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by JimC » Wed Jul 28, 2010 5:18 am
Charlou wrote:Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha .. found in a sh bookshop in Hahndorf
That brings back memories - read that ages ago, along with "
The glass bead game"...
Great author, and even if the books have aspects of woo, it is subtle, understated and a very humanistic form of woo...
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
And my gin!
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by Faithfree » Sun Aug 08, 2010 3:11 pm
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by Robert_S » Sun Aug 08, 2010 4:15 pm
JimC wrote:Charlou wrote:Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha .. found in a sh bookshop in Hahndorf
That brings back memories - read that ages ago, along with "
The glass bead game"...
Great author, and even if the books have aspects of woo, it is subtle, understated and a very humanistic form of woo...
"We create gods and then we wrestle with them"
Damien
Herman Hesse
That quote, along with most of the rest of the book, did me a world of good a long time ago.
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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by Feral_Punctuation » Wed Aug 11, 2010 6:58 pm
Interesting.
Post count +1
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by Jay G » Wed Aug 11, 2010 7:16 pm
Lyrical and Critical Essays by Albert Camus
"Their two is not the real two, their four is not the real four"
"Reason is the Devil's whore"
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by Pappa » Tue Aug 17, 2010 7:46 am
J. B. S. Haldane - Science and Everyday Life (Price Five Shillings)
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by tattuchu » Tue Aug 17, 2010 1:48 pm
Pappa wrote:J. B. S. Haldane - Science and Everyday Life (Price Five Shillings) Percy Gets Probed by the great American author tattuchu
People think "queue" is just "q" followed by 4 silent letters.
But those letters are not silent.
They're just waiting their turn.
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by Pappa » Tue Aug 17, 2010 1:53 pm
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by Ronja » Fri Aug 20, 2010 7:14 pm
leo-rcc wrote:ebeth wrote:right now i'm re-reading Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and wishing i could carry wikipedia around in my pocket.
...i totally just realized people can do that. except i don't have the money for a phone with internet or an ipod touch or anything.
but still
*mindrape*
"He [Hurling Frootmig, originator of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] also started to develop and explore the role of the editorial lunch-break which was subsequently to play a crucial part in the Guide's history, since it meant that most of the actual work got done by a passing stranger who happened to wander into the empty offices of an afternoon and saw something worth doing."
Sound familiar?
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by klr » Mon Sep 06, 2010 8:09 pm
Just finished it in double-quick time, 'cos it was so good:
http://www.amazon.com/Empires-Sea-Battl ... 0812977645
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by Bella Fortuna » Mon Sep 06, 2010 8:12 pm
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by klr » Mon Sep 06, 2010 8:20 pm
I guess that sums up the difference between our respective reading habits ...
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by Bella Fortuna » Mon Sep 06, 2010 8:25 pm
klr wrote:I guess that sums up the difference between our respective reading habits ...
The gap that can never be bridged....
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by leo-rcc » Mon Sep 06, 2010 8:46 pm
Do audiobooks count?
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by Bella Fortuna » Mon Sep 06, 2010 9:02 pm
leo-rcc wrote:Do audiobooks count?
Sure; I do them as well!
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I will get off my arse and read it. 
