Alvaro Zinos-Amaro: \ Rea-dying \

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Iris Murdoch // The interplay of thought and imagination is far superior to that of muscle and sinew. - Isaac Asimov // The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. - Emily Dickinson // A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. - Lao Tzu // Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will. - Friedrich Nietzsche // The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. - Francis Bacon // Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. - Soren Kierkegaard // The possible ranks higher than the actual. - Martin Heidegger //

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

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Read/listened to over the last two days:

Stories:
10. "Ph as in Phony (The Phony Ph.D.)" (Black Widowers Story #2) by Isaac Asimov (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 1972; Tales of the Black Widowers)
11. "…And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon" by Paul Di Filippo (The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction; Sci Fiction Nov 19, 2003)

Book: "Book 1" of the Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of Homer's The Iliad.

Audio: Lecture Two from the The Teaching Company 12-lecture course "The Iliad of Homer" by Professor Elizabeth Vandiver: "The Homeric Question" - 30 mins

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Tuesday, January 6, 2009

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