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  • trentk
    Senior Member
    • Oct 2010
    • 709

    Tracing the most intimate contours of psychological space with Clarice Lispector, and the inner geometry of physical space (string theory) with Shing-Tung Yau. I was worried Yau's book would be too pop-sci (I'm familiar with contemporary geometry and not afraid of equations)... but I'm getting alot out of it b/c my knowledge of physics isn't as strong as my knowledge of math.
    "He described this initial impetus as like discovering that they both were looking at the same intriguing specific tropical fish, with attempts to understand it leading to a huge ferocious formalism he characterizes as a shark that leapt out of the tank."

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    • qazwsx
      Senior Member
      • Feb 2012
      • 289

      reading this these days

      Willful Blindness by Margaret Heffernan


      really interesting.
      It's human nature to blind ourselves from the truth that might hurt us - that might not affirm our values, our worldview, our very fragile subjectives.

      Why could Catholic churches not see their abusing priests?
      Why could mortgagees take on some many debts?

      "We make ourselves powerless when we pretend we don't know"

      "Only when we confront facts and fears can we achieve real power and unleash our capacity for change."
      "Things you own, end up owning you." --- Tyler Durden [FightClub 1999]

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      • Philipppp
        Senior Member
        • Apr 2010
        • 106

        Tokyo Lucky Hole and economics.
        01222345699

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        • Atom
          Senior Member
          • Sep 2009
          • 310

          Tokyo Lucky Hole? That's a quick read.

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          • TheThief
            Senior Member
            • Mar 2011
            • 435

            It's a short one but a real brutally poignant story of the slow death of the middle class in the US. You'll blow through it in a few hours but it will stick with you.

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            • fireflygrave
              Member
              • Aug 2012
              • 66



              and next on the list

              put a tiger in your tank

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              • keilani
                Member
                • Jan 2012
                • 43

                numerous textbooks, thoughts without a thinker, the secret (again), the myth etc.

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                • Magic1
                  Senior Member
                  • Jan 2011
                  • 225

                  That wabi sabi book is great. And a lovely object as well. In praise of shadows is a nice, although totally different, companion.


                  Recently started The Concept of the Political by Carl Schmitt. It's okay so far.

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                  • AKA*NYC
                    Senior Member
                    • Nov 2007
                    • 3007

                    Originally posted by Magic1 View Post
                    Recently started The Concept of the Political by Carl Schmitt.
                    cf. recent activity in the "john galliano sacked by dior thread"
                    LOVE THE SHIRST... HOW much?

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                    • sixledge
                      Member
                      • Dec 2011
                      • 59

                      Reading the Stranger right now but does anyone have recommendations for someone who likes to read Henry Miller?

                      Finished almost all of his books....was thinking of going for some Anais Nin but have not read anything by her and don't know where to start.

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                      • Vanna
                        Senior Member
                        • May 2008
                        • 1217

                        Just started "Everything Flows" by Vasily Grossman. I feel like its going to be an experience.
                        Life is a hiiighway

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                        • Fade to Black
                          Senior Member
                          • Sep 2008
                          • 5340

                          Just copped:

                          www.matthewhk.net

                          let me show you a few thangs

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                          • Faust
                            kitsch killer
                            • Sep 2006
                            • 37852

                            /\ Is that new?
                            Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

                            StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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                            • Fade to Black
                              Senior Member
                              • Sep 2008
                              • 5340

                              Yes, posthumous collection of essays have just gone through two and its a delight like the kind only his brand of incisive insight provides. Have always been most fond of DFW for his essays
                              www.matthewhk.net

                              let me show you a few thangs

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                              • Faust
                                kitsch killer
                                • Sep 2006
                                • 37852

                                Cool, thanks for the heads up. I see why I missed it - I was away the weekend the NY Times book review section shows up.
                                Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

                                StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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