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After making it through the wonderful and evocative preface & introduction in my last session and thoroughly enjoying carnival in Cologne afterwards, I was now ready to delve into the first chapter: "Weight of Numbers". What a way to start this book, but made easier by having frequent sub-chapter breaks to give it breathing room. (con’d)
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"Through little details, travellers' notes, a society stands revealed. The ways people eat, dress, or lodge, at the different levels of that society, are never a matter of indifference. And these snapshots can also point out contrasts and disparities between one society and another which are not all superficial. It is fascinating, and I do not think pointless to try and reassemble these imageries." agreeed.
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But it is not just the structure and his way with words that make, what could have otherwise become a dry math lecture, enjoyable. By continuously combing the topic at hand (statistical debates, climatic developments through the centuries, ...) with the impact they had on the material plane on local as well as global scale, he keeps the focus and attention sharply on his goal, never diverging too far. I‘m having a good time so far
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