooks, etc.) and Walk Disney have – for better or worse – shaped most of our expectations of what a fairy tale should be. It is easy to forget that folk tales are just another form of folk art – and that folk art is primitive by definition. The stories in The Turnip Princess range from one to five pages in length, which doesn't leave a lot of room for embellishment. But it is the stripped-down, primitive nature – the potential in these stories of what they can become – which makes this collection so exciting. Consider the literary impact of Cinderella, Beauty & the Beast, Red Riding Hood and Hansel & Gretel. The plots & characters have become archetypal. Their influence can be detected (whether overt or subtle) in many contemporary works of fiction. What, then, might a new generation of writers make of Franz Xaver Von Schönwerth's stories? Of a girl who becomes a snake when her stepmother casts her into a lake? Or a Prince who is kidnapped by a mermaid? Or a beautiful maiden freed from a turnip? Erika Eichenseer's discovery has created new possibilities… new opportunities.
The Scatter Here Is Too Great by Bilal Tanweer
February 2, 2015 § 1 Comment
Title: The Scatter Here Is Too Great
Author: Bilal Tanweer
Publisher: Harper Collins, New York (2014)
A spider web crack is a series of hairline fractures spreading out from a central point of impact. Bilal Tanweer makes this image the motif for his short story collection The Scatter Here Is Too Great. The central point of impact is a bomb blast at the Karachi Train Station in Pakistan. All the stories, eight total, radiate out from and connect back to that one point in time.
Tanweer takes a "community" approach to the event. His characters are as interconnected as his stories; appearing, re-appearing and interacting with one another throughout the book; jumping from one story to the next; telling us about their lives before and after the explosion; gradually revealing their thoughts and feelings in first person narratives (with the exception of one story which is told in the third person present tense). All the narrators are male, predominantly young and speak in voices which veer from self-conscious vulnerability to the cocky arrogance peculiar to young men.
More succinctly: these people, who we expect to be no more than a group of strangers whose collective bad karma has resulted in them being at the wrong place at the wrong time, know each other. For example: there is an elderly man, a Communist poet, who passes through several different stories. In one he recites his poetry on the bus and is derided by other passengers. Later we will see him again, on another bus, though the eyes of the troubled boy he sits beside and talks to. In yet another story we recognize him as the narrator's grandfather, and then as another narrator's the father, and then he has a brief cameo as the friend of the main character's father seen from a distance. Sadeq, the boy on the bus befriended by the poet, narrates more than one chapter and over time describes to us what is a remarkably depressing life for one whose only advanced into his early 20's. Through his story we are linked to another young man who was his childhood friend. And in this way, one thread at a time, we learn about the victims of the bombing. So that when the time comes to tend to the survivors and collect the dead, we have an understanding exactly who each of them is and was in that moment of impact.
Unhelpfully for the purposes of this review, my favorite story is the one that takes place in the weeks after the explosion. The narrator is worried about his brother Akbar, a first responder who develops PTSD as a result of the carnage he confronts in the aftermath of the blast. Akbar is convinced he saw Gog & Magog walking among the bodies of the dead. "If you don't already know about Gog and Magog, their arrival was supposed to mark the coming of the end of the world… They will bring strife and disharmony and, ultimately the apocalypse to the world." Akbar's brother eventually tracks down Gog & Magog and, while they aren't exactly what they appeared to be, we learn that "what appears strange and complex becomes even stranger and more complicated once you begin to investigate it. That's the true nature of the world."
That is Bilal Tanweer's super power as an author. He has a talent for creating beautiful & strange imagery out of life's banalities. He's willing to spend time on the insignificant things we all notice and just as quickly forget. Like a plastic bag blowing in the wind.
My eyes were following the blue plastic bag that floated in between the onrushing cars. It curved sideways, rose and cruised and hung in the air, and finally ran into the path of a pedestrian who slapped it with the back of his hand and pushed it over the edge of the bridge. It limped over it and spiraled like a tiny tornado.
Because, when you think about those men & women entering the Twin Towers on 9/11, or boarding trains in London on 7/11, or riding a bus in Syria on a Sunday morning – they were all having normal, ordinary, even boring, days. Until suddenly they weren't. Tanweer skillfully conveys the individual's sense of normalcy leading up to a catastrophic event, which is so unfathomable to the reader who already possesses the knowledge of what is about to happen, and then allows the environment to degenerate into the chaos and confusion that must inevitably follow.
The Scatter Here is Too Great was on the shortlist for the DSC Prize. It was not selected as the final winner by the Shadow or actual juries – mostly because despite its ambition (or perhaps because of it) the book has integral flaws. The most obvious is how the voices of all the young men blend together as the book progresses. Less obvious, but ultimately more distracting, is how it works too hard at being a "concept" novel. The opening image of the spiderweb crack is an intriguing one, particularly as the story centers on a bomb blast, and so you want it to fall into place naturally. But Tanweer felt the need to insert (what I guess you could call) an element of metafiction: a writer who pops up to provide a sidebar commentary on what is happening and why. Tanweer doesn't seem to fully trust his reader. He's created this writer to explain the structural and creative process… and to a point it succeeds. I was surprised at how well all the stories fit together and played their part in the author's greater narrative plan. But I didn't see it until it was explained. And, like that blue plastic bag, I forgot about it just as quickly. One of the highest praises we as a society give to an artist is to say that he or she "makes it look easy". While The Scatter Here Is Too Great delivers moments of promise, in the end Tanweer succeeds in making it look unaccountably hard.
The Conductor & Other Tales by Jean Ferry (translated from the French by Edward Gauvin)
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Some interests spring fully formed from within, sending us off on a mission to gather information. I find that my obsessions more often evolve. I find myself returning to the same subject at completely random intervals, unintentionally or even unknowingly, until a gradual immersion occurs over time. In this way I began reading Sartre in high school because I was (and remain) obsessed with pandemic literature – of which The Plague is a brilliant example. My introduction to Borges came later via a sous chef in North Carolina who, after coming out to ask how I'd like my ostrich prepared, joined a friend and I for drinks. The discussion turned to books and the next morning I found his card on my windshield. "Ficciones" Borges written on the back. A year or two later Italo Calvino's The Nonexistant Knight & The Cloven Viscount was passed around my circle of friends – though, thinking back, it seems impossible that I hadn't already read If On A Winter's Knight A Traveler. As for Oulipo, I can't remember where I first heard that name. Perhaps Electrico W? Or the Three Percent Podcast? But Surrealism as a literary movement, separate from a visual one, came to my attention through a very specific (and completely unlikely) source – the Japanese author Kawamata Chiaki.
Only in the last month did I start connecting all those books to the French College of 'Pataphysics; a shadowy (and willfully nebulous) institution which came into being at the same time as Surrealism, and would go on to spawn Oulipo.
The Conductor and Other Tales is the one and only book of fiction written by Jean Ferry – a French filmmaker, script doctor and surrealist author whose most lasting literary achievement was his critical analysis of the French literary icon and personality Raymond Roussel.* It is a collection of short stories – some only a few paragraphs in length – dealing with the fears and anxieties that are a basic ingredient in the human psyche. They are the stuff we deal with in nightmares (normal nightmares, not the horror shows of Wes Craven's and George Romero's slumber). Ferry was enmeshed with the Surrealists – exhaustion, sleep and/or dreams are mentioned by almost all his narrators. And the stories, themselves, resemble dreams – or rather, the kinds of puzzles and wordplay which surrealists love and have long represented as dreams. Think of Magritte's The Treachery of Images (aka -"This is not a pipe"). Surrealism, as does everything eventually, becomes a "type" – and these stories by Jean Ferry are of a type. But, in my opinion, they represent the best of that type.
The Conductor, the story for which the collection is named and onto which André Breton lavished praise, deals with a common nightmare scenario. The narrator is a conductor on a train that never stops. Everyone – the passengers, engine crew, attendants – are trapped. There is an unlimited supply of coal and tracks, and enough food so that no one goes hungry. But no one can disembark. Ever. The conductor remembers a time when the train did stops in stations, but that seems to have been a long time ago. He can't recall why or when things changed. He goes on to talk about how he and the passengers have come to accept the situation, the mental adjustments they have made in order to do so. Always the conductor addresses the reader directly – making you feel as if you are sitting beside him in the engine car. As if you, too, are trapped on the train with him. The Conductor bears all the hallmarks of classic Twilight Zone episodes. So much so that I actually researched online whether Ferry had ever written one himself (he had not).
My Aquarium is a strange little story. The aquarium it refers to is filled with little creatures which are the physical embodiment of the narrators's suicidal thoughts. He keeps them imprisoned in a box and feeds them like pets, hoping they will never escape. Like most of the stories in The Conductor and Other Tales, it is short. At under one page, it's an unintentional precursor to flash fiction.
The Society Tiger – perhaps Ferry's most famous short story and one of the earliest to be translated – is the name of the vaudeville act featured in the story. A woman appears in the theater between acts, escorted to her seat by a companion: a tiger dressed in evening clothes and standing erect like a man. The two take their seats in a box visible to the entire audience and the tiger proceeds to perform the affectations of a gentleman. The narrator hates The Society Tiger – for he alone realizes that the beast is always on the edge of breaking his mental restraints and attacking the audience. It is a deeply disturbing story (particularly the ending) that seems to sympathize with the tiger.
You probably noticed a pattern emerging. Many of these stories are structured like jokes: the obvious set-up, a slight misdirection and then the punchline. Some are very funny. Some disturbing. Here, for example, is the entire text of The Chinese Astrologer:
The Chinese Astrologer wears out his years calculating the date of his death. Until dawn each night he amasses signs, figures. He ages, becomes a stranger to his fellows; but his calculations advance. He reaches his goal. Astrology will reveal the date of his death. Then, one morning, the brush falls from his fingers. From loneliness, from fatigue, perhaps from regret, he dies. He had but one sum left to perform.
Allow me to liken the Chinese astrologer to the intellectual who died of exhaustion at a young age for, on top of a draining, harassing, and poorly paid day job, he put his every spare moment toward preparing a monumental and definitive critical edition of Lefargue's The Right to Be Lazy.
Edward Gauvin's translation is wonderful – written in a way which is chatty, informal and friendly. He's kept the prose contemporary in tone, though some of the ideas and stereotypes Ferry puts forward are dated. The narrators are all storytellers and Gauvin has achieve the effect of making us feel as if we are listening to, instead of reading, the stories. He seems to be very familiar with Ferry and his fellows – not only contributing a translator's note to the edition, but publishing numerous online articles here and here. Oh, and remember this?
I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that the physical book, itself, is charming. Wakefield Press (based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and not affiliated, to my knowledge, with the Australian publisher of the same name) is a small, independent publishing house that understands the value of a well-made product. Their books are relatively small (4-1/2″ x 7″) paperback editions with tastefully subdued covers and details such as french flaps, patterned endpapers, black & white illustrations (in the case of The Conductor and Other Tales drawn by Claude Ballaré) and beautiful formatting. Objects to be coveted by any self-respecting bibliophiles. And Wakefield seems to specialize in books by members/friends of the College of 'Pataphysics. I recently bought both Perec's An Attempt At Exhausting a Place In Paris and A Handbook for the Perfect Adventurer by Pierre Mac Orlan. I've been meaning to read something by Perec for ages – he was a character in Chiaki's novel. Mac Orlan I've never heard of, but I'm almost finished with his book. Needless to say, it is wonderful.
Publisher: Wakefield Press, Cambridge (2014)
*It speaks volumes that most of my readers are at this point in the post thinking – who is Raymond Roussel? You will not find that answer here. I recommend trying here.
This Is the Garden by Giulio Mozzi, translated from Italian by Elizabeth Harris
March 3, 2014 § 2 Comments
This Is the Garden opens with an excerpt from a poem by Claudio Damiani –
This is the garden; when you look it's far
too bright and burns your eyes
and so you turn away, although you know
that everything is real, everything you see
is real, and through time life unwinds
and is complete . . .
Those words sum up this collection of short stories by Giulio Mozzi. Some are very good, some less so. All involve the reader in situations that are uncomfortable (almost painful): a letter from a thief to the woman whose purse he's stolen; an author at a book signing addressing the audience; an apprentice who dreams of being promoted. Stories that create the kind of emotional response that takes the reader to a place they don't necessarily want to be are the kinds of stories I'm usually drawn to. But this collection had me feeling look-warm. Not excited. Not disappointed. I kept waiting to be moved and wasn't.
Yet, there is still a lot left to admire.
The Apprentice puts us in the head of a young apprentice who wants nothing more than to be promoted from running errands to working on the factory floor. He's incredibly earnest and intelligent, character traits that separate him from the men he aspires to join. From the very first paragraph we know what the boy doesn't, for the simple reason that we possess the life experience he doesn't. And Mozzi's ability to impart that time of life when naivety is transitioning into a faltering understanding of how the world operates is special. He nails it. Too often young narrators are really only adults looking back on their younger selves. But Mozzi's apprentice is grounded firmly in the moment.
F. is firmly grounded in its protagonist's present, following the final hours of a magistrate in witness protection. His keeper has arranged a meeting with the beloved magistrate's wife (also under witness protection, but inexplicably kept in a separate location from her husband). The crime and threats and reasons for the couple's voluntarily separation only lightly touched on. Instead F. focuses on the magistrate's daily reality, detailing his day almost second-by-second, up until the very last second of the magistrate's life.
Another favorite is Glass. The story is only a few pages long – the shortest in the collection. In that short space you get the sense of a troubled man finding his way back from something – again, never specified – which has unbalanced his life. He meticulously describes his yard to the reader: repairs done to the porch; the wall shared with a neighbor.
I especially like the dividing wall between our yard and the neighbor's to the right. It's just a dividing wall, and that's probably why it was thrown up without much thought, back when they build the house, after the war. It must have been a brownish-orange once, like the house, but the paint seeped into the mortar, leaving only some dirty-gray stains and a touch of blue. The sun never hits the wall: it's damp, blotchy, shaded and streaked with dark-green and silver moss. In some places, you can see swellings, blisters – popped blisters. In other places, the mortar's flaking off or crumbling. The layer beneath is yellowish, dusty. Years ago, the wall was covered in Virginia creeper…
… and so on. The glass of the title is a metaphor and the overall effect of that, and this compulsive cataloguing by the narrator, is haunting.
A borderline OCD attention to detail, creation of lists and step-by-step reenactments of events appear in all of Mozzi's stories. If This Is a Garden were a painting it would fall within the purview of the hyper-realists.
These eight stories are evenly divided between first and third person narrators. But those told from the third person perspective are more intimate and those were the stories that drew me in. When I stop to think about it, it makes more sense that a third person, omnipotent, narrator would feel more honest and objective. All first person narrators are unreliable by definition. They channel the world through a single, biased perspective; describing it as they believe it to be. A third person narrator presents it as it exists in the author's/creator's mind. And maybe that is another reason I preferred the latter examples. Because the third person more accurately represents Mozzi's prose, his writer-ly voice when he's not attempting to inhabit a character. And it provides the translator, Elizabeth Harris, with greater artistic freedom. The happy result is passages such as this: 'The boys spent a long time talking about this silent answer, what it could mean. Some boys started belittling Yanez, almost mocked him. Suddenly his race mattered. Others said, "The Tiger's Claw has broken," and they were sad. It took a few years – time for the village boys to become village men – before most of them realized what Yanez's answer meant.'
Publisher: Open Letter, Rochester (2014)
Two Short Works of Non-Fiction by Readux Books
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Whether or not you subscribe to the theory that the digital age is creating an ADD society (there was a great article about this last month in The Guardian) time is at a premium in today's world and there's no arguing the attractions of shorter fiction. Earlier this year I ran a series of posts featuring bloggers discussing why they love – or hate – short stories. Novellas are also growing in popularity. Readux Books, the new publisher based in Berlin, has hit the sweet spot somewhere between the two with the release of their first collection of books this past October.
A lot of care has obviously gone into the making and launching these books. Each is approximately 5,000 to 10,000 words – a length Readux feels is in keeping with "reading habits in the digital era, without room for slack, but that is long enough to allow complex themes to be developed." The gorgeous, brightly colored paperback covers referencing the German Expressionists. The writing is experimental – of the four books, three are translations – yet accessible. Readux has obviously made clever choices and taken some calculated chances in the planning stages. And while each of the four books is sold individually, they share common themes, ideas and a consistent packaging that had me coveting them for my bookshelves. This careful curating reminds me of some of my favorite independent publishers: New Directions, Open Letter and Other Press.
The two non-fiction titles are memoirs about life in Berlin, written from two different periods in the city's history. Yet, the Berlin described appears remarkably unchanged despite an 85 year gap in the timeline. The changes in writing styles are much more drastic. Franz Hessel's In Berlin: Day and Night in 1929 lacks the post-modern trappings of City of Rumor: The Compulsion to Write About Berlin (written by Gideon Lewis-Kraus in 2013). The former is a period piece that is similar to Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories. Not surprising, as both he and Hessel lived in Berlin at the same time. It's not unthinkable that they would even have traveled in the same circles.
Hessel was a Jewish editor, author and translator. He was a member of the German artist community. His complicated marriage to the journalist Helen Grund inspired Henri Pierre Roche's novel Jules et Jim (which, in turn, inspired the 1962 François Truffaut film of the same name). Eventually, he would flee Germany for France and he and his son would be sent to an internment camp. He died in 1941, the same year he was released from the camp.
But here Hessel is writing about the heady days before the tragedy of WWII. His descriptions of Berlin and its citizens are frenzied and entertaining. In Berlin is an all too brief excerpt of what I believe must have been a longer piece in which we readers get to follow Hessel and his companions as they drift between cabarets, parties and clubs. We meet the German equivalent of Flappers and get a taste of the sexually progressive atmosphere that permeated the city at that time. The sharp, witty prose style is characteristic of Lois Long's column for the New Yorker during the same period.
… Gert and Maria deliberate on what else we could undertake to do. "Why don't you young people go upstairs and dance?" I ask. "I don't want to," says Maria, "but maybe Gert would find some companionship in the Blaue Salon." "Actually I was supposed to stop in to Ambassadeurs today at midnight."" In my inexperience, I am informed that this is the newest extension of the Barberina. Gert and Maria then discuss the quality of the various jazz bands and tango groups in the big hotels, in the Palais am Zoo, in the Valencia, etc. I somewhat timidly introduce my experiences from the little Silhoette. "why don't we just go across the way here to Eldorado? That's where the real bedlam's at. You're all for chaos, smoking and sport jackets, transvestites, little girls, and great ladies, aren't you? Of course you're more for what's proper, Gert, you want elegant dancing and limits, you want to go to Königin." But in the end we decide on something completely different.
In contrast, City of Rumor by Gideon Lewis-Kraus spends less time writing about Berlin, the city, and more on his conflicted emotions regarding it. He is a modern-day expatriate. Lewis-Kraus is an American journalist whose work has appeared in Harper's, GQ, The New York Times Magazine and the London Review of Books. His writing is as beautiful as Hessel's, but also more fraught. The modern Berlin he describes is still a frenetic party scene, but seems less innocent and more world-weary. The essay, itself, reads much more self-indulgent; the main conflict being internalized. Berlin assumes the secondary role, stripped of its unique character and becoming interchangeable with cities like Brooklyn, London or L.A. "Hipster" is a word that comes to mind. "Angst" is another. Of course, the subtitle is "The Compulsion to Write About Berlin", – so you could say that Lewis-Kraus has delivered on what was advertised.
The chapter about Berlin, like the lives of man of the people I knew in Berlin, had no such constraint – no relevant chronology, no narrative necessity. When I sat down to write about Berlin for the first time, all I could do was make a list of anecdotes, the ones that had lingered with me for some reason, in no particular order. I wrote them out as a series of disordered episodes – the time we followed the votive candles to the rave in the toolshed in the middle of the park, the time our friend held a real art opening outside a fake art opening – and saw little use or accuracy in connecting them. After all, they had only ever felt associatively connected in the first place. They had, or course, happened in one particular order, though as far as I could tell they might very well have happened in any other order, or no order at all.
Side-by-side these essays seem not about Berlin but instead about two generations of young urbanites. That contrast between authors is what I found most interesting. Individually they're entertaining reads – but considered together they have the potential to spark a larger conversation about historical, cultural and literary changes.
The two fiction titles are Fantasy by Malte Persson, translated from Swedish by Saskia Vogel and The Marvel of Biographical Bookkeeping by Francis Nenik, translated from German by Katy Derbyshire.
Publisher: Readux Books, Berlin
In Berlin: Day and Night in 1929
City of Rumor: The Compulsion to Write About Berlin


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JOHOR BARU: For the 10th year, Tunku Mahkota Johor Tunku Ibrahim Ismail Sultan Iskandar will lead the Kembara Mahkota Johor.
An entourage of 30 high-powered motorcycles, four-wheel-drives and cars will accompany Tunku Ibrahim during his visit to districts in the state.
State secretary Datuk Abd Latiff Yusof said the tour would begin on July 24 from the Bangunan Sultan Ibrahim and end at Hutan Bandar Putra in Kulai Jaya on July 27.
Among the dignitaries expected to participate are Mentri Besar Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman and Minister in the Prime Ministers Department Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.
We expect to travel 910km throughout the state, he said in his speech yesterday before the launching of the Kembara logo by Tunku Ibrahim.
Abd Latiff said state government departments and agency directors would also take part in the tour.
He said the tour's aim was to meet and distribute aid to the people while taking part in community activities.
Among the expected destinations are Bandar Baru Pontian, Maktab Teknik PDRM, Muar, Kampung Sagil, Tangkak, Labis and Bandar Kluang, Simpang Renggam and Felda Endau.
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Frances Bean Cobain was seen last week, along with dozens of other celebs, walking hand-in-hand at Coachella with her fiancé Isaiah Silva.
The 21-year-old daughter of Courtney Love and the late Kurt Cobain was absent last week from Nirvana's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but managed to make it to the California-based festival on April 10.
Standing out from the flower headbands and short shorts, Cobain and Silva wore layers of clothes with Cobain in an oversized tee shirt and leggings, The Daily Mail reports.
Last week, Love and the remaining members of the Seattle grunge band reunited to accept Nirvana's induction. Love and Cobain's daughter didn't make it due to illness, reports NME.
But we can definitely see the resemblance of mini Cobain to her father with her grungy dark look and shoulder length blonde hair.
Other celebs spotted at Coachella were Fergie, Paris and Nicky Hilton, Selena Gomez, Kyle and Kendall Jenner, and Jared Leto.


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T.J. Warren: The best player you've never heard of
Jun 26, 2014 at 12:14a ET
He was the ACC Player of the Year, and set multiple scoring records at NC State, a school that produced the likes of David Thompson and Rodney Monroe. He joined a select group of just three players who led the ACC in both scoring and field-goal percentage.
And after a four-point game against Virginia on January 15, he would not score fewer than 20 points the rest of the season. He hit the 30-point mark four times and the 40-point mark twice, averaging nearly 25 points a game on the year and getting better and better even as teams had more and more time to prepare to face him.
Yet when NBA Commissioner Adam Silver calls his name tonight -- which he likely will in the first 10-15 picks of the NBA Draft -- there are far too many basketball fans across the country who will say, 'Who?'
His name, of course, is T.J. Warren.
And once you've seen him play a time or two, you won't forget it.
Former NC State standout Julius Hodge remembers when he first met the 6-foot-9 expressionless forward.
Hodge -- who had already graduated from college by then and was playing professionally -- was back in town and went over to a local high school to play some 5-on-5. He knew he'd be able to score at will against the Raleigh-area high schoolers. And he did.
"But there was this young guy on the opposing team and he just kept scoring," Hodge said. "No matter what I was trying to do, he would always find a way to score -- a lot. He just kept knocking down shots.
"I was like, 'What the hell?'"
Of course, it was Warren.
Flying under the radar, though, is nothing new for him.
Warren's freshman season at NC State in 2012-13 featured him as a de facto fifth option amongst a group that included C.J. Leslie, Lorenzo Brown and Richard Howell. But he was able to provide a scoring spark and shot over 62 percent from the floor, averaging 12.1 points.
The Wolfpack was a preseason top-10 team, though, and it had a disappointing finish. Warren's excellent season was lost in the shuffle, and many of his teammates either graduated or went pro. Well, Options 1-4 did. Leaving Warren to move up to Option 1.
It seems silly in hindsight, but the biggest question entering Warren's prolific sophomore season was if he'd be ready to carry that kind of a load, particularly when he was the focus of opposing defenses.
"He had a really nice freshman year. He had some really good moments. But I don't think anyone expected him to have the kind of year he had his sophomore year and become one of the greatest scorers that I've seen in 25 years," former NC State point guard Chris Corchiani said.
The best way to carry the team for Warren, as it turns out, was by lightening his own burden.
To weigh 240 pounds at 6-9 is not that bad. But Warren is naturally leaner, and he wasn't carrying the weight the way he needed to. A gym rat by nature, Hodge said Warren spent the summer of 2013 doing individual skill work and then right after, he would ride the exercise bike for an hour.
"It was almost instant -- within a month, month and a half, he had a completely different body," Hodge said.
Leaner and quicker at 218 pounds, Warren was ready. He got there mentally, too, as some former NC State players -- including his father Tony, who played at NC State before having an NBA career of his own -- counseled him about being more mature.
Corchiani was one who offered Warren advice. He had known Warren since he was a kid, and had watched him grow up. He knew what a big undertaking it was going to be for the shy, soft-spoken basketball phenom to be "the guy".
Warren handled the obstacle the same way he did opposing defenses in the ACC.
He studied it, assessed it, and figured out a way to overcome it.
To call Warren a pure scorer somewhat oversimplifies his skill set, although it's hard not to when he's just so good at it.
"Somebody that didn't see T.J. play as much as I have, you would see a guy averaging 25 points in the ACC and you would think his team is awful and he just shoots the ball a bunch of times and shoots a low percentage," Hodge said. "But T.J. was quite the opposite. He was on a good team in the ACC. He didn't always have to shoot a lot to get his numbers. He shot a really high percentage, and he could score in so many different ways."
Yes, he knows how to score. But his efficiency is not an accident, even though it may have looked that way sometimes last year as he snuck into the paint from the foul line and got one arm up in a tangle around the basket to tip in a teammate's miss.
Or as he drove into the lane, unperturbed by the defense collapsing around him as he softly tossed up a floater that caressed the sides of the rim before it fell through. According to Draft Express, Warren hit 69 percent of his non-floaters at the rim -- the highest percentage in Division I.
"Probably the most impressive thing to me is if you only watched him one time, you wouldn't see this, but he was always in the right place. The ball found him on the court, whether it was just knowing the angles of basketball or knowing where the ball was going to come off the rim," Corchiani said.
"If you watched the game, you'd say, 'Well he got lucky.' No. Throughout the season, that ball just ends up in his hands all the time. That's just a knack for being just a clever player.
"To me, that's just having a very high basketball IQ. He just always got open. You've just got to know where the defense is. You've got to put yourself in the right position. But no, that's just an instinct that he has that's so uncanny. It's amazing to see game after game, he's always in the right place. He knows when to make a cut. He knows when to go to the offensive glass."
Even though Warren was far and away NC State's best player, it wasn't like the Wolfpack necessarily ran a lot of plays specifically for him. But when he got the ball in the flow of the offense, it was fascinating to watch him work.
He wasn't breaking anyone's ankles with his crossover, but he had one -- that, a behind-the-back dribble or a spin move were all he needed to throw his defender off just enough an open lane towards the basket, where he'd either finish at the rim or maybe he'd get his defender leaning one way, then stop and pull up for a mid-range jumper.
Hodge has played plenty of pick-up both with and against Warren since meeting him as a high school sophomore. And he's much happier when Warren is on his team. He'd rather not have to guard him.
"If he doesn't have the ball, you can tend to relax and forget about him. Then he'll cut to the basket and throw up a teardrop or get an open three or an offensive rebound and finish it," Hodge said. "He's really good at getting the ball on the floor 1-2 times and then going into a Euro-step into his tear drop. You just have to always keep an eye on him."
And you'd better keep an eye on him in transition, too. Warren's instincts were as good on the break as they were in the half court, if not better. Few saw the court as well in transition as well as Warren. Whether he was running down to fill a lane or taking it coast-to-coast himself, he rarely made mistakes in that area.
He was often starting the break himself, too. As attached to each other as he and the basketball seemed to be on the offensive end, Warren seemingly couldn't get enough of it on defense either. He developed a knack for either swiping balls away from unsuspecting opponents up top or getting in the passing lane at the exact right moment and taking it the other way for an uncontested slam.
It was practically Warren's patented move on defense, and he was among the league leaders in steals. Entering the draft, that's one of the knocks on Warren.
Hodge doesn't think that's fair, though.
"I think some of the scouts, where they go wrong when it comes to T.J. is the defense," Hodge said. "He plays the (passing) lanes really well off the ball. On the ball, he keeps his guys in front of him. He doesn't take plays off. I think he needs to get better in terms of weak-side defense, but in terms of being on-the-ball defense and getting in passing lanes, he does a really good job of it. So I always thought that was a critique that was a bit false."
Warren's pre-draft buzz has been mostly positive, though. Probably because many around the NBA are discovering just how good Warren actually became this season.
Yes, Warren flew under the radar nationally. But his own shyness contributed to that.
Hodge, who never lacked in the personality department, knew how far that would've gotten Warren, who was always reserved with the media, careful and economical with his words, speaking so softly that reporters often had to huddle around him tightly -- which certain didn't make him any more comfortable.
That's who Warren is, though.
"If he had a bigger personality, he would've caught on nationally quicker than what he did. But that's T.J.," Hodge said. "It's not always about having a huge personality. Sometimes you want the quiet guys that are just going to go to work every day, chop wood and make it happen. He's one of those guys."
As Warren's stats started to get more and more gaudy throughout last season, both Corchiani and Hodge were fielding calls from friends around the country about him.
"I had a number of friends who were like, 'What's this guy, T.J. Warren? What's he about? Is he that good?' I think he flew under the radar. I still think that a large part of the nation that is just an average viewer of college basketball really does't know who T.J. Warren is," Corchiani said.
Hodge got a call from an NBA executive, who wanted to know about Warren's game and asked Hodge if Warren was a "Ryan Gomes type" at the college level.
"You haven't seen him play since last year, huh?" Hodge responded.
He admitted that no, he hadn't.
Hodge told the executive that Hodge was more Paul Pierce than Gomes, and that Warren had to be seen to be believed.
"Once he did, he gave me a call back and he said, 'Julius, you were right'," Hodge said.
Since the scrutiny of Warren increased, inevitably, so did the critiques. But aside from the defense, and him being a "tweener" -- not really a rebounding power forward at 6-9, but maybe not quick enough to guard other NBA small forwards -- the most fascinating is that he's "unconventional".
He is that. His form on his jumper isn't a thing of beauty. Not all of his floaters are artistic, and there were times last year when he forced the issue a bit, even though he didn't have a lot of help. There were entire games when he had half or more of his team's total points.
Hodge said that he not only thinks Warren is NBA-ready -- he also thinks Warren could have come off the bench as a scorer for an NBA team LAST year and been successful.
Corchiani feels pretty confident about Warren's NBA future, too.
"He does one thing that all teams need -- he puts the ball in the basket," Corchiani said. "I just think whoever gets T.J. is going to get a proven scorer for a number of years . I don't know if his potential is as great as some of the guys that are probably going in front of him, but he, to me, is a solid, can't-miss 10-year vet."
And so when his friends asked about Warren, Corchiani's answer was easy.
"I told them he was the greatest player that I have ever seen at NC State in 25 years. Though it was only one year, it was one of the greatest years I've seen any ACC player have in 25 years," Corchiani said. "Teams were putting their best defenders on him, keying on him, and he got it. Never forced it. That was probably the other thing that was so amazing was he always let the game come to him. For a guy to score that many points every game, there were very few forced shots. And you can't say that about a lot of great scorers."
Every now and then, Warren would betray his emotions on the court with a grin or a chest-pound or even a glower at nothing or no one in particular. But more often than not, he was the same -- even-keeled and deliberate, always analyzing the situation in front of him to figure out a way to stay a step ahead.
Moving without the ball isn't "Top-10 Play" material. Neither is a steal and a slam, unless said slam is particularly acrobatic. And so if you haven't heard of Warren before now, that's okay.
You will.
"Towards the end of ACC play, everybody knew who he was," Hodge said. "It will be the same way in the NBA."


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Ingredients1 1/2 lbs. Tomatillos
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In the current study, antigen-independent secretion of IFN-λ by memory CD8+ T cells was demonstrated in mice infected with the intracellular pathogen Salmonella Typhimurium. The response could be detected as soon as 2 hours post-infectionthe NOD-like receptors representing the earliest response to pathogenic invasion. Further, by using strains of S. Typhimurium deficient in flaggelin, the group showed impaired IFN-λ secretion by CD8+ T cells.
Intriguingly, the group also found a robust IFN-λ response when dendritic cells were presented with heat-killed S. Typhimurium or even with the injection of purified flaggelin alonepowerful evidence that the dendritic cell inflammasome assembled by the NOD-like receptor's sensing of flaggelin was sufficient to induce IFN-λ production in memory CD8+ T cells. This flaggelin-induced response was also demonstrated for two other pathogens: Yersinia and Pseudomonas.
The study also confirmed the hypothesis that production of IL-18 in dendritic cells, following inflammasome formation, generated the production of IFN-λ by attaching to a specific receptor-adaptor on the memory CD8+ T cells, which the group identified. The authors speculate that a particular inflammasome known as NAIP5 in splenic dendritic cells is responsible for sensing flaggelin and initiating the cascade of events leading to IFN-λ production in CD8+ T cells.
Previous research had suggested a mechanism for S. Typhimurium to transfer flagellin into the cell from the extracellular medium, through the pathogen's specific secretion system. This is considered critical, as many bacteria are non-pathogenic and indeed, important to the host. An inflammasome response to these so-called commensal bacteria could therefore have disastrous consequences, triggering an inappropriate auto-
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Dear Ted:
Can you clarify what you mean by Isabella and Connor Cruise loving the Tomkat life? Do they "hate" Nicole and Keith/love the attention they get being with Cruise and Holmes or are they so firmly entrenched in the ways of Scientology that they are not encouraged to be with their mother?
Dear Great Question:
Let's just put it this way: Isabella and Connor finally noticed the majority of times they had outings with their mom, leagues of paparazzi just happened to be hanging out of every tree branch within sight. How did that happen? No idea myself, but they say kids are more intuitive than adults, right?
Dear Ted:
Just a concern. In your post about whether Sandra Bullock knew all along about Jesse James' reprehensible behavior, you state that JJ should receive worse punishment than an ongoing beating, as suggested by SB in response to the alleged Elin/Tiger incident. I'm alarmed, because this could bring a terrible retaliation on a man who has children in his care. Not everyone knows you aren't being literal. You aren't, right? You do have power, and though many are deeply angry and saddened by JJ's behavior, we shouldn't incite or do violence against anyone or anything.
Dear Pro-Peace:
Thanks for the compliment, M, but, in reality, I don't have that much power (nor do I desire it, contrary to popular belief) and it's a good thing, too. Were it up to me, yes, men—or women, for that matter—who betray their partners so brutally deserve some pretty brutal karma back. And it doesn't have to be the physical kind.
Dear Ted:
What is wrong with Taylor Swift ? Didn't her mother teach her that hanging out with dirty boys like John Mayer will ruin her reputation? Is Ms. Taylor looking to be country's new bad girl to stay relevant?
Dear Concerned:
No notion in Taylor's head is that designing, I assure you. Tay's doing what we all do: gravitate towards the baddie. How long it'll last is entirely up to Swift. What's the matter, Pix, you've never kissed over on the dark side?
Dear Ted:
I totally love Sandy and I hope she will divorce that good-for-nothing douche, but, I have to wonder, with so many skanks coming out saying they cheated with Jesse, are they telling the truth? Or is he trying to pull a Tiger Woods?
Dear Admirably Justice-Minded:
Let's just say it doesn't look good for Jesse. As a rule, once Gloria Allred enters the picture, so, too, does the skank-on-the-stand.
Dear Ted:
Recently I was watching A Knights Tale and it made me start wondering about Heath Ledger, I'm guessing that he had a BV back in the day, is that right? Is it one that is ever talked about anymore?
Dear Ledger Patrol:
It involved both sex and drugs. It'll probably be in the book.
Dear Ted:
Can I just ask, with all the Tiger Woods and now Jesse James mistresses coming forward, what even happened with David Boreanaz' scandal?
Dear No Angel:
Jeez, which one? The babes or the anger?
Dear Ted:
Here we go again. After reading about beautiful Orlando and Miranda fighting on the plane, I have to ask, "Are these two over yet?" They are getting tiresome.
Dear I'll Co-Sign:
Not soon enough for my taste. Yours, too, obviously.
Dear Ted:
Mom of three rescue cats, all four of us love the goss. This may have been asked before: Do you suppose celebs themselves send messages and comment on stories anonymously?
Dear Nice Mommy:
Do stray cats like to hump?
Dear Ted:
Earlier this week, you emphasized that Taylor Swift hasn't "starred" in a Blind Vice. Has she played a supporting role in one? I'm not allowed to have animals here, so I don't have any rescue pets to pimp, but I've been reading you for years. Surely that still counts for something?
Dear Best Q. O' the Day:
And how. I think this is one reason why TS has gone danger-sniffing 'round the boys, as of late. Babe's tired of watching, not enjoying.
Dear Ted:
Is Roxy Couture and Stud-Bucket LeBeouf actually Sandra Bullock and Jessie James? The BV post had "blind" mentioned several times and I've recently read that Sandra had given advice (through an interview) to Elin regarding Tiger Woods.
Dear Unblinded:
Darling, I'm obvious, sometimes, but, I never write clues in neon. Nope, though as perfect as an answer that may appear to be, Sandy's just not into skanky like her husband is.
Dear Ted:
You said that Reese and Jake's relationship ended quicker than expected, but who expected it to last longer? Can you elaborate for us?
Dear Nice Guys Get Screwed:
It was Jake. He was pretty impressed with how Reese changed things around (on her own accord). I wasn't!
Dear Ted:
First time writing in, long time reader! Has Alex Skarsgård ever been a Blind Vice?
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Jan 25 2013, 11:18am CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
Kolkata, Jan 25 — "Pained" over the continuous controversy over the death of her father, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's daughter Anita Pfaff Friday said secret government files on the freedom fighter should be declassified.
Talking about her father, Pfaff said: "My father perhaps was over optimistic in thinking that independence alone would solve India's problems."
"My father's life in many ways was rather mysterious and it is not so surprising that people give their own interpretations on it. I may not obviously like them, particularly about his death. I am pained at times," Pfaff told media persons on the sidelines of a programme here.
She also said that secret government documents on Netaji should be declassified.
"Such documents should be declassified unless there is any danger. But after so many years, I don't think there can be any danger in making the documents public. I cannot envisage why they cannot be declassified," she said.
Pfaff also hailed Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's announcement to erect a monument in Netaji's memory at his ancestral house in South 24-Parganas district's Kodalia, which has raised a controversy.
She expressed surprise over this.
"I think that (erecting the monument) would be a very nice step. I am more in favour of monuments than just erecting statues. I cannot think why there should be a controversy over erecting a monument," said Pfaff.
Soon after Banerjee announced the proposal to erect the monument, Forward Bloc - a party founded by Bose - objected to the proposal, saying the party would not allow such a move as "there is no evidence or proof that Netaji has died."
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Tom - I work (I teach) so it'll have to be on the weekends.
Wait - maybe we should take this to a new thread, out of the "introduce yourself" thread.
"I can do it. I will do it."
Tom - I work (I teach) so it'll have to be on the weekends.
Wait - maybe we should take this to a new thread, out of the "introduce yourself" thread.
"I can do it. I will do it."
Hi guys, been a member of CK since Sep 10th, and just realized I should introduce myself.
My name is Brian, or my friends call me Big Daddy, maybe in 2 years you can call me Skinny Daddy. I use to be a soda (pop) drinker, but now, I try to drink mostly water. I have been married for 17 lovely years, and have 4 wonderful children ages 6-13. When I got married my weight was 210 lb, and when I started the CK program I was 392 lb. Since I have been on the diet I have lost 16 lbs in 2 weeks.
We all have a long journey a head of us. Lets keep motivating one another, pushing to lose that 1 extra pound, and to walk that extra mile.
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Hi Brian. So sorry I missed replying to your post sooner. I've got a lot of 'stuff' going on right now. (Illness in the family, I'm doing invalid care.)
Welcome, welcome. Wow, your starting weight is familiar to me - my all-time high was 394. Been there, done that. Not gonna go back.
What are you doing for exercise? I'll pop over to your personal page and see if I can see what you're eating. In case you didn't know, you can adjust those settings. Some people prefer to keep the information private, others of us like to have everything public so people can compare notes and offer suggestions.
Again, welcome and glad to have you aboard.
"I can do it. I will do it."
Hi, I'm a 60 year old female........I've been fat all of my life. The earliest picture I have is of me in diapers, sitting on the lawn, like a little Buddha.
I was able to lose weight easier when I smoked and drank coffee, but I had to give both of them up for other health reasons. Then I went through menopause and it was like hitting a brick wall. Now it takes a LOT more energy to lose less weight. But I can't give in because I know it will be the end if I do.
So here I am. I joined in January and didn't lose anything until June. Then I lost 10 pounds but hurt my back and had to take 6 weeks off from even walking. So I lost my mojo. Now it's October. I have kept 8 of the 10 pounds off but am struggling to lose more.
I know I have to start moving around. It's that simple. I don't overeat. I under move.
So here I am. BTW.......I weigh 251.5. My heaviest has been 261.5. Otherwise my health is pretty good. I'm not on any meds but my blood sugars run around 119. I know I'm borderline and this had better be as close as I ever get to being diabetic..
Time for a change. Time to start moving.........like it or not. I better learn to love it!
May we all be filled with sisu - the tenacity to keep fighting the good fight!
Hi Ev. You used to have a different icon, yes? I recognize your name, but not the new photo. You're just now joining the 100+ group? Welcome. It's nice here.
Mojo can wax a wane. That's okay. Significant changes can be made. You don't have to be perfect, you just have to get yourself to where you want to be. We'll help.
"I can do it. I will do it."
Hi, my name is Maryellen. I'm 53 years old, married for 35 years. I have a 34 years old son, and a grandson who's seven. I'm very blessed!
I've struggled with weight all my life, but I've been over 100lbs overweight for a few years now. I use food to comfort me and fill emotional needs. I've also struggled with depression a good part of my adult life.
I've tried everything and realized in September that I am helpless when it comes time to food, I have no willpower, no control! I went into a treatment center for six short days when my ins. Ran out. It was long enough for me to realize I was desperate for a change, I was at my bottom and I didn't want to live like this anymore. I've been a prisoner in my own body!
I joined OA, I now go to three meetings a week and am so thankful that I don't have to try anymore to control my eating. I do however need to have a food plan, and stick to it daily.
In the past I rebelled against tracking or counting calories. I now find it freeing to preplan my next day and know ahead of time what I'm going to eat. It's still a struggle, I miss and mourn sugar and white flour as I abstain from it, but this site is so helpful and it makes my plan so much easier to work out, and stick to.
I hope to connect with some of you as this will be a lifetime journey for me and isolation needs to be a thing of my past!
Thank you...
Hey there big daddy, welcome! I thought it was neat you said you've been married 17 lovely years! Congrats... I'm proud of you for embarking on this journey! Being happily married with four kids makes it so special that you are taking care of yourself so you'll be happy & healthy as your children grow up! Keep up the great work!
Hi Toni, thanks for the welcome! I'm excited about being here. Had a busy day today so I'm just now checking in. :-)
Likewise, I'm hyper-busy these days also. Arg. It's not nice, being so busy.
"I can do it. I will do it."
Hello, hoping you all had a good day. I just got home... Tired but wound up. Having my planned nighttime snack. Just came from a meeting where there was food. Someone made their "famous homemade fudge" I didn't even look at the food table until the meeting was over. I was helping to clean up. It amazed me that there was fudge even left. No ne wanted to take it home either. In the past I would have taken it in a heartbeat. Then I would have eaten it all before bed, I'd be sick but it would have been so comforting going down. I miss that, using food for comfort. I'm thankful that I'm not sitting here eating compulsively though and that instead I'm checking in to see how you all did today. :-)
Reposted from 11/05 thread - sorry I only noticed this introduction thread now:
Hi Suz, hi all,
I would really like to join this group. I became a member probably two years ago but never really committed to the program. Now three weeks ago, I decided to give it another try.
Somehow, I seem to be in a better frame of mind and things have been going pretty well: without majorly painful changes, I have managed to drop nine pounds in that time, mainly by cutting out sugar and walking the dogs every day... Most of all, my heartburn is gone so I sleep much better than before; several people have commented on that - "you look so rested"! So in other words, the start has been very encouraging.
But, I have also finally accepted that this is a process that will take years and must lead to permanent change. And that it's very hard to do this all by myself. Having some comrades and some fun on the way should be very helpful!
With best wishes,
Hello! My name is Diane, I need to lose ALOT of weight. I am married with have two boys, the youngest almost grown, and a 3 year old grand daughter. In 25 years I have gained this weight slowly and never tried to lose it. This is my first reall attempt.
Hello Diane. Welcome to the 100+ group.
I am *so sorry* that no one was here to greet you, before this. The activity in this group waxes and wanes a bit. I've been having a bad time of it ("it" being controlling my weight, work stress, and multiple family members sick) and so I haven't been posting much recently.
It's been several weeks since you joined the group. How are you doing? How do you like CK?
"I can do it. I will do it."
Hello everyone, I'm new here and blogging is also new to me so if I make a mess of this, or do a major breach of blogging protocol, forgive me. Seems the dates on these posts are really old. Maybe I'm writing to an empty room.
I am a retired RN and am seriously overweight. (that's me being kind to myself - 382 is more than seriously overweight - it's obscene). I am praying that I can stick to this effort and could really use a buddy or two. Hope to hear from someone
Hi - I'm Edna....been up and down in weight all my life. I have well over 100 lbs to lose. Since joining CK on July 29, I have lost 58 lbs. I eat up to my calorie limit. I have diabetes and chronic kidney disease so I have to limit carbs and proteins so some days it is hard to reach the limit and not eat more carbs and protein than I am allowed. That basically leaves fat for me to eat and I refuse to eat Crisco just to meet my goal...lol.
I can already tell the difference in the lost weight. I can walk a little further without gasping for breath like a fish out of water - I still breathe hard, but not as long or as hard. I look forward to seeing others write in this group.
More salad!
Hi. I'm unclear on how the posts work so sorry if I posted off the road somewhere yesterday. I thought I was on a thread, not starting one. The 100+ Forum home page shows only your first post, but none of the responses to that post (which I had to look for within your own thread). So anyways, I'm glad to discover this thread is so vital and busy and helpful. I would have posted here in the first place. But since I'm under way I guess I will leave my thread open too. I'm trying to lose a hundred pounds, mostly because of the joint pain while walking. Getting pretty rough. Plus I'm fatigued really bad, even when I first awaken. Plus I know my weight invites trouble from my diabetes, like many of you mention having. Well, best wishes.


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