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 //

Sunday, December 27, 2009

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Read/listened to since the last update:

Books:

Book #35 of '09 was The Man Who Found Nineveh by Robert Silverberg, a thoroughly engaging and well-researched biography of (among other things) archaeologist Austen Henry Layard.

(For more on this limestone relief, see here.)

Alvaro Zinos-Amaro

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Sunday, December 27, 2009

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