Cold Sea Stories
I n November , the diarist Fanny Burney wrote the following about her 6am sea swim: Fast forward two hundred years or so, and our passion for an icy dip shows little sign of having dimmed. It may be January - not exactly the most hospitable month for outdoor exercise - but my Facebook feed is full of people in swimsuits, creeping into biting seas or clambering out of freezing pools, all grinning their heads off. Quite a few are wearing daft hats. Today, our lives are differently circumscribed in most every way; Fanny would have worn more clothes in the water than we do fully dressed. But on the subject of cold swimming , she and I are in total agreement.
As do the growing numbers of people partaking in this most foolish of activities. Cold and outdoor swimming in general are on the rise across the UK. Membership of the Outdoor Swimming Society has rocketed from just in to more than 25, in T ooting Bec Lido in south London has estimated that it has regular winter swimmers, and nearby Brockwell Lido welcomes between 50 - 75 people into the water every day during the colder months. The first Big Chill swim in the Lake District, in , had competitors; by that had risen to a thousand.
And last weekend, 80 people took part in the Great Britain Ice Swimming Championship , swimming 1km in waters zero and 5 degrees Celsius. Organiser Pauline Barker told me that, such was the volume of applicants, they could have filled the event twice over. Who are these people? My Facebook feed shows a mixture of ages, genders, shapes and sizes. The one thing we have in common: M ost cold water swimmers are enthusiastic salespeople for its physical health benefits.
Each chapter consists of at least initial nad final music which I adequatelly call prelude and postlude. I also published internal fragments - interludes, however sometimes they are only few sounds long and last for a while. Thus, the compositions presented here make up the musical study of the audiobook but without textual context.
Start International Polska Sound and mastering: Studio Copyright by Nowa Era www. Which way to the sound Which way to the sound music in the sensor field. Autumn Gardens Autumn Gardens for voice and chamber ensemble. Aequinoctium Aequinoctium for sampler, monoctone and organ. Fantasia Fantasia for alto flute and strings. Concerto for Quintet and 16 Manipulators.
- Feuchten Fußes - Die Fische betreten das Land (Meilensteine der Evolution 1) (German Edition).
- Unconditional.
- Brrr! The joys of cold water swimming.
Antiphona Pneumatica Antiphona Pneumatica for monoctone and organ. Canzone of exalted generators and motors for monoctone and kazoo choir. Overdrive Overdrive for orchestra. Multitouch Piano Multitouch Piano sound sculpture. Hour of Happiness Hour of Happiness commedia dell'arte. Wordworlds Wordworlds 7 polystylistic pieces.
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Symptoms Symptoms for multiplicated double bass, monoctone and actor. So I realised after Google mapping some locations. There are even train and bus routes on them. For yes, they are inhabited. Including by impoverished fisherman, the ghosts of fearsome wreck scavengers and piratical lore: The stories themselves are pretty good but not spectacular - fans of literary short stories could do a lot worse - though I found some of them predictable. The translation was almost too smooth: For me the attraction was hearing about places, history and cultures, and looking up numerous Wikpedia articles.
At the end of the book there is a dialogue between the author and translator which provides background but I loved getting much more detail online. The first two stories were the best, and have stuck in my mind most strongly in the week since I finished the book. Several of the other stories are told from the viewpoints of men around the author's age and get away with bits of stereotyping an American author probably wouldn't especially 'mystical wise men of the Orient' - though sometimes it's unclear whether Huelle is quietly sending himself up, for example in 'The Flight into Egypt', a tale of a painter who is unblocked after seeing news pictures of a beautiful Chechen refugee woman.
It's ambiguous, again, whether its negativity about a party of loud, outrageous, frequently naked gay men trying to celebrate Poland's first gay wedding is the protagonist's or Huelle's. It would be interesting to know how Huelle is viewed in Poland. In the UK he's gained some recognition among readers of translated literature via four long- or short-listings for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, but he's hardly well known.
I get a sense that if the history and geography in which his work is steeped weren't fascinatingly novel and exotic to me, he could perhaps be understood as another of those comfortably established once-radical writers who are overrated and always in the papers, like Ian McEwan in Britain.
Cold Sea Stories by Pawel Huelle – The Literateur
Jun 23, Vera Coberley rated it really liked it. Some themes were repetitive. Jul 08, Anna Ester rated it it was amazing. Breathtaking stories connected through the melancholy, exile in own country, transformation of a well-known place and by a presence of a sea. Every story and every character in it is dealing with something what no more exist. For example the photography in the story Desk, where is again and again underlined the background behind two man - it is crowded harbour in Gdansk, which is now totally abandoned.
Or the story Gute Luisa, which ends with removal of her home. Whole book has a subtext of a his Breathtaking stories connected through the melancholy, exile in own country, transformation of a well-known place and by a presence of a sea. Whole book has a subtext of a historical events.
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People are not straightly affected by occupation, but it is everywhere around them, they cannot just close eyes and forgot, it is still in their presence. They are surviving in a place which is not any more their home, where they can not feel save. Huelle's solution is magic places ending of Ukiel for example.
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Same as a fact of a occupation hang in the air the presence of sea. It is cold, windy, inhospitable like a death. City Gdansk is a main place for some other books such as Chwin's Hanemann or The Tin Drum by Grass and it is really interesting how different can be atmosphere of a same city, especially when Hanemann is set in a same time as a Huelles stories.