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After finishing "The Other Bennet Sister" with my partner, I came into reading this novel with a pre-existing affection for Mary Bennet. Her wise interjection is something I'd like to read up on further

I keep reading sentences the wrong way around, and also they keep carrying on when I don't expect them to. So reading aloud to my partner is a strenuous experience for both parties

Finished 'Funes, His Memory' - enjoyed. Been interested in unorthodox story structures; concept of the "spiral" or "explosion" which begins with a simple idea, but grows to impressive and unprecedented scales. Lots of these works seems to grapple with similar narrative formats...

Around 3/4 through the part on early mammals simulating environments. The section on rumination was particularly interesting. I think the volume of concepts to recall is difficult, like TD-learning and credit assignment, and I keep having to check the glossary. I've wholly forgotten the importance of the basal ganglia...

Reading this for a general interaction to the development of the brain / human learning. Not particularly interested in its applications for the future of AI. Just found it to be a decent introduction, and a good basis for studying Psych this September

Gave up on Emma last year, but already enjoying this much more. I struggle with 19th-century prose more than Shakespearean: I don't know why

Completed TGOFP: enjoyed the Library of Babel, Pierre Menard, Herbert Quain. Feel I need to I need to reread Tlön and The Circular Ruins. Definitely need to revisit The Lottery of Babylon (I skipped it)

The first chatterbox

‘For those who follow nature everything is easy and straightforward, whereas for those who fight against her life is just like rowing against the stream’

‘Nature endowed us with noble aspirations, and just as she gave certain animals ferocity…to us she gave a spirit of exalted ambition’

‘What utter foolishness it is to be afraid that those who have a bad name can rob you of a good one.’

I should have done an “incidentally” counter

TRUTH OR DARE NO NO NO

‘What’s the use of overcoming opponent after opponent in the wrestling or boxing rings if you can be overcome by your temper?’