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I remember, as a child, my grandmother had bonbons, that were covered w/ their own dust. I liked to keep them in my mouth till the dust had melted and then I would place them on another tray. Once I had licked the dust out of all bonbons.
I think this defines part of my attitude towards books, for it is impossible to read all the good books, but I try to at least get their essense, the feel. Someone once said, that “some people write a book to help other people write one sentence”. I think one can enjoy some books simply by having them, by holding them, by reading the dust jacket and a few pages.
This is a collection of my intellectual pursuits. I am uploading several 1 000s of notes from different sources. It might take a while.
The content is leading and that the form is like the 80s Internet.
I do not plan to change that.
Notes
Русский
Книги
Пикник на обочине 27 апрель 2025-
Фильм
Люди
English
Research
Original Thought
[How I became the Mother of Durrell or Why and How I bought a horse] 2024-
People Reading in Public
(working title) Empathy as an Ingredient of Expertise
Philosophy
Paradox of Tolerance in Tolerance
Literature
A Theory of Semiotics by Umberto Eco
The Cocktail Party by T. S. Eliot
The Revival of Political Imagination. Utopia as Methodology. I did not think a book about politics will excited me at my age, like I am in my late teens.
Time Within Time: The Diaries 1970–1986 by Andrei Tarkovsky
Silverview by John le Carré (I am Edward Avon)
The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald (learned about it from Edward Avon from Silverview)
Cavett by Dick Cavett and Christopher Porterfield 27 April 2025-
[Eye on Cavett] While researching Christopher Porterfield in relation to Cavett 30 April 2025-
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin The formative book of a good friend in his late teens and early 20s.
[The Handmaid’s Tale] MA on recommendation by AEE I first refused due to hype then discovered its 300 pages and how did they make so many episodes? 1 May 2025 image in the desert eat stones ///
Review of the Press
Human Nature
Creativity Paul McCartney and John Cleese
Friendship Why is it more difficult to make friends as an adult?
Change / Change before you have to / when you change (that image) /
People
A very high profile people using popular quotes
My Idols are Dead and my Enempies are in Power
Extraordinary people have ordinary problems
x x x
Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dame_Edna_Everage])https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dame_Edna_Everage)
Dick Cavett reading Cavett 3 May 2025
Ursula Le Guin 30 April 2025
Louise Bourgeois
[Dame Edna] w/ Trump https://www.facebook.com/reel/137556588406027?fs=e&fs=e
Huxley https://www.facebook.com/reel/1942626972759778?fs=e&fs=e
Stuart Nolan re: PhD 3 May 2025
Cinema
Conclave, 5 April 2025. Good my way.
Papers and Magazines
Articles
12 April 2025
The Scots magician who inspired the great Houdini
Laws
Kidlin’s Law (no record of Kidlin) “If one writes a problem down in an understandable way, half of the problem is solved.”
Deutsch
Personen
[Ferdinand Raimund]
[Johann Nestroy]
Literatur
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleinschreibung Adolf Loos, Elfride Jelinek
x x x
Rechtswissenschaft
Gesellschaft
Historikerstreit / Ernst Nolte / Der Faschismus in seiner Epoche / see Review of the Press of 4 May 2025
Zeitschriften
https://brotundspielezeitschrift.at via Claudia fb
Français
Cinéma
https://www.canalplus.com/cinema/
https://boutique.arte.tv
x x x
La rebelle, les aventures de la jeune George Sand
Madame Bovary
[Le Blé en herbe] 27 April 2025
Livres
For a fine vocabulary, read 137 books
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_literature#French_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature_winners
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_literature#French_literary_awards
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_literature#Key_texts
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littérature_française
1 Les Trois Mousquetaires … audio+epub
2 Le Comte de Monte-Cristo 28 July 2024-9 March 2025 audio only
3 La Comtesse d’Escarbagnas 17 February 2025 audio only
4 Laura. Voyages et Impressions (1865) 9 March 2025-… audio
5 Le Blé en herbe 26 April 2025
Surveiller et punir de Michel Foucault
Journaux et Magazines
Revues
Les gens
Maisons d’édition
J’ai lu https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/J’ai_lu Le Blé en herbe
Music
Claude Debussy 2 Arabesques, CD 74: No. 1 in E Major. Andantino con moto – https://youtu.be/nId-f-_pKbQ
Them Bones by Alice in Chains
White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane
Señorita https://youtu.be/Pkh8UtuejGw
The Cold Song Best performances and Special Mentions.
Computing
Have a question or need help?
I help gladly.
Email me at t.e.shaw@dahoum.wales.