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- Пн, 19:21: Cheap books bought from Fopp "Soft Machine" William Burroughs and Philip K Dick "Flow My Tears The Policeman Said"
- Пн, 19:23: @DoverCastleInn Apologies to Jimbo about the dehydration
- Пн, 23:13: London Tripping http://t.co/AmBln8AD
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- Пн, 23:46: Listening to Steve Reich "Four Organs" before going to bed, dowloaded from ubu web. Check it out!
Nov. 15th, 2011
When I woke up this morning I opened the curtains to a sunny glorious vista, if you can look out at the London Road as a glorious vista, which I doubt, but you get the gist of it.
I looked forward to do something outside only to be frustrated by the fact that by the afternoon turned very chilly. In the end, I decided to nip over to Faversham, rather than nullify my brain with TV, and in the end I was glad I did. Picked up three books for £1.25 from charity shops and picked up some more shag for the pipe. The paperbacks were -
Ernest Hemingway “The Old Man And The Sea” (Vintage)
Malcolm Gladwell – Blink, The Power of Thinking Without Thinking” (Penguin)
Hermann Broch – The Unknown Quantity (Northwestern U.P.)
That last one is a bit of a find ,as checking both Amazon and Play, is worth around £15 new or secondhand. The book is a biographical analysis of a mathematician called Richard Heck.
Born in Germany in the early twentieth century, mild and sensitive Richard Hieck endured a quietly difficult childhood. Raised in humble circumstances, Richard was profoundly influenced by his withdrawn mother and by his father -- an enigma whose devotion centered not on his five children but on his mysterious career. From his father, Richard inherited an interest in the night sky, learning to love the constellations and to take comfort in the strength of Orion and the warm radiance of Venus. At the same time, his shadowy, elusive father influenced Richard to pursue studies in mathematics, a field offering the discipline Richard had craved as a child. In The Unknown Quantity, Hermann Broch examines the underlying chaos -- and, finally, the impossibility -- of life within a society whose values are in decay. As Richard seeks to reconcile the conflicting demands of love and science, of passion and reason, he and those in his orbit must endure the effects of societal and family values -- even as the values descend into madness.
I looked forward to do something outside only to be frustrated by the fact that by the afternoon turned very chilly. In the end, I decided to nip over to Faversham, rather than nullify my brain with TV, and in the end I was glad I did. Picked up three books for £1.25 from charity shops and picked up some more shag for the pipe. The paperbacks were -
Ernest Hemingway “The Old Man And The Sea” (Vintage)
Malcolm Gladwell – Blink, The Power of Thinking Without Thinking” (Penguin)
Hermann Broch – The Unknown Quantity (Northwestern U.P.)
That last one is a bit of a find ,as checking both Amazon and Play, is worth around £15 new or secondhand. The book is a biographical analysis of a mathematician called Richard Heck.
Born in Germany in the early twentieth century, mild and sensitive Richard Hieck endured a quietly difficult childhood. Raised in humble circumstances, Richard was profoundly influenced by his withdrawn mother and by his father -- an enigma whose devotion centered not on his five children but on his mysterious career. From his father, Richard inherited an interest in the night sky, learning to love the constellations and to take comfort in the strength of Orion and the warm radiance of Venus. At the same time, his shadowy, elusive father influenced Richard to pursue studies in mathematics, a field offering the discipline Richard had craved as a child. In The Unknown Quantity, Hermann Broch examines the underlying chaos -- and, finally, the impossibility -- of life within a society whose values are in decay. As Richard seeks to reconcile the conflicting demands of love and science, of passion and reason, he and those in his orbit must endure the effects of societal and family values -- even as the values descend into madness.
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