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In my print edition there are pages of italicized text. Impossible to read page after page of italics.

Huh—music is not an indexed word. Perhaps it’s good that it isn’t.

Written in 2014-2015 it’s already dated, yet in an interesting way, as all the speculation of what could happen has happened geopolitically.

As one reviewer noted, this cannot be a fast read. Sometimes one sentence is packed with meaning

There is an error in page numbering 130-139, which appear as 150-159., and happens again at 300, which reads 500, and continues to the end of the book.

A must-read for Millennials. It was written just as the generation was beginning (early 80s)

The book can sometimes have a dual-purpose as a philosophical text, with metaphors between the lines and in the margins.

An important chapter to read is "Anti-science", a topic that is now evergreen. The other chapters were a bit boring, and now dated.

It's interesting he didn't comment on the scale and magnitude of hurricanes, and how climate change is a part of a natural scaling pattern. That would have really useful information now. He did make an observation that lowering body temperature would increase life span, so perhaps the reverse is true with hurricanes where increases in water temperature scale them up and they spin faster and have a lower pressure.

Still in The Present

I love these essays, especially on Lichtenstein. I agree with his reading. He was distinctly different than Warhol, even though we see them as kindred.

Would make for an interesting documentary.

I'm in The Present. I find it extremely ironic that music is not an indexed word. Neither is "film", both what I would expect to be subject to perception and manipulation of time. Other terms relating to the temporal are used, but not in relation to rhythm or meter as used in music.

I'm in The Present. I find it extremely ironic that music is not an indexed word. Neither is "film", both what I would expect to be subject to perception and manipulation of time.

So far as interesting as would be expected for Dennett.

It's the end of February and Paul has just discovered Stockhausen and Luciano Berio.

Interesting book on the making of photos as cultural objects, something now fading in pixels.

A fun respite from dreary books.