Oh joy! Books! Books I ordered, but that now appear like a comic gift to me from Benevolent Deities Inc. Happy sigh. Ahhhhh…. two for browsing at leisure, one for candy satisfaction: Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings Rob Brezsny Diva Lion says: Pronoia is a philosophy book of a most unusual stripe. It takes a lot of the ideas that Breszny has developed on the Free Will Astrology…
I’m in a mood for Flaubert. I love the way he searched endlessly for le mot juste (the exact – uniquely correct – word, the most precisely accurate language). Sometimes he found the words that evoked and carried more truth than any fact could possibly do. Love art. Of all lies, it is the least untrue. For none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and language is a cracked…
I’ve added a page here so that you can explore the books I added to Facebook even if you’re not on. You can sort by title or author to see the range. It defaults to last-added. I’m zombied-out and depressed about the car and my limited choices for what to do about it. So yesterday I added books to a Facebook application, and today I’m moving things around in my house. (Inner monologue: “We need more light in here. Should…
My friend Amanda innocently suggested that I join her in adding the visual bookshelf application to my Facebook page. Little did she know that it’s just the sort of thing I would latch onto when I’m bummed out. I guess it’s better than some of the alternatives. I’ve already listed well over a thousand books that I’ve already read, and more than a hundred that I want to read. It’s ridiculous, because that doesn’t even begin to really address the…