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#1231
08-09-2012, 10:54 AM
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Burr- I reread a few chapters last night.
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#1233
08-27-2012, 03:13 PM
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"Sex, Bombs and Burgers; How War, Pornography and Fast Food Have Shaped Modern Technology," by Peter Nowak.
http://www.sexbombsburgers.com/
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#1234
08-28-2012, 01:09 AM
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Currently reading the technical manual for the Drake TR-4 Single-Sideband Transceiver. The set was built in 1967 and was popular with the radio amateurs of the time. Hybrid technology.
Next in the queue; Nothing But Wodehouse by P.G. Wodehouse and edited by Ogden Nash. My favorite; Jeeves Exerts The Old Cerebellum.
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#1235
08-28-2012, 07:41 AM
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Pure - Andrew Miller
Intrusion - Ken McLeod Less than Nothing - Slavoj Zizek The Lion and the Unicorn - Richard Aldous Symposium (using the Loeb crib - apologies, classicists..) Aaron's Rod - DH Lawrence
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#1236
08-28-2012, 08:30 AM
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Metamorphoses - Ovid
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What I was living, the same am I now, dead. Though Jupiter wear out his sooty smith from whom on my last day he snatched in anger the jagged thunderbolt he pierced me with; though he wear out the others one by one who labor at the forge at Mongibello crying again 'Help! Help! Help me, good Vulcan!' as he did at Phlegra; and hurl down endlessly with all the power of heaven in his arm, small satisfaction would he win from me. - Capaneus, from Dante's Inferno, Canto XIV
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#1237
08-28-2012, 09:40 AM
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When General Grant Expelled The Jews... You gotta start somewhere.
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#1239
08-28-2012, 10:05 AM
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Kalki is is one of his better inventions, IMO. Have you read Messiah? Unusually, I think Sailer's litererary judgment is correct about Updike, i.e. The Coup is a lot better than all the stuff about middle class sexual misbehaviour.
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#1240
08-28-2012, 10:23 AM
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I've read Burr and 1876, but Kalki is much different. Personally I haven't read much American literature, since I'm from Europe, but IMO in last century it produced most masterpieces. For now, to me best are Herzog and Death of a Salesman.
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