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| The list of Faulkner's classic novels typically includes The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom, Light in August. I'd definitely add Go Down, Moses to the top tier, and, having revisited The Hamlet after many years, I'm tempted to add it. Like GDM, ...more | |
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| The photographic ur-history of the Beats (best defined as "people who knew Allen Ginsberg") assembled by chronicler Ann Charters. If you love that scene, this book is a little treasure trove of images from the period before On the Road and Howl marke ...more | |
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| Beautiful pocket sized collection of three of the most important texts of Zen (and Buddhism more generally). The translations are smooth and clear (though the Diamond Sutra is inherently complicated stylistically because of the Zen teachlng style at ...more | |
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| I came to Hopi Tales of Destruction in a circituous route via the movie Koyanisqaatsi, organized around Philip Glass's soundtrack/symphony. The term means something like "life out of balance," but it's a far more encompassing vision of a world on the ...more | |
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Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
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| Carroll is a strong proponent of the Many Worlds approach to quantum mechanics and this book does a good job laying out the details of the approach and the reasons for his position. I've read quite a few books in the general area of "what we kind of ...more | |
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“....Charles laughingly observed,'Gospel and the blues are really, if you break it down, almost the same thing. It's just a question of whether you're talkin' about a woman or God.”
― Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul
― Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul
“Rarely bothering to temper his language, Wallace made the racial subtexts of issues like busing and promiscuity clear. His strong showings in the Wisconsin and Michigan primaries demonstrated unambiguously that race was not simply a Southern issue. Any candidate capable of tapping the fears of white working-class males, especially those living in districts bordered by black ghettos, had an excellent chance of undercutting the traditional Democratic coalition.”
― A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race And The Soul Of America
― A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race And The Soul Of America
“It's been forty years since Sam Cooke promised that a change was gonna come. Change came and change is coming still. Our history's still being lived. What it will be is up to us. Holler if ya hear me. p. 361.”
― A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race & the Soul of America
― A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race & the Soul of America
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