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Post by kungfuzu on Dec 29, 2021 13:30:39 GMT -8
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Post by Brad Nelson on Dec 29, 2021 13:44:56 GMT -8
Did Vienna take much bombing during the war?
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Post by kungfuzu on Dec 29, 2021 13:48:50 GMT -8
I knew that it did get bombed a fair bit. Think of some of the scenes in "The Third Man." But to be sure of the extent I double checked. Vienna bombing raids during WWII |
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Post by Brad Nelson on Dec 29, 2021 13:55:43 GMT -8
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Post by Brad Nelson on Dec 29, 2021 13:59:43 GMT -8
Sounds like Vienna was pretty extensively bombed.
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Post by kungfuzu on Dec 29, 2021 14:05:08 GMT -8
Old Max has been reading our posts. This is something so obvious to me that I figured it out as a teenager/young adult in my early twenties.
Those who seek political power are already damaged and by-in-large could not be described as "good people." Once they get into the system, they are further corrupted and damaged. By the time anyone has worked his way through the system to the top, he is by definition a criminal. He, his cohorts and competitors are all of the same ilk. They all know that they have all committed crimes and it is this knowledge that keeps them in line when necessary. If any one politician's conscience gets too troublesome, he will be reminded of his past crimes and thus muzzled. As I keep saying, "they are all politicians." We should remember what that entails.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Dec 29, 2021 14:09:23 GMT -8
Should be included as an addendum to The Federalist Papers.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Dec 29, 2021 15:35:28 GMT -8
Now that I've read most of the books, I'll watch a bit of Vienna Blood on Amazon Prime. Right off the bat it looks like they didn't bother to read the books because the casting is pretty horrible.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Dec 29, 2021 17:13:33 GMT -8
I finished the short story, The Melancholy Countess. It was pretty good for a short story. And I would say it's more like 1/7 the size of a normal book. It certainly wasn't a long read.
I watched a little more of the first episode of the Amazon Prime series. The two characters are miscast, although Rheinhardt is by far the one most far afield. They've taken the affable, but competent, Rheinhardt and turned him into the edgy Det. Insp. Edmund Reid from Netflix's Ripper Street. I see little resemblance between the book and the series for Rheinhardt.
Although Liebermann is clearly a younger man, his perhaps defining characteristic is that he was born old. He's cockey and confident (and annoyingly so) like a yute. But he also (as does Rheinhardt) exudes refinement and class. The guy they have playing Liebermann in the Amazon Prime series looks more like someone you'd find on the old TV series, Friends, than an acolyte of Sigmund Freud.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Dec 29, 2021 17:18:48 GMT -8
Wonderful fall colors in this one:  |
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Post by kungfuzu on Dec 29, 2021 19:16:14 GMT -8
I have checked it out of the library and will start reading it tonight.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Dec 29, 2021 19:20:12 GMT -8
I can't find A Death in Venice anywhere so, yikes, I may have to buy it for 10 bucks. I am now reading the Kindle sample and it mentioned Cremeschnitte,  And Linzertorte.  |
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Post by kungfuzu on Dec 29, 2021 19:33:44 GMT -8
Believe me, both are excellent! But not a way to lose weight. The pastry of the Cremeschnitte must be fresh and not soggy. This is the French version. I prefer the Austrian one. Mille-feuille |
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Post by Brad Nelson on Dec 29, 2021 20:04:39 GMT -8
I suppose it would be therapeutic just to make these pastries for others. Then again, how many slim pastry chefs have you seen? The appeal of these books is various things. But given the crazy, denuded, polluted, degenerate, corrupted America we live in today, it's nice to live in and around civilized and sophisticated people in a civilized and sophisticated city, although I think even Rheinhardt notes that Vienna is the syphilis Capital of Europe, or something like that. And, of course, there are good and bad parts of 1900 Vienna. But all in all, imagine a place and people who discuss and perform music rather than playing video games or burying their heads in a phone. There's a lot to like about 1900 Vienna. But even so, there is much talk in the book about things coming apart (as we know they did, and perhaps for reasons they couldn't fully foresee). But there seemed to a Golden Age of sorts.
Looks good to me...
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Post by Brad Nelson on Dec 29, 2021 21:20:27 GMT -8
Max is having an apricot version of this right now at The Imperial: Gateau  |
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Post by Brad Nelson on Dec 29, 2021 21:29:25 GMT -8
I'm not even going to bother trying to watch the Amazon Prime series. It's fake. It might as well be based on a different set of books.
In the book, when we first come across Inspector Rheinhardt, we learn that he and Max are already well-acquainted friends. In the series, they instead reach for a cliche: Rheinhardt is the hard-bitten cop who has little time for (and much animosity toward) Liebermann who wants to basically ride around with Rheinhardt and observe. So basically this is a fake series.
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Post by kungfuzu on Dec 30, 2021 8:25:08 GMT -8
I would throw away those little chocolate squiggles and dig in. With a good, black cup of coffee (maybe a half teaspoon of sugar) one would be in heaven, or in close proximity thereof.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Dec 30, 2021 21:08:42 GMT -8
This would be the proper kind of window shopping in Vienna:  |
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Post by artraveler on Dec 31, 2021 4:48:19 GMT -8
I wonder, are Austrians born diabetic ?
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Post by Brad Nelson on Dec 31, 2021 7:55:24 GMT -8
One has to imagine that insulin is taken like mother's milk.
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