Deep in a philosophy hole, but I enjoy tons of other non-fiction books and a lot of fiction as well.
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The end stuck the landing really well on this one. Liked it a lot for very early Pynchon - you could really feel the formulations of ideas used with his later works, albeit these are a bit more scattery.
From the best-selling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics comes a new book about the mind-bending nature of the …
Poetry is not communication with angels or with the “subconscious”. It is communication with the guts, genitals and five portals of sense.
— V. by Thomas Pynchon (duplicate) (Page 297)
“ Let me interject for a moment - What you guys are referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is
Lots of great ruminations on history and rich visuals of perceived landscapes of time, and how people graft themselves to different arrangements of time or try and transcend them. I’m liking the surging back in and out of scenes with The Whole Sick Crew a lot.
People read what news they wanted to and each accordingly built his own rathouse of history’s rags and straws.
— V. by Thomas Pynchon (duplicate) (Page 209)
Originally published in Russian in 1930. Nabokov released an English translation in 1964. The novel is a fictionalized account of …
Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile …
This collection of essays reflect Ngugi’s continuing interests and enthusiasms. His choice of writers is original, making us look again …
