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  1. Hi Roy. A real good primer on this subject is titled Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction from Oxford University Press [iSBN: 0192853570]. As I write this post, there's one available at bookdepository.co.uk. Good luck, & don't give up, lots of brain food to be had if you're patient.
  2. A favorite of mine: 'There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad on a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight. He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time. He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars and over the face of dead matter that did not move.' - The Call of the Wild, Jack London
  3. Meridian You know odd thing is, I typically don't care for that particular style, but Blood Meridian was h*ll for stout a good read IMO.
  4. Aye, every time I hear his playing, I think 'tactility'.
  5. Hey-hey cb, nice to meet you [wondering to self if you've read Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach?] You betcha! Such a talented guy. Today its - The Omer Avital Quintet: Sorta has that Saturday Night Live groove...
  6. Got the jazz bug real bad on my end... Miles Davis - All Blues
  7. Sure enough (my TBR file threatens to over take me as well).
  8. Howdy folks, nice to meet you all. Just finished up Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. This may well be the de-facto Western novel... very Gothic feel, even 'old-testament harsh'. A quick snippet: 'See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt. He stokes the scullery fire. Outside lie dark turned fields with rags of snow and darker woods beyond that harbor yet a few last wolves. His folk are known for hewers of wood and drawers of water but in truth his father has been a schoolmaster. He lies in drink, he quotes from poets whose names are now lost. The boy crouches by the fire and watches him. Night of your birth. Thirty-three. The Leonids they were called. God how the stars did fall. I looked for blackness, holes in the heavens. The Dipper stove. The mother dead these fourteen years did incubate in her own bosom the creature who would carry her off. The father never speaks her name, the child does not know it. He has a sister in this world that he will not see again. He watches, pale and unwashed. He can neither read nor write and in him broods already a taste for mindless violence. All history present in that visage, the child the father of the man...' While I felt McCarthy could use more punctuation in places (seems he very purposely does not), his use of colloquial-syntax (my 50¢ word today!) imparts an authentic feel to BM. Maybe C. S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters next...
  9. Hi Janet, hope you'll forgive me for rewarming an older topic. Down and Out in Paris and London great read! Like you, I've read most if not all of his novels at this point (cant decide if my fave Orwell fiction is Coming up for Air or Keep the Aspidistra Flying). Assuming here you've had the time to read them, did you enjoy his essays? Shooting an Elephant comes to mind... good stuff.
  10. Just finished Aldous Huxley's Ape and Essence. While he's better known for Brave New World, A&E is well, err... really trippy. Of it, wikipedia states: 'The book makes extensive use of surrealist imagery, depicting humans as apes who, as a whole, will inevitably commit suicide.'
  11. Hi folks. Let me toss my hat in the ring here & recommend Seven Years in Tibet. Great travelogue in my opinion. Here's a synopsis via wikipedia: 'Seven Years in Tibet is an autobiographical travel book written by Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer based on his real life experiences in Tibet between 1944 and 1951 during the Second World War and the interim period before the Communist Chinese People's Liberation Army invaded Tibet in 1950. The book covers the escape of Harrer, and his companion Peter Aufschnaiter, from a British internment camp in India. Harrer and Aufschnaiter then travelled across Tibet to Lhasa, the capital. Here they spent several years, and Harrer describes the contemporary Tibetan culture in detail. Harrer subsequently became a tutor and friend of the 14th Dalai Lama.
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