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The Finder by Elizabeth Spencer
Desire by James Stephens

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The Miraculous Revenge by George Bernard Shaw

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6. Pecuniary Canons of Taste

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7. Dress as an Expression of the Pecuniary Culture

middle of Chapter 6: 6. Pecuniary Canons of Taste

audio: 7:14 left

Finished "Dante and the Lobster" ***
Starting "Fingal"

Starting Chapter Five: The Paris Years 1928–30

Finished:
Chapter 24 in the audiobook, Chapter 5: "The Pecuniary Standard of Living (of the actual work)"

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Chapter 25 in the audiobook, Chapter 6: "Pecuniary Canons of Taste"

Starting Chapter 98

Starting Chapter 87

Finished:
The Haunted House by Luigi Pirandello

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The Finder by Elizabeth Spencer

Starting Chapter 84

Starting Heat 7 of 7: Chapter 78

Starting Chapter 62

Finished introductions, background biography, summaries of all chapters, and Chapters 1-4 of the actual work:
1. Introductory
2. Pecuniary Emulation
3. Conspicuous Leisure
4. Conspicuous Consumption

Starting Chapter 24 in the audiobook, Chapter 5: The Pecuniary Standard of Living (of the actual work)

Finished:
The Times My Father Died by Yehuda Amichai

Starting:
The Haunted House by Luigi Pirandello

starting Chapter 59

Starting Chapter 51

Starting Chapter 48

Finished Chapter 40:
Big reveal, Pineapple Cabaret escape idea.

Starting Chapter 41

Finished commentary on Book X:
"The Republic which seems to give a completed teaching about politics
and the soul, ends with a return to philosophic doubt, to the conviction
that one^ opinions are open to unanswered, if ot unanswerable, questions.
In one sense one can even say that the book has taught us nothing
other than the necessity of philosophy and its priority and superiority
to the political life."

Finished Book 10:
Socrates criticizes imitative, tragic or comic, Homeric poetry. warns that dramatic poetry feeds irrational, emotional mind & breaks down self-control. outlines new poetry that supports the philosophic life. He gives the principle Aristotle developed in the Poetics, which is embodied in the works of Dante & Shakespeare. It is still poetry, but poetry which points beyond itself.

Summary of Book 9:
just person is happier than unjust person who spends his money, deceives, steals, lives in constant fear, poverty, and misery.
Only philosopher experiences all 3 kinds of pleasure (profit, honor, truth) ; knows the nature of true reality, soqualified to judge which life is best.
Pleasures (reason, truth) are real & stable; appetitive pleasures of unjust are illusory and never truly satisfy.

Finished Book IX and commentary

Starting Book X

Starting Chapter 38

Starting Chapter 35

Starting Chapter 29

Starting Section Heat 3 of 7: Chapter 22

Finished Heat 1 of 7:
Chapters 3 and 4

Starting Heat 1 of 7:
Chapter 5