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Stamp quickly and pass through a wall of iron
Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like. But it is important never to tell this to young people as it is something that would be harmful if incorrectly understood.
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Box of Shakespeare
Every year my jolly friend A.E.W-M and I attempt to go on some sort of adventure to a new city together. One trip ago we were kind of half broke and having to do something on the cheap and not too far away, so we decided to go to Columbus the weekend of S.P.A.C.E. (a small but cute comic-con- I got a blue bunny there that is still decorating my ( Read more... ) -
Let’s get crossed out and come to harm
Briefly considered picking up some more Stephenson, but decided to keep that ended on a high note for a while. On to Kevin Murphy’s A Year at the Movies: One Man’s Filmgoing Odyssey which was nice and cosy like a blanket. I laughed and I cried and even got a tummy ache on the last chapter where he rips on the Tolkien fans. Took a while to get ( Read more... ) -
Neal Stephenson
A few months ago on a bookstore wander, I reached down to the bottom shelf and picked up a mass market paperback copy of Cryptonomicon. Cheap, thick and filled to the brim with tiny smeary print. Yay!
The moment that sticks is in the beginning part when the current Waterhouse avatar is standing in the middle of some vast math problem with a fanny ( Read more... )
