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 //

Thursday, December 24, 2009

\ Rea-dying \

Read/listened to since the last update:

Stories:

401. "Troublesolving" by Tim Pratt (Subterranean Press, Fall 2009)

402. "The Horrid Glory of Its Wings" by Elizabeth Bear (Tor.com, December 2009)

Books:

Book #33 of '09 was Jonathan Strahan's Eclipse 3. A couple of the stories resonated strongly with me, but on the whole this volume doesn't eclipse the glories of vols 1 or 2.

Book #34 of '09 was Bruce of the Blue Nile by Robert Silverberg, a fun, fascinating biography of Scottish pioneer of exploration James Bruce and his adventures in tracing the source of the Blue Nile.

I've also started four other books.

Alvaro Zinos-Amaro

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Thursday, December 24, 2009

\ Rea-dying \

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