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Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 1:53 pm Posts: 10284 Location: in the air tonight
Because ST was so enthusiastic about it, I picked up the Tartt Secret History book a couple days ago at the used bookstore. The post-it note on the inside cover read:
$5 BEWARE! slightly warped
Anyway, I read the first 45 pages this morning with my coffee and was already into it. I spent the rest of the day either doing homework for this silly online class I'm taking or procrastinating doing that homework by internetting or playing chess, but I'm excited to get back into it more seriously tomorrow.
An enigma of a man shaped hole in the wall between reality and the soul of the devil.
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 5:13 pm Posts: 39835 Location: 6000 feet beyond man and time.
Don't let the dry cover and title fool you, this book is pretty nuts. He basically argues that human consciousness only started about 3000-4000 years ago, and before that, we were all basically schizophrenic, being told what to do by "gods" or voices in our heads.
- Most of the Iliad and Odyssey is written as though the gods control everything the humans do. He proposes that this isn't just style, but descriptions of their actual experience. Another example is Socrates saying he was told his ideas by a "daemon", etc. - Lots of weird and somewhat terrifying info on how brains work, and how they don't work when damaged. - There are essentially two different people living in our heads today. Freaky shit. - Some of the philosophy of consciousness and mind seems kinda shaky to me. His definition of consciousness is weird, but it's still a fun read.
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 7:41 am Posts: 19725 Location: Cumberland, RI
BurtReynolds wrote:
Don't let the dry cover and title fool you, this book is pretty nuts. He basically argues that human consciousness only started about 3000-4000 years ago, and before that, we were all basically schizophrenic, being told what to do by "gods" or voices in our heads.
- Most of the Iliad and Odyssey is written as though the gods control everything the humans do. He proposes that this isn't just style, but descriptions of their actual experience. Another example is Socrates saying he was told his ideas by a "daemon", etc. - Lots of weird and somewhat terrifying info on how brains work, and how they don't work when damaged. - There are essentially two different people living in our heads today. Freaky shit. - Some of the philosophy of consciousness and mind seems kinda shaky to me. His definition of consciousness is weird, but it's still a fun read.
12 mental breakdowns.
This was basically the source text for the Westworld series.
An enigma of a man shaped hole in the wall between reality and the soul of the devil.
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 5:13 pm Posts: 39835 Location: 6000 feet beyond man and time.
Simple Torture wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:
Don't let the dry cover and title fool you, this book is pretty nuts. He basically argues that human consciousness only started about 3000-4000 years ago, and before that, we were all basically schizophrenic, being told what to do by "gods" or voices in our heads.
- Most of the Iliad and Odyssey is written as though the gods control everything the humans do. He proposes that this isn't just style, but descriptions of their actual experience. Another example is Socrates saying he was told his ideas by a "daemon", etc. - Lots of weird and somewhat terrifying info on how brains work, and how they don't work when damaged. - There are essentially two different people living in our heads today. Freaky shit. - Some of the philosophy of consciousness and mind seems kinda shaky to me. His definition of consciousness is weird, but it's still a fun read.
12 mental breakdowns.
This was basically the source text for the Westworld series.
Someone mentioned that in the reviews. Haven't seen the show yet.
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 7:41 am Posts: 19725 Location: Cumberland, RI
BurtReynolds wrote:
Simple Torture wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:
Don't let the dry cover and title fool you, this book is pretty nuts. He basically argues that human consciousness only started about 3000-4000 years ago, and before that, we were all basically schizophrenic, being told what to do by "gods" or voices in our heads.
- Most of the Iliad and Odyssey is written as though the gods control everything the humans do. He proposes that this isn't just style, but descriptions of their actual experience. Another example is Socrates saying he was told his ideas by a "daemon", etc. - Lots of weird and somewhat terrifying info on how brains work, and how they don't work when damaged. - There are essentially two different people living in our heads today. Freaky shit. - Some of the philosophy of consciousness and mind seems kinda shaky to me. His definition of consciousness is weird, but it's still a fun read.
12 mental breakdowns.
This was basically the source text for the Westworld series.
Someone mentioned that in the reviews. Haven't seen the show yet.
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 6:02 am Posts: 9712 Location: Tristes Tropiques
Finished The Secret History. Loved it. Starting:
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VinylGuy wrote:
its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 6:02 am Posts: 9712 Location: Tristes Tropiques
The Argonaut wrote:
I drove out to Bennington (the inspiration for Tartt's Hampden) yesterday, and walked around the campus of Bennington College and downtown Bennington
Did you run into Dionysis or Julian Morrow?
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VinylGuy wrote:
its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
I still want to know what that certain "carnal dimension" was. Murder orgy?
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VinylGuy wrote:
its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 6:02 am Posts: 9712 Location: Tristes Tropiques
Taking a break from C&P:
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VinylGuy wrote:
its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
Joined: Tue September 24, 2013 5:56 pm Posts: 47182 Location: In the oatmeal aisle wearing a Shellac shirt
Making my way through a stack of business/professional/financial books. Not exactly riveting stuff but I’m making short work of it. Currently halfway through book three of seven.
An enigma of a man shaped hole in the wall between reality and the soul of the devil.
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 5:13 pm Posts: 39835 Location: 6000 feet beyond man and time.
Shadow of the Torturer
I heard a lot of things about this series, but it's very hard to follow on audiobook. I'll probably just listen to it all the way through and go back through it again more carefully. It's not bad.
A biography called Ernst Lubitsch: Laughter In Paradise by Scott Eyman.
have you read bogdanovich and welles’ book?
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Jorge wrote:
I remember I was in Miami when it happened. I was posting from the balcony of my apartment overlooking the beach. And I was having an argument with Adamdude.
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