Current? This moment? These 15 minutes?
People who encourage me through their efforts in pursuing my ideas, my curiosities?
My current most favorite people are those who made such a thing and made it possible for me to buy.
Amazing!
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Industrial History
Worn by Sofi Thanhauser (Astonishing)
Chip War by Chris Miller (Astonishing)
I like these histories better than other kinds of histories.
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7 is also a good number
List three books that have had an impact on you. Why?
The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
Debt – David Graeber
Sorting Things Out – Geoffrey Bowker and Susan Leigh Star
Consciousness & The Breakdown of the Bicameral Brain – Julian Jaynes
The Myth of Mental Illness – Thomas Szasz
Exactly – Simon Winchester
Loonshots – Safi Bahcall
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Paul Barnes
How stupid!
Not reading Julian Barnes, coz I mistook him for Paul Auster in my visual head. What kind of nut does that! My kind.
Sorry Sir Barnes, my loss after all.
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Party with whom?
Finding that book to party with.
Themes of the day:
Newness
Sameness
Matching
Between the lines
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Who’s got the time?
Am reading Brian J McVeigh’s phenomenal A Psychohistory of Metaphors.
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State of Reading and Writing
How many are reading and how many are writing for SEO?
That reminds me, I was reading a terrific book on reading before my June trip. Got to resume that. Reading.
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All Men Are Liars
I discovered Alberto Manguel today morning.
The subject line is the title of one of his books.
When you search with that title in some search engine, more amazing titles come tumbling out.
Cheers!
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The Waste Books
Dear Parent,
Who calls such amazing fragments of writing THE WASTE BOOKS! But Georg Christoph Lichtenberg did. And his writings were popular among the finest of minds.
It contains aphorisms, fragments and little gems written by him way way back.
Going by the size of every fragment, it would delight the youngster. But to be able to read such short fragments and make sense of them, one has to have done some good reading earlier, as inadvertent preparation.
But the youngster doesn’t have much time until college, and after college there’s no time for learning through reading. Are my impressions correct? Am I living in a different world?
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Using information
Books help you do that. They give you the theories, formulae, logic, etc. to use/process the information and arrive at inferences/conclusions. And different books use the same information to give you competing results.
On many occasions websites/applications are nothing but instant processing machines based on the same theories, formulae, logic given in some of these books. Feed the info, get the result. Quick and smart.
Websites are nice. Books aren’t so (subscription to websites far outstrip the readers of books).
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And the Oscar goes to…
Searching for good books to read is an old pastime for me.
You nut, Oscar is not for books!
Hey Naatu Naatu, when ordering online wasn’t an option, I used to visit Crosswords at Mithakali Crossroads quite often.
The Bestsellers section attracted attention. Books carrying the words New York Times’ Bestseller attracted attention and lured me into buying. Booker Prize Winner, those words also lured me into buying some. Later, even ‘nominated for’ lured me into buying.
Aww, even as I write this I open the wikipedia page for Literary Award to check my GK of awards awarded across the world.
The horror lay in discovering that in following lists and awards I made weird choices.
Much much later, I could frame and tell myself that buying is experimentation, and what we buy are experiments.
Once treated this way, if a buy turns out to be a disappointment, I am able to coax myself rather easily into analyzing how I came to make such a buy.
One thing leads to another, now I ignore awards altogether. In fact, once a thing gets awarded, I tend to look the other way.
Award means avoid.
You nut, you are jealous. You are undermining Naatu Naatu’s success at the Oscars?! God will not forgive you! You anti-n…
Congratulations Mr/Ms Songmaker! Congratulations Ms/Mr Listener! Thank you Ms/Mr Reader!
Did I maintain gender equality?! You bet I did. One gender was awarded more equality than another. You see that?
My smirky Dad tells me last night, “The song got an Oscar and you say you are not impressed!”
I must get an Oscar for not getting impressed. Please introduce that category. The category of not impressed.
Please introduce an award for Tiktok dances too; I am trying to get into that. Please. You want suggestions for categories?
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Title of the 2nd Chapter
In Luhmann’s Love as Passion, the 2nd chapter carries this title:
Love as a Generalized Symbolic Medium of Communication
In my life I never thought I would be reading the expression LOVE amidst such words. But then it is Mr Luhmann and he can make it sound dry like this and yet ever intriguing all the same.
And then there are those who do their doctorates in sociology. Hello Mr Phd in Sociology, do you have Mr Luhmann’s felicity and mind to subject and address LOVE this way?
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Extracts
Connections – additional details
Coincidences – repetition
Curiosities – single events
Some expressions and relations extracted from Gary Klein’s book so far.
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Inching towards finishing 100 pages of Luhmann Explained…
Inching towards finishing 100 pages of Luhmann Explained. Feels like an achievement. Please give me a certificate of achievement, will you?
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The discovery of Stephen Vizinczey Finally spelled his…
The discovery of Stephen Vizinczey. Finally spelled his name correctly. Vi zinc zey. Remember.
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My tummy gets filled with these amazing titles…
My tummy gets filled with these amazing titles I discover and my head spins and eyes kind of groffy (that sounds like a word, but isn’t yet official, I like the sound). Since yesterday evening, have had a slight disturbing ache too. When do I read all the things that hide behind those titles? And then there’s some bit of my own writing too.
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What a title THE MISMEASURE OF MAN On…
What a title! THE MISMEASURE OF MAN. On some other day I would read it. But not at the moment. Only Luhmann right now.
Jorge Louis Borges, feel like swinging in his stories again.
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All of yesterday evening and all of night…
All of yesterday evening and all of night, Niklas Luhmann’s ideas and explanations surrounded me. Given some space, I would just read this book and sleep, and read more and sleep, and…
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