rooneymcnibnug commented on The Portable Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
Chugging through Part 3 of Zarathustra
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rooneymcnibnug commented on The Portable Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
First part of Thus Spoke Zarathustra was pretty good. I especially liked the end - it really served as proof to what Kaufman mentions in the intro of this collection about Nietzsche being a “bridge between positivism and existentialism”, which I think is much needed these days.
rooneymcnibnug commented on The Portable Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
Great forward by Walter Kaufman, of course. On the segments so far.. well, the man sure could aphorism.
Looking forward to finally reading Thus Spoke Zarathustra in full here soon.
rooneymcnibnug rated Infinitely Full of Hope: 3 stars
rooneymcnibnug reviewed Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon (duplicate)
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5 stars
Finishing reading this really validates Pynchon being my favorite fiction author. Massive in the way the Gravity's Rainbow is, but more focused on key themes and the two protagonists here. The bond formulated between Mason and Dixon feels so real and beautiful.
I love the tall-tale untrustworthy narrator in this, and the idea of half-truths scattered through out bonkers story pieces.
This is truly a treasure of the mood of an early America (just before the Revolutionary War kicks off), in way that it depicts real historical and social feelings of the time so richly and remains real. Pynchon continued to be the master of this type of thing, I guess, and the idea of the Preterite is very alive here still (and even more close to its religious origins).
Maybe I'll do a blog post or more thorough writeup on this one sometime. There's a lot to peel away!
rooneymcnibnug commented on Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon (duplicate)
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A man was maddened by the ticking of a pocket watch so he ate it.
rooneymcnibnug started reading The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for …
Started listening to the audiobook of this while doing yardwork and stuff.
rooneymcnibnug commented on Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon (duplicate)
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Chapter 29 was very very good - really brought the feel and paranoia of early American parapolitics in poetic fashion.
rooneymcnibnug started reading Learning Perl by Randal L. Schwartz
Learning Perl, also known as the llama book, is a tutorial book for the Perl …
Taking a step back from some other technical stuff to get sharper with Perl by beginning this from the start (never finished through it) while I dig through a bunch of code in parallel :)
rooneymcnibnug commented on Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon (duplicate)
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Reading this after V is very interesting - much more of a "chill" experience while still getting to some very core "mortal coil" subject matter. I found the recent pieces with the interactions between Mason and his father touching.
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The most romantic thing you can do to someone is save them from a massive wheel of cheese flattening you from higher grounds.
rooneymcnibnug commented on Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon (duplicate)
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Descriptions of the landscapes, towns, and their weather have all been incredible. The transitions between the narration by Revd. Cherrycoke to the evens with Mason and/or Dixon have all been so well executed.
I laughed really hard at the part where Mason and Dixon were sitting in two different rooms, trying to have a religious experience in solitude/"feel god"
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Great to see Pynchon doing 18th century style while keeping his flavor so far. And there is a talking dog contemplating his own existence within the first 40 pages so… I think I will probably like this.
rooneymcnibnug rated Chess Story: 4 stars
Chess Story by Stefan Zweig (New York Review Books Classics)
Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile …
rooneymcnibnug finished reading Chess Story by Stefan Zweig (New York Review Books Classics)
Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final …
Nice short read, crossing boundaries between the analytical and the existential. Was looking for something chess-related and this itched that scratch, but also was very emotional. People pour themselves over the board given the right circumstances.