That story, which ought to be a necessary companion piece to "The Poe Shadow," has been immensely influential over time but makes ponderous reading today.
True, Karajan can be a little plump, a little Teutonic; his slow, ponderous reading of Falstaff's characteristic theme after "Va, vecchio John" is an example of a touch that may not be to everyone's taste.
And what was your ponderous mid-teen reading choice?
Five of the poems, read in ponderous voiceover, prompt dances tugged by longing and regret.
For genuinely stylish sadism, stick to Stieg Larsson; for cruelty executed with true cunning, read Jo Nesbo; and if ponderous philosophizing is called for, no one can beat Henning Mankell.
But this is far from being a ponderous book about pondering.
He seemed shy in polished social settings, Ruble, the institute's director at the time, said; when he attended the annual dinner, "we literally would write his remarks, and he would read them in a very ponderous way.
The current crop includes Kishwar Desai's 'Witness The Night', which won the Costa first novel prize; George Eliot's 'Daniel Deronda', which I'm re-reading skipping most of the ponderous faith/Jewish culture bits; and Colin Thubron's 'A Mountain in Tibet' – he's such a writer, and my late pa got halfway to Lhasa from Delhi in 1944, when he hadn't enough wartime leave to come home in.
(Remember Harry in that swastika armband?) Pippa, real name Philippa, is the second of the three Middleton children (the youngest, James, was the one who read from the Bible in such ponderous Pinterian tones during the wedding service).
Donald Norman, a professor at Northwestern University and an expert on design and engineering, said that while E Ink's technology was well suited for reading long books, "it is too slow and ponderous" for reference works, multimedia and any tablet device that seeks to connect to a wide range of entertainment.
