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Reading Baldacci' s End Game as a farce on the rich and powerful it may be banned like that TED Talk I posted on madness and psychopathy .. tis hoax-able! Thus false intellect? No Nous is mindless?

Starting Nightingale next for Book Club ...

Wife completed Girl on a Train as a simile to Streetcar of Desire ... deadly a Kathrine of Rush-a ... some don't make the connections ...
 
I just read Winter (author is Christopher Nicholson). It's about the later life and marriage of Thomas Hardy. It was interesting but the author really laid it on thick with the Hardyesque descriptive passages -- to the point where it seems to be mocking. Maybe the point. I'm a Hardy fan and read it all, but was disappointed. No meat.
I'm about to read:

BEHAVE by Robert M. Sapolsky | Kirkus Reviews
 
My vacation reading was:

The Language of God by Francis Collins. A noted geneticist and current director of the NIH in the US gives his take on how science and faith interact, at least in his life and view. As much an apologetic for science as for Christianity, as his goal seems to be as much about selling Christians on science (by rejecting ID and YEC in favour of seeing God in the scientific understanding of existence) as the reverse. This was recommended by monk in this thread and I will eventually make some more comments there.

Fledging by Octavia Butler. An s-f take on vampires that reflects on race, addiction, love, and more. The late Octavia Butler was a powerful and respected s-f writer whose presence as a Black woman in a genre dominated by white males provided a much needed perspective. This novel has a central character who manages to be strong and believable in spite of being, technically at least, not human (Butler's vampires are not human, but are a humanoid species, possibly alien, that lives alongside us and in a symbiotic relationship with certain of us). The story revolves around the destruction of two vampire families, one male and one female (long story), who were using genetic engineering and human DNA to try to overcome their species aversion to sunlight.
 
Just diving into "Seinfeldia - How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything" by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong - received as a Xmas gift. Yup - count me as a big Seinfeld fan in its day. It's interesting to read the background stories of how the series came to be, who the various original characters & story lines were based upon etc etc. etc. I hadn't known that Jason Alexander - George - was actually an accomplished stage actor - winner of a Tony award for best leading actor in a musical (!) at a young age, prior to joining the Seinfeld gang. I'll probably be an even better trivia player when I finish reading!
 
Carolla said:
Just diving into "Seinfeldia - How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything" by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong - received as a Xmas gift. Yup - count me as a big Seinfeld fan in its day. It's interesting to read the background stories of how the series came to be, who the various original characters & story lines were based upon etc etc. etc. I hadn't known that Jason Alexander - George - was actually an accomplished stage actor - winner of a Tony award for best leading actor in a musical (!) at a young age, prior to joining the Seinfeld gang. I'll probably be an even better trivia player when I finish reading!
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Just watched, "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" on Netflix and hosted by Seinfeld......wasn't too impressed.
 
Mendalla said:
My vacation reading was:

The Language of God by Francis Collins. A noted geneticist and current director of the NIH in the US gives his take on how science and faith interact, at least in his life and view. As much an apologetic for science as for Christianity, as his goal seems to be as much about selling Christians on science (by rejecting ID and YEC in favour of seeing God in the scientific understanding of existence) as the reverse. This was recommended by monk in this thread and I will eventually make some more comments there.

Fledging by Octavia Butler. An s-f take on vampires that reflects on race, addiction, love, and more. The late Octavia Butler was a powerful and respected s-f writer whose presence as a Black woman in a genre dominated by white males provided a much needed perspective. This novel has a central character who manages to be strong and believable in spite of being, technically at least, not human (Butler's vampires are not human, but are a humanoid species, possibly alien, that lives alongside us and in a symbiotic relationship with certain of us). The story revolves around the destruction of two vampire families, one male and one female (long story), who were using genetic engineering and human DNA to try to overcome their species aversion to sunlight.
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Brain-sol complex that sucks the life out of us ... to settle resolutions about life that are dissonant! That's life as normal ... disturbed people about what's missing and misty ... Plae it out ... then it is left to rest ... what remains!
 
Carolla said:
Just diving into "Seinfeldia - How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything" by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong - received as a Xmas gift. Yup - count me as a big Seinfeld fan in its day. It's interesting to read the background stories of how the series came to be, who the various original characters & story lines were based upon etc etc. etc. I hadn't known that Jason Alexander - George - was actually an accomplished stage actor - winner of a Tony award for best leading actor in a musical (!) at a young age, prior to joining the Seinfeld gang. I'll probably be an even better trivia player when I finish reading!
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Sign fields ... we live in such pastoral areas ... and don't understand ... that's word for yah ...intellectual mist Eerie ... fogs the earthbound mind ... aliens plae IT! Nothing stranger than psyche ... right? From the folks that fear psyche amd Sophia ... with the quote: "Don't think ... we'll do it fore yah!" What de vile is going on here?
 
Waterfall said:
Just watched, "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" on Netflix and hosted by Seinfeld......wasn't too impressed.
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Too instituted by r*el*ig*IO*US to be part of that particulate gang ... all broke up? IO's moved west ... a grand deficit ... the pits of intellect! Sometimes expressed as "V" de Niche ... like a wrinkle, or other invertebrate ... tis all inde marrow ... a line of words as roe ... seminal; metaphorical Eve'n ... a'damn patch ... in a great fabrication as yetis unseen ...
 
Carolla said:
I hadn't known that Jason Alexander - George - was actually an accomplished stage actor - winner of a Tony award for best leading actor in a musical (!) at a young age, prior to joining the Seinfeld gang
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Back either when Seinfeld was still on or had just ended, I saw that he was a guest on Evening at Pops on PBS. I wasn't quite sure why or what he would do, so I watched. Wow, he just burned up that stage singing and acting out songs. Amazing. Then I looked into his history and found out about him being a Broadway star.
 
Spirit Wind 7 said:
I am reading, "Embers" by Richard Wagamese. We're using it in our study group.
His words are scenery in his life, they are majestic and humble at the same time

It is a deeply spiritual writing.

Blessings all readers...

Spirit Wind 7
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Richard Wagamese's books are amazing and beautiful. I felt like someone kicked me in the stomach when I heard he had died. I was looking forward to a lifetime of his work.
 
Luce NDs said:
Just completed reading the Giller Prize selection Bellevue Square ...

A great sense of drifting off in the imaginary ... abstract ... or the dark spot in the brain ... some say an point where one stares at some dimension beyond the present ...

Anybody read it? Appears to be an unreal projection ... perhaps of thoughts that are nothing ... thus can't be detected by much of the paradigm ...

This may limit interest and curiosity to some who disbelieve that outer dimension ... could leave them glazed in expression ... crocks as Greek Vassals? Rift in reality ...
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You just reminded me that this is definitely on my "to read" list.
 
Now reading Northrup Frye's Spiritis Mundi ... the sense of how literature can take a soul into different dimensions of magnitude (mag'n etude) from brute force ... thus leaving intelligence beneath the more emotional dimension ... like "^" compared to "v" were V*nous is a closure of the distance in the universal circle that is denied by flat-liners ... the walking blind?

Spiritus Mundi is a Latin term that literally means, 'world spirit'. In Spiritus Mundi, there is, according to William Butler Yeats: 'a universal memory and a 'muse' of sorts that provides inspiration to the poet or writer'.
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Tis another epis ode ... where spirit is related to soul/sol ... or a perplexing difference that may bring on divine swedes as ABBA 'd thing for Maw Mamia .. the great void of the former one ... as monos? Some people get real sick because of the KISS and Buzz ...

Emotions still have a grip on those brutally sure they're better 'n thou as sister B' ertha 'n!

Bertha 'n can cause connection to the Quay ... but some abstract may be required on top of the absolute sill*as foundation all lists that virtue allez ... go nowhere to know less!

Thus thou go west for the nip of the occi dent ... with disorientation of where the dip came from? Bearing of the Grim Tales of the old dragon ... as drawn out of Runes by dru Ides ... stuff that goes on in the shadow as Chamois ... Mountain sheep that affiliate with goads on high?
 
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Luce NDs said:
Now reading Northrup Frye's Spiritis Mundi
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Haven't heard of that one. I have The Great Code and have read some other bits of his writing over the years. Apparently he and Grandad were classmates at one point in university but Grandad never mentioned him, at least around me. We found out after Grandad died when Frye dropped Grandad's name in a book of interviews that someone did with Frye. My cousin saw it and put two and two together (I read it later after she told us about it).
 
Mendalla said:
Haven't heard of that one. I have The Great Code and have read some other bits of his writing over the years. Apparently he and Grandad were classmates at one point in university but Grandad never mentioned him, at least around me. We found out after Grandad died when Frye dropped Grandad's name in a book of interviews that someone did with Frye. My cousin saw it and put two and two together (I read it later after she told us about it).
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He wrote some fierce stuff that would baffle those of institutional Theo Logos that can't take the theory of word further than acceptable to mortal thought (limited versions)! Thus extensive linguist IHCs and the hellish stream .. like salmon one must beat their way against them the whole distance of the void ... a kind of ravaging stream ... of self (IHC) destruction ... Pogo? Under an edited label we found the Swerve ... not acceptable to a great swarm of straight liners either ...

If one relates God and word does this affect to po*My*Sole Zoans? With imagination they may be Zi on*ist... beyond themselves ... in the mode of racing of absolute against abstract that leads me to the next books by RD Laing ... a flat out psychiatrist that opposed drugs in use against the imaginary organs ... mine's ... as wormholes in explicit domains ...

If you get beyond the ordinary people ... they think you're in's Ain ... a'Saint in the coming ... thus not ... denied/eliminated? Makes room for sublimation ... a cool dunking process ... Like Henry Viii did to the Ann's! Another myth about decent processes as kitty control ...

Some people make myths into truths ... when they don't know the divine nation of difference ... then as mortal what would we know of immortal virtue? Twas, tis and trill be foggy enigma ...
 
The Mercedes Coffin by Faye Kellerman. I like the Jewish connection in this series

Peter Decker and his wife Rina Lazarus
 
I got The Brothers Karamazov for Christmas. I am attempting to un-do my general ignorance of Russian lit. I don't think they offered a Russian Lit course when I was majoring in English at Laurentian. I've read and enjoyed a few Chekhov short stories, own Tolstoy's New Testament, more as a curiosity than a regular reference.
 
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