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Re: What are you reading right now?

Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 9:31 pm
by Sweejak
I can feel it, too. Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I’m reading. Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I’d spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That’s rarely the case anymore. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel as if I’m always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google

Re: What are you reading right now?

Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 1:20 pm
by Cordelia
I'm needing an antidote to violence and despair in the news, so just started:

Beauty and the Soul, by Piero Ferrucci

http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/ ... p?id=19535

cracking the code

Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 4:34 pm
by annie aronburg
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Re: What are you reading right now?

Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 3:23 am
by Nordic
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Re: What are you reading right now?

Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 3:24 am
by Nordic
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Re: What are you reading right now?

Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 1:01 am
by Alaya
Re rereading the Alexandria Quartet for the upmteeth time.

Has Durrell fallen out of favor? Does anyone know why?

Re: What are you reading right now?

Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 5:04 pm
by lightningBugout

Re: What are you reading right now?

Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 4:58 am
by Hammer of Los
I read that article through from start to finish about five times, LBO. It didnt help my paranoid psychosis at all. In fact, quite the reverse. It's damn interesting though, isnt it? The guy really screwed with my head with that one, though. Sometimes I think that was part of the intent of publishing it online.

I was going to do a line by line dissection of that thing, but I grew too scared and paranoid, and left it alone.

I really hope you are well LBO, and I am very glad to see you still posting here. Take care man.

Re: What are you reading right now?

Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 12:02 pm
by Cosmic Cowbell

Re: What are you reading right now?

Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 1:30 am
by Alaya
How to Get Up and Get Dressed

by Anonymous

Re: What are you reading right now?

Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 4:19 am
by Sweejak
The Universality of National Socialism (The Mistaken Category of 'Fascism')

PDF
http://nationalism.org/library/science/ ... R-2002.pdf

Re: What are you reading right now?

Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 10:36 pm
by Jeff
Sweejak wrote:The Universality of National Socialism (The Mistaken Category of 'Fascism')

PDF
http://nationalism.org/library/science/ ... R-2002.pdf
I'm reading that now. Thanks. :tiphat:

Re: What are you reading right now?

Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 11:12 pm
by Sweejak
Here's a short video via Bill Moyers.
Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_99ZCeO7wfU

Re: What are you reading right now?

Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 1:34 am
by lightningBugout
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Re: What are you reading right now?

Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 1:51 am
by Sweejak
“ChesterBelloc” and the Fairy Tale of Distributism
The essay goes on to refute the title. Lots of choice quotes.
PDF
http://www.isi.org/books/content/423chap1.pdf