One interesting thing about Aubrey is that he developed a great love for mathematics which he did not have in his early career...macdoc wrote: ↑Wed Nov 16, 2022 1:38 amDr Maturin Irish/Catalan speaking toAubrey ...a somewhat less than sterling English post Capitain and Dr Maturins great friend
So the Irish have a writing of their own? I had no idea.'
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Maturin
Certainly they have a writing of their own. They had it long before your ancestors left their dim Teutonic wood; and indeed it was the Irish first taught the English the ABC, though with indifferent success, I freely admit. Yet this is a very handsome letter, so it is.'
O'Brian makes me laugh all the time....Maturin is both a secret agent of the crown and a celebrated naturalist and dresses like a century relevant nerd. Aubrey knows little of the high circles in intelligence and science the Dr moves in
Such a brilliant conceit to pair them up and then bond them with music....
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Can see that being needed for navigation depiction. Hard to beleive early 747s had a navigators seat and a port above for them to take star shots when over oceans.
Oh Aubrey or Obrian??
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I added the de rigueur translation of Heiddegger's Being and Time to my Kindle, but I haven't been doing much reading of late. Now that my mind is more at ease, I'll likely turn to reading to pass the time when I donate plasma and riding on the bus to and fro.
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Did a bit of a survey of the Kahneman book above and put it aside. I am reading a book on the Finnish language that I got as a physical book. It is by a linguist, an essay in book form. Will then review it.
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Read another essay from the Android Epistemology book. Thinking about thinking by considering the limits or challenges of AI is always fun.
Imagine that. I guess it's only coincidental that you'd already be the perfect citizen in the ideal world you're selling.
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Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World (amazon)
Jesus! Fucking everything is an ecology!
Jesus! Fucking everything is an ecology!
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I'm sort of reading Ursula K. Le Guin's Left Hand Of Darkness. A local book club is discussing it on December 10.
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The Left Hand of Darkness was a very interesting book, quite radical for the SF of previous times, challenging gender roles as it did...
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This was a very interesting read on a variety of fronts.
I gave my full set to a another rider.
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Listening to The Autobiography of Malcolm X on Audible this morning. It's fantastic!
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Chaucer is effing dated, I don't think I could read it in the original, or, if able, enjoy it, not because it's bad, but because I'd have to think so much to just understand it that I could not receive the story enjoyably
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People who've become classics in their genre, from people who are too lazy to actually read their work.macdoc wrote: ↑Thu Oct 13, 2022 6:55 pmNew author to chase.https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011 ... n-acocellaCrime Pays
The dilemma of Georges Simenon.
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who gets accolades like this .??!!!and he claims to have bedded 10,000 women ...Praise for Georges Simenon:
“One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories.” —The Guardian
“These Maigret books are as timeless as Paris itself.” —The Washington Post
“Maigret ranks with Holmes and Poirot in the pantheon of fictional detective immortals.” —People
“I love reading Simenon. He makes me think of Chekhov.” —William Faulkner
“The greatest of all, the most genuine novelist we have had in literature.” —André Gide
“A supreme writer . . . Unforgettable vividness.” —The Independent (London)
“Superb . . . The most addictive of writers . . . A unique teller of tales.” —The Observer (London)
“Compelling, remorseless, brilliant.” —John Gray
“A truly wonderful writer . . . Marvelously readable—lucid, simple, absolutely in tune with the world he creates.” —Muriel Spark
“A novelist who entered his fictional world as if he were a part of it.”lle —Peter Ackroyd
“Extraordinary masterpieces of the twentieth century.” —John Banville
About the Author
Georges Simenon was born in Liège, Belgium, in 1903. He is best know in Britain as the author of the Maigret novels and his prolific output of over 400 novels and short stories have made him a household name in continental Europe. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.
I might just abandon O'Brian for a while as I've read all his previously for a few Maigret novels as they appear to be quick reads.
What he doesn't mention is that most of the women he bedded were prostitutes.
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OK people, those of you who read and enjoyed books about the time of square sails (O'Brian and whoever else)
Would you mind selling me on some of the best? I've had so much Lovecraftian horror recently I'm ready for something totally different to metaphorically clear my palate.
Would you mind selling me on some of the best? I've had so much Lovecraftian horror recently I'm ready for something totally different to metaphorically clear my palate.
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The late and regretted Ursula Le >Guin, or am I mixing things up?
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