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I could use the same lines of logic to convert to Islam

Respect dropped another notch when I read that line about Anglo saxons supporting the crusades due to their machismo culture

Don’t agree with so many points… I leave aside the philosophical arguments although I dispute many of them, because from experience I’m not able to connect to God via intellectual twists and turns but rather confrontation of simple and direct truths. So after leaving that aside, the simple fundamentals of this particular Presbyterian doctrine are what remains, and I find them extremely difficult to accept too.

INCREDIBLE AND I LOVE MARQUEZ BUT I AM SO VERY ANGRY

Within the first 20 pages I was greatly annoyed and aggrieved by

So far very good… so well written and I’m so refreshed and relieved to read Singlit that explores some aspect of the human condition other than the most mundane family dramas with Channel 8 plots that boil down to miscommunication (sorry a rant on bad popular Singlit I’ve read)

Using bread-and-butter provisions to position an organisation as the people’s friend to ensure their silent compliance with injustices carried out against “others” sounds kind of familiar

It’s hard to take an anarchist seriously when he’s so intentionally and blissfully unaware of the reality of systems of privilege and power. However, I take him up at his offer not to let his personal shortcomings mar the truth of his writing. Even the most insufferable genius shall speak words of fundamental truth now and then.

The heart of the matter is articulated with stunning clarity. The rest, I am afraid, even for his times, astoundingly ignorant and so arrayed out of a desire to elevate himself, even among other white men. But for my love of how he attacks the fundamentals of modern life, which is basically unchanged since his time, I would have stopped reading.

Devastated once again

Let me live here

Probably giving it 4 stars but the fault is all mine… I don’t quite understand the terms and many environments I’ve never been… such that not even a basic image is conjured as background to his wonderfully evocative writing… desert, Island, and the exact loch I know. But I spent so much time researching what even a moor is. Ridge, I am not sure if I know… but it all compels me to see more of the world.

I didn’t want to google the places except when I really didn’t understand what the hell they were like a moor… bit hard to understand because the phrases are so specific, but yet simple you know? Because this is the word for what they are… but enthralling, so many threads for me to pull at truth and feelings I myself have felt out in nature. the way he imagines himself walking in micro landscapes too lol

How does everyone in power always cede authority to the one woman who has always failed humanity at the critical hour again and again?!??! She’s just a witness and not an actor… her only 2 actions came at the start of the book (proposing the staircase project & sacrificing her friend who loved her). She sucks

SCREAMING

As we go further out in time it’s getting harder to relate to… but I’m glad the logical fundamentals are still very recognisable I.e. the circumstances are different but once they’re accepted, the social patterns that follow are logical and easier to understand etc

This is too insanely detailed, he’s definitely seen this world and came back. Even the racist inflections upon which modern society and international law is predicated is presented onstage, not posturing, not “raising awareness”, just is. And that’s on top of the insanely thoroughly researched hard science fiction. I am ridiculously impressed. I don’t know why I gave the first book only 4 stars

Im so in awe of what I’m learning… and I thought I would not like the format but it really works quite well… it’s just so crazy to think of how Humboldt was the first person to see these beautiful relationships in nature… he loved to see truths and patterns and was so piercingly clear about the way things are over the stories people tell… and his love for nature is so true and beautiful…

It really reads like a mind who’s gone to the frontiers of human experience and came back to report on the nothing and everything