17 Feb
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I never finished Remembrance of Things Past. I got as far as Sodom and Gomorrah, which is volume four out of Proust’s seven volume opus, and then I drifted off to something else. I never finished History of the English Speaking Peoples (four volumes), either. And I barely scratched the surface of [...]
09 Nov
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I just finished reading Rising Tide by John M. Barry. It tells the story of the Mississippi Flood of 1927. Despite having traveled a fair amount over this country of ours, I never thought much about the enormity of the Mississippi River before reading this book. The Mississippi River Basin stretches from [...]
In our last book club meeting we discussed Silence by Shusaku Endo. It was about the Japanese persecution of Christians in the 17th century, told from the perspective of a Portuguese missionary and authored by a Japanese Catholic. Most of our group didn’t like it. It was too heavy on theology.
One of [...]
Taoist creation myths are SEXY.
“At ‘the beginning of anteriority before the beginning’ the fluid of heaven first descended and the fluid of earth first ascended. The male and female principles interosculated, prompting and striving among the elements of the cosmos. The forces wandered hither and thither, pursuing, competing, interpenetrating. Clothed with energy, they moved, sifted, [...]
Category: Histories