Uh, no we don’t. We really, really don’t.
Christopher Hitchens
letters to a young contrarian
Some people can’t bear solitude, let alone the idea that the heavens are empty and that we do not even succeed in troubling their deafness with our bootless cries. To be an exile or outcast on a remote shore – many minds turn away in terror and seek any source of cosiness. – Christopher Hitchens
A ceiling fan assembly instruction manual. Never in my life have I ever had so much trouble hanging a ceiling fan. This thing has got me pulling my hair out, but I ain’t gonna let it whoop me. I can do this…you have to be smarter than the fan, see. So I’m gonna take a deep breath and read the instructions. Then I’m gonna send an email to the manufacturer and give them a piece of my mind. You should NEVER have to read instructions for one of these things. This is a design flaw.
Ah. I didn’t put the rubber gasket on before I screwed in the blade plate… so the screws were too long. By adding the gasket, the plate becomes wider, and the screws don’t hit the mount before they tighten the plate. See I thought the gasket was optional. I’ve never put them on before and the fan mounted just fine. These assholes have to design their ceiling fans differently and make it all complicated.
Next week I’ll post pics of this screened-in porch we just built…or should I say ‘I’ because David did only twenty percent of the work, and badly at that. Show you people what happens when you give Zoot some good tools and a lumber package.
How to win friends and influence people.-Dale Carnegie.
The Magic Mountain in the Woods translation – quite exellent.
And for fun, Coroner’s Pidgin – an Inspector Campion mystery, quite witty in places
I hear that a nice strong cup of coffee helps in opening up the mind. Or you might want to just go pull some woman off the street. She could probably do it easily. 
Where exactly are you hanging it - I mean on what ceiling?
John Grey, ‘False Dawn’, The Delusions of Global Capitalism, New Press
And Robert Skidelsky’s review of said John Grey
Animal Farm
- George Orwell
and
Finders Keepers
- Stephen King
Mr. Mercedes came first.
The Divine Comedy and The Principles of Psychology vol.1
I’m thinking of creating an epic poem centered around the post-war travels of Diomedes, one of the heroes from the Trojan war.
Tennyson’s ‘Rizpa’ an epic poem
The Sacred Stones, by William Sarabande -excellent novel.
Reading some of the reviews for this novel, people seem to either love this book or hate it. I think I know why this is. If you start with the premise that all our fools (Young or old, great or small, ugly or beautiful, man or woman, good or bad), then this is a story that more or less confirms that premise, and the few who do obtain true wisdom share a fate similar to Socrates. As to why people either love this novel or hate it, I think its because we can all identify with at least one of the characters in this story, even though the novel is set in prehistoric times. Those who cannot accept that humanity is a race of fools would probably hate this novel. Those who have accepted this and can recognize their own foolishness would probably enjoy this novel.
Sophie’s World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy
Jostein Gaarder
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie%27s_World
I loved this book, being that I’m kind of in the basement as a philosopher, it was wonderful. It’s like my bible.
Paris The Novel
Edward Rutherfurd
h-france.net/fffh/maybe-missed/e … the-novel/
I so love historical novels. This one at times was a bit confusing insofar as the chronology is concerned.
You really have to re-adjust your mind to the chronological changes and characters. It gets a bit disorienting like traveling back and forth in time without any notice. But it was so highly interested. I don’t think that I would have given it the ending that Rutherfurd did either but I guess it worked.
The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Graveyard_Book
A children’s book but I so enjoyed it. Wasn’t bored for an instant. More delicious read at night in the silence when all are asleep but yourself. Loved the character Bod Owens.
The Eight
Katherine Neville
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eight_(novel
Reading this now. Am enjoying it. This book also goes back and forth in time but easier to follow. I love this stuff. lol
Existentialism- for and against
Paul Roubiczek
cambridge.org/us/academic/su … nd-against
Just beginning to read this. Maybe I should finish The Eight first and then devote my undivided attention to it.
Looking forward to it. I eat this stuff up though I have to ruminate quite some time.
John Bunyan: “The Pilgrim’s Progress”
You are quite the reader there, Arc.
Max Stirner 1844
The Ego and Its Own
Did Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) Plagiarise from Max Stirner (1806—56)?
John Glassford
Marietta, Nietzche, Metaphor and Cognitive Science
To Wyld: I am new, so not yet allowed to PM. Sorry.
I’m reading Dante’s Inferno. The translation is by Esolen. It’s very good. He doesn’t write in poetry, but he uses poetic devices such as end rhyme and alliteration. It’s powerful prose. This book reminds me of when passions trump reason, and the prices we pay when we let it so. I’m half way through, but I must say, it is getting tiresome watching so many people burning in hell for eternity. What about the Christan virtue of mercy? Dante’s hell is a dark place indeed.
On a side note, I’m sad that I had to look so far down to resurrect this thread.
Jung to Live By
A Guide to the Practical Application of Jungian Principals for Everyday Life
~~Eugene Pascal, Ph. L
souvenirpress.co.uk/product/jung-to-live-by/
The Face of the Deep: The Religious Ideas of C.G. Jung
~~ Charles B. Hanna