Read, read, read!!!! education, imagination, humour
not-long time ago I finished two books about latest most important event of my home town, which was a calling it a stronghold (Festing) and defending it, commonly known as battle over Festin Breslau. Now I'm reading book about my a part of Wroclaw where I grow up, and what was in 90% destroyed as a result of said battle over Festun Breslau.
Misha Glenny: DarkMarket. Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You.
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Alex66
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At the moment I am slowly going through 100 Artists Manifestos, The various Dada-ist ones are great.
The illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph. - Walter Benjamin
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Indeed!Kutan wrote:Not only is Stuart's stuff generally quite good, but The Light Beneath the Waves is especially fine. Highly recommended!
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
—Bertrand Russell
—Bertrand Russell
Couple books about meine Stadt and Brave New World by A. Huxley.
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sultan2075
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Currently reading I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe.
I don't read much fiction, so it's been a pleasure. I've already come across a few passages that will probably end up in my classes.
I don't read much fiction, so it's been a pleasure. I've already come across a few passages that will probably end up in my classes.
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The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
ended few days ago: Charles Chaplin: My Autobiography.
Now: J. Joll, G. Martel: The Orgins of the First World War.
(And few more in-beetween, as I'm reading two books).
Now: J. Joll, G. Martel: The Orgins of the First World War.
(And few more in-beetween, as I'm reading two books).
The further adventures of 'Juice' Terry.... 
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million voices
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I recently JG Ballard - Cocaine Nights which I enjoyed immensely.
I don't know if he got the title from the line from "Dandy In The Underworld" but one likes to thinks so
I had tried "Crash" several months ago but couldn't get past the first few pages.
I don't know if he got the title from the line from "Dandy In The Underworld" but one likes to thinks so
I had tried "Crash" several months ago but couldn't get past the first few pages.
Well you must know something
'Cos we're dying of admiration here
Mastering obscure alternatives
'Cos we're dying of admiration here
Mastering obscure alternatives
I love Ballard, Unlimited Dream Company, Millenium People, Crash, Kingdome Come.
Recently I ended reading Marcus Aurelius: Meditation, now on the list is Pierre Hadot: Inner Citadel, and few books by Peter F. Drucker.
Recently I ended reading Marcus Aurelius: Meditation, now on the list is Pierre Hadot: Inner Citadel, and few books by Peter F. Drucker.
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The last ever TP book 
Goths have feelings too
Philip Kerr - Berlin Noir
Finished March Violets, near half The Pale Criminal and will end with the "A german requiem"
Finished March Violets, near half The Pale Criminal and will end with the "A german requiem"
'Are we the Baddies?'...
"Someday! Someday, everything you need, is just gonna fall out of the sky..." -A.E. Reading 1991
"Don't forget that most of the judges in witches trials had harvard degrees."
"Someday! Someday, everything you need, is just gonna fall out of the sky..." -A.E. Reading 1991
"Don't forget that most of the judges in witches trials had harvard degrees."
Edward Gibbon: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
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you mean Gibbon 
right ?
right ? 'Are we the Baddies?'...
"Someday! Someday, everything you need, is just gonna fall out of the sky..." -A.E. Reading 1991
"Don't forget that most of the judges in witches trials had harvard degrees."
"Someday! Someday, everything you need, is just gonna fall out of the sky..." -A.E. Reading 1991
"Don't forget that most of the judges in witches trials had harvard degrees."
Yes, that's what I wrote.iesus wrote:you mean Gibbon
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Oh, I thought you said Gibbon
Well you must know something
'Cos we're dying of admiration here
Mastering obscure alternatives
'Cos we're dying of admiration here
Mastering obscure alternatives
Among few others:
Ben Collins - How to drive.
I must say that is well written book and it gives lot of useful information.
Ben Collins - How to drive.
I must say that is well written book and it gives lot of useful information.
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Been reading Descartes' Discourse on Method and Meditations, since I decided to teach them this term. Haven't read either in ages.
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The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
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"Marshland: Dreams and Nightmares on the Edge of London" by Gareth E Rees
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Just finished Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That: Modern Art Explained by susie Hodge, thoroughly enjoyed it even if it was a bit light on art theory. I get wound up with people saying oh there is no skill there etc so thought it would be interesting.
Currently reading a translation of Baudelaire's The Flowers Of Evil and a collection of Poems by Walt Whitman.
Currently reading a translation of Baudelaire's The Flowers Of Evil and a collection of Poems by Walt Whitman.
The illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph. - Walter Benjamin
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Chapters of the Fathers (Pirkei Avot)
Intersting taking fact that in Judaism as in Protestantism (all creeds) "holy" books are interpreted more freely by "supporters", more to be use in current Times, everyday, than in Catholicism. Yet, at some level SAMO as in every reigion.
Intersting taking fact that in Judaism as in Protestantism (all creeds) "holy" books are interpreted more freely by "supporters", more to be use in current Times, everyday, than in Catholicism. Yet, at some level SAMO as in every reigion.
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quality observational humour and youth culture (well, our age culture now i suppose) insight as always; bit slow moving but £2 from the bargain bookshop.
Well I was handsome and I was strong
And I knew the words to every song.
"Did my singing please you?"
"No! The words you sang were wrong!"
And I knew the words to every song.
"Did my singing please you?"
"No! The words you sang were wrong!"