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A J Ayer, The origins of pragmatism : studies in the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce and William James (London: Macmillan, 1974)
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D J Cunningham, Contribution to the Surface Anatomy of the Cerebral Hemispheres. With a chapter upon cranio-cerebral topography by V. Horsley, etc. (Dublin: Irish Royal Academy, 1892)
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'Utopia' Thomas More
Very very very interesting.
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Very very very interesting.
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"Ayer, then 77, confronted Mike Tyson harassing Naomi Campbell and demanded that Tyson stop. Tyson said: "Do you know who the fuck I am? I'm the heavyweight champion of the world," to which Ayer replied: "And I am the former Wykeham Professor of Logic. We are both pre-eminent in our field. I suggest that we talk about this like rational men." (Rogers, 344)"
ahhh, AJ.
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maya said:"light reading", eh?
afraid Orang Utan was right about Fortress Of Solitude.. it was almost TOO well written, felt like walking through beautifully-wrought treacle.
just polishing off the second Biskind - Down & Dirty Pictures -then going to switch back and forth between the aforementioned Occult book and William Goldman's Princess Bride.
just polishing off the second Biskind - Down & Dirty Pictures -then going to switch back and forth between the aforementioned Occult book and William Goldman's Princess Bride.
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maya said:"light reading", eh?
The question to ask is does he actually read the books he posts up or does he merely note the titles as he places them on a shelf..........
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maya said:well i dunno, but i love that font...!
It is a very 'serious' font isn't it?
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By some weird coincidence I seem to be reading a lot of musicians' (auto)biographies right now. First I finally started reading a book a friend lent me months ago, Neil and Me, written by Neil Young's father Scott Young. Then I bought Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis and finished that in about three days. Then my sister bought my dad Brother Ray (Ray Charles' autobiography) for Christmas so I promptly borrowed it. I'm only a few chapters into it but I find it annoying how it's written the way Ray Charles speaks (spelling things such as "till" or "bout" or "cept"). Other than that though it seems good.
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Just started 'Tainted Love', the new Stewart Home book.
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Non sibi sed omnibus
Bob Dylan - Chronicles Vol 1.
Good stuff.
Good stuff.
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I'm reading Is it just me or is everything shit? - perfect antidote to all that revolting yule-sent sentimentality, and just the book for a grumpy old cynic like me.
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I'm reading Lunar park by Bret Easton Ellis 
I'd definately recomend it. I've only just started reading it, but I'm finding it difficult to put down.
I'd definately recomend it. I've only just started reading it, but I'm finding it difficult to put down.
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miss giggles said:I'm reading Lunar park by Bret Easton Ellis
I'd definately recomend it. I've only just started reading it, but I'm finding it difficult to put down.
It starts brilliantly, but then... oh well, you'll soon find out.
Am reading Roth's "The Human Stain". Can't go wrong with a Roth.
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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Studies in Occultism (Pasadena, CA: Theosophical University Press, 1998)
i'm also having a pop at:
Francis Yates, The Occult Philosophy in the Elizbethan Age (London: Routledge, 2001)
i'm also having a pop at:
Francis Yates, The Occult Philosophy in the Elizbethan Age (London: Routledge, 2001)
Easter 1916, The Irish Rebellion by Charles Townsend
I'd recommend this one for anyone interested in Ireland. It does not give a flattering portrait of the Easter week rebels, Padraig Pearse comes off particularly badly, as silly a murderous pedant as the WWI era produced and even the level headed Connolly emerges as easily lead and grossly irresponsible. Heroic perhaps but dreamers quiet unlike the efficient Collins and slippery Dev that replaced them. The almost erased Bulmer Hobson gets a fair go for once as does Redmond's desperate gamble on Home Rule. Carson and the UVF are properly placed in an all Ireland context as a precursor to Republican militarism.
London gets slapped down even harder, describing English attitudes to Ireland as ignorant, arrogant and baffled; that's still true today, just listen to the unworldly guff that preening oaf Hain spouts.
The sober conclusion includes the view of Lenin that the Irish had their revolution too soon. Garret Fitzgeralds accurate assesment that the hasty anglo-phobic faith and fatherland nationalism of the likes of Pearse lead inevitably to an Ireland of two states that enshrined sectarianism and truncated both Irish identities. Hobson's traditionalist Fenian view that the rising should await popular support is perhaps vindicated, espeacially as the threat of Irish conscription in 1918 achieved this. I'm left thinking Home Rule was great missed opportunity and that the great European madness of WWI injured Ireland more than I'd realised.
I'd recommend this one for anyone interested in Ireland. It does not give a flattering portrait of the Easter week rebels, Padraig Pearse comes off particularly badly, as silly a murderous pedant as the WWI era produced and even the level headed Connolly emerges as easily lead and grossly irresponsible. Heroic perhaps but dreamers quiet unlike the efficient Collins and slippery Dev that replaced them. The almost erased Bulmer Hobson gets a fair go for once as does Redmond's desperate gamble on Home Rule. Carson and the UVF are properly placed in an all Ireland context as a precursor to Republican militarism.
London gets slapped down even harder, describing English attitudes to Ireland as ignorant, arrogant and baffled; that's still true today, just listen to the unworldly guff that preening oaf Hain spouts.
The sober conclusion includes the view of Lenin that the Irish had their revolution too soon. Garret Fitzgeralds accurate assesment that the hasty anglo-phobic faith and fatherland nationalism of the likes of Pearse lead inevitably to an Ireland of two states that enshrined sectarianism and truncated both Irish identities. Hobson's traditionalist Fenian view that the rising should await popular support is perhaps vindicated, espeacially as the threat of Irish conscription in 1918 achieved this. I'm left thinking Home Rule was great missed opportunity and that the great European madness of WWI injured Ireland more than I'd realised.
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yeh, i've seen good reviews of this, but i'm waiting for it to come out in paperback.oi2002 said:
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