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Mr Rosewater

If oxidative damage causes aging then we all burn up in the end, Mr Vonnegut One cannot have subtlety without context. re The volunteer firement trying to prevent their loved ones from combining with oxygen, in God Bless You, Mr Rosewater

a dedicated review

ok, I had way too much fun writing this review...I picked up this book while walking around Barnes and Noble last night and well, you can read...F*ck your Book

"Here's how I know I've Made it in America"

"I've made it not because I assimilated, or because I have a little bit of money, or because my voice be heard. I've made it because I can disagree with and question what America is really all about. I've made it because I

Emerson gets me: quote of the day

"It [providence] has shown the heaven and earth to every child, and filled him with a desire of the whole; a desire raging, infinite; a hunger, as of space to be filled with planets; a cry of famine, as of devils for souls. Then for the satisfaction, - to

Vizzini...

Just finished "Its kind of a Funny Story", great book, looked up the author and found he committed suicide in 2013, 9 years after he wrote the book about depression and real friends and creativity and his 5 days in a psych ward. And tried to find his

What I like best about the Federalist Papers

In the intro, Hamilton wrote "It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and

Humility is apparently not The Goal

Just finished reading Eliyahu Goldratt's The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement. I liked it fairly well, found it actually pretty inspiring about 2/3 of the way through, but he lost me at the end when he seemed to imply that his Theory of Constraints could solve

Lincoln on pragmatic idealism

I really like these quotes from his debate with Douglass: "This they said and this they meant (the equality of those certain unalienable rights). They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth, that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet, that they were about to confer

"I just want to emphasize the point that we are disconnected from reality"

Quotes from Shoot an Iraqi by Wafaa Bilal and Kari Lydersen. Thought-provoking book...raw, kind of a flat humor without hatred even though a US military drone killed his brother, and Saddam killed numerous other family members. Some quotes : "Solitude was such sweetness to me that it was worth

bandersnatch and brain child

Made a good haul at the Book Stop on 4th Ave recently - they have an excellent collection of classic sci-fi, as well as really good kids authors like Avi and Roald Dahl. Bandersnatch by Kevin O'Donnell, Jr. A first novel, which I generally like - fresh if