June 2010
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Need more input!
Giving the 20 books in 6 months another shot, but unlike last time I’ll pick the books a few at a time as I go. This way I can swap in new books as I come across them and! maybe the reading won’t feel like a chore 2 months in. (: First batch: Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Steig Larsson The 2nd series I’ve seen the first movie of prior to...
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Listen Location: Ballard Farmer’s Market Time:...
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morgenstern: Live map of London Underground trains incredible! and maybe useful That is so cool! (Reminds me of One Bus Away—my favorite app after Orbital :P)
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“It’s very pretty,” a statement that is to art as using...”
– Renée, p. 199 The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery Hee.
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telemachy: “Every object, however near the eye, has something about it which you cannot see, and which brings the mystery of distance even into every part and portion of what we suppose ourselves to see most distinctly.” from Modern Painters I, John Ruskin 20 minutes later, I came across the following in The Elegance of the Hedgehog: Some people are incapable of perceiving in the object of...
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  Friday afternoon, Wallingford (full size)
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Walking on Eggshells: Borrowing Culture in the... →
Let it queue up, take 24 minutes, and watch it. (via Mark)
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“Okay, I know all those words, but in that order, they make my head fizz.”
– Sars responding Stephen King’s comparison of AC/DC and…William Faulkner in Anti-Word Of The Day: “rave-up”. Hee.
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Ha! “Psychosomatic” was coined by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. That seems…apropos. (Found out in The Age of Wonder, Richard Holmes)
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“The explicit and implicit messages, though, occupied the slippery slope between...”
– p. 344, Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer, Fred Kaplan I like the look of the word “realpolitik” The wildly different perception and proposed treatment of slaves vs. Indians (put down mostly to Lincoln’s personal/familial history and participation in wars with the Indians) is...
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Of course you can't trust him--he's narrating →
Moby Dick is one of those books: everyone says they know the story and quotes the opening line endlessly, but I think few have actually read and how did I get all the way through college without having had to read it… Sillier: I own a copy! It’s right there, sandwiched between Dante and The Greek Myths; heh. But I think with the Infinite Zombies entries as companion, it would be worth the...
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