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Euclid's Elements
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"Transcribing in a blank notebook with a pencil, compass and a straight edge. Currently finished Proposition 24." Jul 11, 2024 08:39PM

 
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progress:  On page 20. "So much easier to read than the old type of Byrne’s reprint of the first six books. This has 13! And the definition, postulates are clearly referenced with abbreviations and symbols. Absorbing the first few Propositions is intuitively easier mentally except for the yellow lines are a bit faint against the white text book pages. Looking forward to reading and learning more…." Jun 16, 2024 07:14PM

 
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Terence McKenna
“It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.”
Terence McKenna, The Archaic Revival

Robert Louis Stevenson
“It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.”
Robert Louis Stevenson

Joseph Campbell
“You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes to you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. This is the place of creative incubation. At first you may find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred place and use it, something eventually will happen.”
Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

Ansel Adams
“Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.”
Ansel Adams

David Graeber
“Freuchen tells how one day, after coming home hungry from an unsuccessful walrus-hunting expedition, he found one of the successful hunters dropping off several hundred pounds of meat. He thanked him profusely. The man objected indignantly:
"Up in our country we are human!" said the hunter. "And since we are human we help each other. We don't like to hear anybody say thanks for that. What I get today you may get tomorrow. Up here we say that by gifts one makes slaves and by whips one makes dogs.

... The refusal to calculate credits and debits can be found throughout the anthropological literature on egalitarian hunting societies. Rather than seeing himself as human because he could make economic calculations, the hunter insisted that being truly human meant refusing to make such calculations, refusing to measure or remember who had given what to whom, for the precise reason that doing so would inevitably create a world where we began "comparing power with power, measuring, calculating" and reducing each other to slaves or dogs through debt. It's not that he, like untold millions of similar egalitarian spirits throughout history, was unaware that humans have a propensity to calculate. If he wasn't aware of it, he could not have said what he did. Of course we have a propensity to calculate. We have all sorts of propensities. In any real-life situation, we have propensities that drive us in several different contradictory directions simultaneously. No one is more real than any other. The real question is which we take as the foundation of our humanity, and therefore, make the basis of our civilization.”
David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years

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