My family is from the Budapest area and left around the time of World War I. I was in a bookstore one afternoon and stumbled across this book which I thought might provide an interesting glimpse of what my great great grandfather's life was like. If you're interested in Budapest, this is only English language book I know of that covers this time period. And it's remarkably good, you can almost smell the market streets and hear the murmurs from the cafe bars...
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7771183", "pages": "255", "publish_date": "1990", "publish_place": "New York", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL18791843M/Budapest_1900", "rating": "4", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/budapest-1900-a-historical-portrait-of-a.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 2, "fields": {"title": "V.", "author_name": "Thomas Pynchon", "slug": "v", "read_date": "2001-03-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "3499137305", "body_markdown": "Who or what is V?", "body_html": "Who or what is V?
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5912546", "pages": "528", "publish_date": "December 1, 1994", "publish_place": "", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL9048140M/V.", "rating": "4", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/v.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 3, "fields": {"title": "Gravity's Rainbow", "author_name": "Thomas Pynchon", "slug": "gravitys-rainbow", "read_date": "2001-05-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0224009605", "body_markdown": "What is there to say? One of the best books of the twentieth century.", "body_html": "What is there to say? One of the best books of the twentieth century.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5912498", "pages": "760", "publish_date": "1973", "publish_place": "London", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL5230169M/Gravity's_rainbow", "rating": "5", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/gravitys-rainbow.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 4, "fields": {"title": "Under the Jaguar Sun", "author_name": "Italo Calvino", "slug": "under-the-jaguar-sun", "read_date": "2006-08-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0156927942", "body_markdown": "Calvino's unfinished collection of short stories. The plan I guess was to have a story for each of the senses. It's good, but clearly unfinished.", "body_html": "Calvino's unfinished collection of short stories. The plan I guess was to have a story for each of the senses. It's good, but clearly unfinished.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7770341", "pages": "86", "publish_date": "1988", "publish_place": "San Diego", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24750414M/Under_the_jaguar_sun", "rating": "3", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/under-the-jaguar-sun.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 5, "fields": {"title": "The Professor and the Madman ", "author_name": "Simon Winchester", "slug": "the-professor-and-the-madman", "read_date": "2007-07-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0060839783", "body_markdown": "The subtitle encapsulates this on quite nicely: \"A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary.\" Absolutely fascinating history of the making of the Oxford English Dictionary, which quite frankly boggles my mind whenever I stop and consider what a massive undertaking it was. Winchester does a great job of making the story come alive and setting straight some facts that have been twisted over the years.", "body_html": "The subtitle encapsulates this on quite nicely: \"A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary.\" Absolutely fascinating history of the making of the Oxford English Dictionary, which quite frankly boggles my mind whenever I stop and consider what a massive undertaking it was. Winchester does a great job of making the story come alive and setting straight some facts that have been twisted over the years.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7771397", "pages": "288", "publish_date": "July 5, 2005", "publish_place": "", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7282828M/The_Professor_and_the_Madman", "rating": "4", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/the-professor-and-the-madman.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 6, "fields": {"title": "Ninety-two in the Shade", "author_name": "Thomas McGuane", "slug": "ninety-two-in-the-shade", "read_date": "2007-03-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0679752897", "body_markdown": "McGuane gets compared to Pynchon quite a bit, which I've never understood save perhaps the sheer madcap pace of language and witticisms, but whereas with Pynchon these come in bursts, with McGuane they’re pretty much sustained. Perhaps that’s why McGuane writes shorter books — you can only keep up that pace for so long, both as a writer and a reader. <em>The Bushwhacked Piano</em> remains one of my favorite books and this one is equally good, but somehow too much the same, the same tragic inevitability that makes <em>Piano</em> compelling occasionally strikes me a tedious here. But it's still a fun short read, definitely worth while if you haven't already", "body_html": "McGuane gets compared to Pynchon quite a bit, which I've never understood save perhaps the sheer madcap pace of language and witticisms, but whereas with Pynchon these come in bursts, with McGuane they’re pretty much sustained. Perhaps that’s why McGuane writes shorter books — you can only keep up that pace for so long, both as a writer and a reader. <em>The Bushwhacked Piano</em> remains one of my favorite books and this one is equally good, but somehow too much the same, the same tragic inevitability that makes <em>Piano</em> compelling occasionally strikes me a tedious here. But it's still a fun short read, definitely worth while if you haven't already
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7771074", "pages": "197", "publish_date": "1995", "publish_place": "New York", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL1116694M/Ninety-two_in_the_shade", "rating": "4", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/ninety-two-in-the-shade.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 7, "fields": {"title": "Suttree", "author_name": "Cormac McCarthy", "slug": "suttree", "read_date": "2007-02-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0679736328", "body_markdown": "Though I do intend to get back to the Proust, I wound up one day with this novel in my hands and since I've been meaning to read Cormac Mccarthy for years, I thought why not. Although you could say, as the back cover does, that Mccarthy is part Faulkner and part O'Conner, this book is something else entirely. Southern Gothic at moments.. but then there's someone fucking a watermelon the next minute. It's good, very good. Wish I'd read him sooner.", "body_html": "Though I do intend to get back to the Proust, I wound up one day with this novel in my hands and since I've been meaning to read Cormac Mccarthy for years, I thought why not. Although you could say, as the back cover does, that Mccarthy is part Faulkner and part O'Conner, this book is something else entirely. Southern Gothic at moments.. but then there's someone fucking a watermelon the next minute. It's good, very good. Wish I'd read him sooner.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7770963", "pages": "480", "publish_date": "May 5, 1992", "publish_place": "", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7700025M/Suttree", "rating": "4", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/suttree.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 8, "fields": {"title": "Against the Day", "author_name": "Thomas Pynchon", "slug": "against-the-day", "read_date": "2006-11-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "159420120X", "body_markdown": "I needed to take a break from Proust and I happened to be in a book store the day this came out so I went for it. You never know what to expect from a Pynchon novel but almost three things are guaranteed: weird sex, contrary-to-fact occurrences and bad songs. Against the Day has them all and it the best Pynchon book since the last Pynchon book. I'm worried this could be last book we get from Pynchon, but hopefully he has time for another before he too travels on. One interesting thing about this book for me is that large portions of it take place exactly where I traveled earlier this year in Croatia, Hungary and Slovenia. When I was grabbing the cover photo from Amazon I couldn't help but notice that the top book by customers who bought Against the Day was The Aeneid — Long book lovers unite!", "body_html": "I needed to take a break from Proust and I happened to be in a book store the day this came out so I went for it. You never know what to expect from a Pynchon novel but almost three things are guaranteed: weird sex, contrary-to-fact occurrences and bad songs. Against the Day has them all and it the best Pynchon book since the last Pynchon book. I'm worried this could be last book we get from Pynchon, but hopefully he has time for another before he too travels on. One interesting thing about this book for me is that large portions of it take place exactly where I traveled earlier this year in Croatia, Hungary and Slovenia. When I was grabbing the cover photo from Amazon I couldn't help but notice that the top book by customers who bought Against the Day was The Aeneid — Long book lovers unite!
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7770853", "pages": "1085", "publish_date": "November 21, 2006", "publish_place": "", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL8875965M/Against_the_Day", "rating": "5", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/against-the-day.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 9, "fields": {"title": "The Guermantes Way", "author_name": "Marcel Proust", "slug": "the-guermantes-way", "read_date": "2007-02-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0670033170", "body_markdown": "So it goes and goes. You either like 5,000 page novels or don't. And to think Proust wanted the whole thing bound up as one book...", "body_html": "So it goes and goes. You either like 5,000 page novels or don't. And to think Proust wanted the whole thing bound up as one book...
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7770776", "pages": "619", "publish_date": "2004", "publish_place": "New York", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL3693115M/The_Guermantes_way", "rating": "5", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/the-guermantes-way.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 10, "fields": {"title": "In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower", "author_name": "Marcel Proust", "slug": "in-the-shadow-of-young-girls-in-flower", "read_date": "2007-01-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0670032778", "body_markdown": "The second volume started off a little slow, but even when he's getting side tracked Proust is infinitely more interesting than 90 percent of the writers you'll ever read. Once this one takes off it's even better than the first.", "body_html": "The second volume started off a little slow, but even when he's getting side tracked Proust is infinitely more interesting than 90 percent of the writers you'll ever read. Once this one takes off it's even better than the first.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7770732", "pages": "558", "publish_date": "2004", "publish_place": "New York", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL3690141M/In_the_shadow_of_young_girls_in_flower", "rating": "5", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/in-the-shadow-of-young-girls-in-flower.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 11, "fields": {"title": "Swann's Way", "author_name": "Marcel Proust", "slug": "swanns-way", "read_date": "2006-09-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "067003245X", "body_markdown": "Okay, here we go... volume one of six and already the best work of fiction I've ever read. Proust's language is alive in ways that very few writers ever achieve (make sure you get the penguin series that was recently re-translated by a number of authors, this first one by Lydia Davis).", "body_html": "Okay, here we go... volume one of six and already the best work of fiction I've ever read. Proust's language is alive in ways that very few writers ever achieve (make sure you get the penguin series that was recently re-translated by a number of authors, this first one by Lydia Davis).
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7770700", "pages": "468", "publish_date": "2003", "publish_place": "New York", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL3686365M/Swann's_way", "rating": "5", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/swanns-way.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 13, "fields": {"title": "Nicaraguan Sketches", "author_name": "Julio Cortazar", "slug": "nicaraguan-sketches", "read_date": "2006-11-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0393306429", "body_markdown": "Julio Cortazar is a giant. You know you're good when Borges sings your praises. But this book was not up to par compared to Hopscotch or Blow Up. Without having seen a Spanish copy my guess is that its a very poor translation. Nevertheless it has some gems in the last two essays. And it's timely now that Daniel Ortega has been re-elected.", "body_html": "Julio Cortazar is a giant. You know you're good when Borges sings your praises. But this book was not up to par compared to Hopscotch or Blow Up. Without having seen a Spanish copy my guess is that its a very poor translation. Nevertheless it has some gems in the last two essays. And it's timely now that Daniel Ortega has been re-elected.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7770594", "pages": "142", "publish_date": "1990", "publish_place": "", "openlib_url": "", "rating": "3", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/nicaraguan-sketches.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 14, "fields": {"title": "Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays", "author_name": "David Foster Wallace", "slug": "consider-the-lobster-and-other-essays", "read_date": "2006-11-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0316156116", "body_markdown": "I'm a little disappointed in this collection, there are some standout pieces, notably the essay on grammar and usage, but the rest lack a certain earnestness that marks his better writing.", "body_html": "I'm a little disappointed in this collection, there are some standout pieces, notably the essay on grammar and usage, but the rest lack a certain earnestness that marks his better writing.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7770537", "pages": "352", "publish_date": "2005", "publish_place": "New York", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL3397783M/Consider_the_lobster_and_other_essays", "rating": "4", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/consider-the-lobster-and-other-essays.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 15, "fields": {"title": "Bird of Life, Bird of Death: A Naturalist's Journey Through a Land of Political Turmoil", "author_name": "Jonathan Evan Maslow", "slug": "bird-of-life-bird-of-death-a-naturalists-journe", "read_date": "2006-11-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "067152738X", "body_markdown": "From the NYTimes Review: In his introduction, Mr. Maslow suggests the book is "a kind of essay in political ornithology." While correct in believing this is "a field that does not quite exist, at least yet," he demonstrates why naturalists have had to become politically engaged: increasingly, it seems, everything is in peril.", "body_html": "From the NYTimes Review: In his introduction, Mr. Maslow suggests the book is "a kind of essay in political ornithology." While correct in believing this is "a field that does not quite exist, at least yet," he demonstrates why naturalists have had to become politically engaged: increasingly, it seems, everything is in peril.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7770476", "pages": "249", "publish_date": "1986", "publish_place": "New York", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL2541023M/Bird_of_life_bird_of_death", "rating": "4", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/bird-of-life-bird-of-death-a-naturalists.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 16, "fields": {"title": "The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey", "author_name": "Salman Rushdie", "slug": "the-jaguar-smile-a-nicaraguan-journey", "read_date": "2006-09-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0312422784", "body_markdown": "In 1986 Rushdie traveled to Nicaragua as a guest of the Sandinista government, these essays (his only published non-fiction to date) were published shortly after his visit.", "body_html": "In 1986 Rushdie traveled to Nicaragua as a guest of the Sandinista government, these essays (his only published non-fiction to date) were published shortly after his visit.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7770431", "pages": "176", "publish_date": "September 1, 2003", "publish_place": "", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL9312182M/The_Jaguar_Smile", "rating": "3", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/the-jaguar-smile-a-nicaraguan-journey.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 17, "fields": {"title": "The Best American Science Writing 2005 ", "author_name": "Alan Lightman", "slug": "the-best-american-science-writing-2005", "read_date": "2006-10-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0060726423", "body_markdown": "Great collection of essays. I'm not sure why but I've been in a non-fiction mood lately.", "body_html": "Great collection of essays. I'm not sure why but I've been in a non-fiction mood lately.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7770286", "pages": "300", "publish_date": "2000", "publish_place": "New York, NY", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL22166637M/The_best_American_science_writing", "rating": "4", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/the-best-american-science-writing-2005.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 18, "fields": {"title": "Absalom, Absalom!", "author_name": "William Faulkner", "slug": "absalom-absalom", "read_date": "2006-11-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0679732187", "body_markdown": "Somehow I graduated from college a literature major without ever having read Faulkner, a terrible, terrible oversight on my part.", "body_html": "Somehow I graduated from college a literature major without ever having read Faulkner, a terrible, terrible oversight on my part.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7770230", "pages": "313", "publish_date": "1990", "publish_place": "New York", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL1888757M/Absalom_Absalom!", "rating": "4", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/absalom-absalom.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 19, "fields": {"title": "77 Dream Songs", "author_name": "John Berryman", "slug": "77-dream-songs", "read_date": "2005-01-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0571207693", "body_markdown": "Keats said beauty is truth, but then talking of beauty fell out of fashion and creating the beautiful fell out with it. Perhaps we need to learn how to dream again.", "body_html": "Keats said beauty is truth, but then talking of beauty fell out of fashion and creating the beautiful fell out with it. Perhaps we need to learn how to dream again.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7770183", "pages": "1", "publish_date": "April 9, 2001", "publish_place": "", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7857702M/77_Dream_Songs", "rating": "4", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/77-dream-songs.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 20, "fields": {"title": "Petersburg", "author_name": "Andrei Bely", "slug": "petersburg", "read_date": "2006-03-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0253202191", "body_markdown": "The famous political thinker and essayist Isaiah Berlin described Bely as "a man of strange and unheard-of insights - magical and a holy fool in the tradition of Russian Orthodoxy." One of my favorite books.", "body_html": "The famous political thinker and essayist Isaiah Berlin described Bely as "a man of strange and unheard-of insights - magical and a holy fool in the tradition of Russian Orthodoxy." One of my favorite books.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7770114", "pages": "384", "publish_date": "March 1979", "publish_place": "", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL9706385M/Petersburg", "rating": "4", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/petersburg.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 21, "fields": {"title": "The Fever Coast Log: At Sea in Central America", "author_name": "Gordon Chaplin", "slug": "the-fever-coast-log-at-sea-in-central-america", "read_date": "2006-08-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0671767291", "body_markdown": "A travelogue of a voyage from Miami to the Panama canal. Written in the spirit of Graham Greene and the like. It's okay. Not one of my favorites.", "body_html": "A travelogue of a voyage from Miami to the Panama canal. Written in the spirit of Graham Greene and the like. It's okay. Not one of my favorites.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7770042", "pages": "229", "publish_date": "January 1993", "publish_place": "", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL9897100M/The_Fever_Coast_Log", "rating": "3", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/the-fever-coast-log-at-sea-in-central-am.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 22, "fields": {"title": "Guns, Germs, and Steel", "author_name": "Jared Diamond", "slug": "guns-germs-and-steel", "read_date": "2005-05-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0739467352", "body_markdown": "One of the most original ideas I've come across in recent memory, erudite and extremely well written for a "popular" science book.", "body_html": "One of the most original ideas I've come across in recent memory, erudite and extremely well written for a "popular" science book.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7769964", "pages": "", "publish_date": "2005", "publish_place": "", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7917109M/Guns_Germs_and_Steel", "rating": "4", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/guns-germs-and-steel.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 23, "fields": {"title": "Distance from Loved Ones ", "author_name": "James Tate", "slug": "distance-from-loved-ones", "read_date": "2006-08-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0819511919", "body_markdown": "This collection of poems is less whimsical than other Tate works I've read and consequently somewhat more compelling both in depth and in those moments of whimsy that do punctuate the more brooding tone.", "body_html": "This collection of poems is less whimsical than other Tate works I've read and consequently somewhat more compelling both in depth and in those moments of whimsy that do punctuate the more brooding tone.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7769924", "pages": "55", "publish_date": "1990", "publish_place": "Hanover, NH", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL18358957M/Distance_from_loved_ones", "rating": "4", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/distance-from-loved-ones.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 24, "fields": {"title": "House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories", "author_name": "Yasunari Kawabata", "slug": "house-of-the-sleeping-beauties-and-other-stories", "read_date": "2005-01-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0870114263", "body_markdown": "From another review: "true artists do not need to be told what beauty is, nor do they need to tell anybody else. They know it when they see it, and they can create it like a silkworm creates silk."", "body_html": "From another review: "true artists do not need to be told what beauty is, nor do they need to tell anybody else. They know it when they see it, and they can create it like a silkworm creates silk."
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7769880", "pages": "149", "publish_date": "1980", "publish_place": "Tokyo", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL15306384M/House_of_the_sleeping_beauties_and_other_stories", "rating": "4", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/house-of-the-sleeping-beauties-and-other.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 25, "fields": {"title": "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror: Poems ", "author_name": "John Ashbery", "slug": "self-portrait-in-a-convex-mirror-poems", "read_date": "2004-01-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0140586687", "body_markdown": "There is only one John Ashbery. I feel compelled to re-read this book every so often, generally about once a year and I never fail to find something new. He's also one of the great readers, if you ever get the chance to see him read don't miss out.", "body_html": "There is only one John Ashbery. I feel compelled to re-read this book every so often, generally about once a year and I never fail to find something new. He's also one of the great readers, if you ever get the chance to see him read don't miss out.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7769806", "pages": "96", "publish_date": "January 1, 1990", "publish_place": "", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7356987M/Self-Portrait_in_a_Convex_Mirror", "rating": "5", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/self-portrait-in-a-convex-mirror-poems.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 26, "fields": {"title": "The Dead Father", "author_name": "Donald Barthelme", "slug": "the-dead-father", "read_date": "2005-03-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0374529256", "body_markdown": "Barthelme is one of a kind, one of those love him or hate him soft of authors.", "body_html": "Barthelme is one of a kind, one of those love him or hate him soft of authors.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7769723", "pages": "177", "publish_date": "2004", "publish_place": "New York", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL3304518M/The_dead_father", "rating": "4", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/the-dead-father.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 27, "fields": {"title": "The Descent of Alette ", "author_name": "Alice Notley", "slug": "the-descent-of-alette", "read_date": "2005-03-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0140587640", "body_markdown": "Alice Notley's thoughts on this book: "I love to write long poems, to be utterly involved in a particular poem as a way of living a life." Couldn't have said it better myself. After <em>The Battlefield where the Moon Says I Love You,</em> this is by far my favorite book of poetry. Alice Notley is pure genius and there's some really great reading available on the net.", "body_html": "Alice Notley's thoughts on this book: "I love to write long poems, to be utterly involved in a particular poem as a way of living a life." Couldn't have said it better myself. After <em>The Battlefield where the Moon Says I Love You,</em> this is by far my favorite book of poetry. Alice Notley is pure genius and there's some really great reading available on the net.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7769624", "pages": "150", "publish_date": "1996", "publish_place": "New York", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL23241816M/The_descent_of_Alette", "rating": "5", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/the-descent-of-alette.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 28, "fields": {"title": "Hopscotch", "author_name": "Julio Cortazar", "slug": "hopscotch", "read_date": "2005-06-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0394752848", "body_markdown": "I had previously only thought of Cortazar as a poet since I had only read his amazing collection of poems, but this is a remarkable novel. I enjoyed the first half a little more, if only because it was set in Paris.", "body_html": "I had previously only thought of Cortazar as a poet since I had only read his amazing collection of poems, but this is a remarkable novel. I enjoyed the first half a little more, if only because it was set in Paris.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7769569", "pages": "564", "publish_date": "1987", "publish_place": "New York", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL2731262M/Hopscotch", "rating": "5", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/hopscotch.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 29, "fields": {"title": "Girl with Curious Hair", "author_name": "David Foster Wallace", "slug": "girl-with-curious-hair", "read_date": "2005-04-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0349111022", "body_markdown": "Early work by one of the most compelling contemporary writers.", "body_html": "Early work by one of the most compelling contemporary writers.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7769487", "pages": "383", "publish_date": "November 6, 1997", "publish_place": "", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL10686884M/Girl_with_Curious_Hair", "rating": "4", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/girl-with-curious-hair.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 30, "fields": {"title": "The Cave", "author_name": "José Saramago", "slug": "the-cave", "read_date": "2005-08-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0151004145", "body_markdown": "Not one of Saramago's better books, but still enjoyable. Saramago in the Salon review: "We think that this so-called reality we invent is not only the only reality that exists, but the only reality that we want. "", "body_html": "Not one of Saramago's better books, but still enjoyable. Saramago in the Salon review: "We think that this so-called reality we invent is not only the only reality that exists, but the only reality that we want. "
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7769427", "pages": "307", "publish_date": "2002", "publish_place": "New York", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL3552258M/The_cave", "rating": "4", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/the-cave.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 31, "fields": {"title": "Pattern Recognition", "author_name": "William Gibson", "slug": "pattern-recognition", "read_date": "2005-04-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0425198685", "body_markdown": "It has a great plot, but in general I thought this one sucked. You see a lot of them in the dollar bin at bookshops, there's a reason for that.", "body_html": "It has a great plot, but in general I thought this one sucked. You see a lot of them in the dollar bin at bookshops, there's a reason for that.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7769351", "pages": "367", "publish_date": "2005", "publish_place": "New York", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25560090M/Pattern_recognition", "rating": "2", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/pattern-recognition.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 32, "fields": {"title": "Sons and Lovers ", "author_name": "D.H. Lawrence", "slug": "sons-and-lovers", "read_date": "2006-03-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0679602682", "body_markdown": "On every side the immense dark silence seemed pressing him, so tiny a speck, into extinction, and yet, almost nothing, he could not be extinct. Night, in which everything was lost, went reaching out, beyond stars and sun. "Stars and sun, a few bright grains, went spinning round for terror and holding each other in embrace, there in a darkness that outpassed them all and left them tiny and daunted. So much, and himself, infinitesimal, at the core a nothingness, and yet not nothing."", "body_html": "On every side the immense dark silence seemed pressing him, so tiny a speck, into extinction, and yet, almost nothing, he could not be extinct. Night, in which everything was lost, went reaching out, beyond stars and sun. "Stars and sun, a few bright grains, went spinning round for terror and holding each other in embrace, there in a darkness that outpassed them all and left them tiny and daunted. So much, and himself, infinitesimal, at the core a nothingness, and yet not nothing."
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7769093", "pages": "654", "publish_date": "June 2, 1997", "publish_place": "", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7699636M/Sons_and_Lovers", "rating": "5", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/sons-and-lovers.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 33, "fields": {"title": "Vertigo", "author_name": "W. G. Sebald", "slug": "vertigo", "read_date": "2006-05-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0811214850", "body_markdown": ""There is something marvelous and bracing about wandering through a maze of unanswerable questions with an eccentrically brilliant guide" - Salon Review", "body_html": ""There is something marvelous and bracing about wandering through a maze of unanswerable questions with an eccentrically brilliant guide" - Salon Review
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7769146", "pages": "263", "publish_date": "2001", "publish_place": "", "openlib_url": "", "rating": "5", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/vertigo.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 34, "fields": {"title": "Snow Country", "author_name": "Yasunari Kawabata", "slug": "snow-country", "read_date": "2007-03-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0679761047", "body_markdown": "Beautiful novel. Its easy to see why he was the first Japanese novelist to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1968). His prose is of the quality that you feel lost in some gorgeous poetic wonderland. Regrettably, while this is still one of my favorites, the translation is not up to par with say Thousand Cranes or others. But even though you can feel some awkwardness in the translation enough of Kawabata's poetry comes through to make it worth the read.", "body_html": "Beautiful novel. Its easy to see why he was the first Japanese novelist to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1968). His prose is of the quality that you feel lost in some gorgeous poetic wonderland. Regrettably, while this is still one of my favorites, the translation is not up to par with say Thousand Cranes or others. But even though you can feel some awkwardness in the translation enough of Kawabata's poetry comes through to make it worth the read.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7769248", "pages": "175", "publish_date": "1996", "publish_place": "New York", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL796803M/Snow_country", "rating": "5", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/snow-country.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 35, "fields": {"title": "Pnin", "author_name": "Vladimir Nabokov", "slug": "pnin", "read_date": "2006-02-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0679723412", "body_markdown": ""Vladimir Nabokov was a literary genius. There is no other word with which to describe a writer who, in mid-life, became a stylistic virtuoso in a language that was not his mother tongue." —The Guardian Unlimited.", "body_html": ""Vladimir Nabokov was a literary genius. There is no other word with which to describe a writer who, in mid-life, became a stylistic virtuoso in a language that was not his mother tongue." —The Guardian Unlimited.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7769032", "pages": "191", "publish_date": "1989", "publish_place": "New York", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL2061012M/Pnin", "rating": "5", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/pnin.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 36, "fields": {"title": "The Rings of Saturn", "author_name": "W.G. Sebald", "slug": "the-rings-of-saturn", "read_date": "2006-04-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0811214133", "body_markdown": "From the Independent's obituary for W. G. Sebald: "All of Max Sebald's books were, in their own fastidious way, ghost stories. History, along with its makers and victims, signals its terrors and consolations to the living across an unbridgeable gulf of time."", "body_html": "From the Independent's obituary for W. G. Sebald: "All of Max Sebald's books were, in their own fastidious way, ghost stories. History, along with its makers and victims, signals its terrors and consolations to the living across an unbridgeable gulf of time."
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5953029", "pages": "296", "publish_date": "1999", "publish_place": "", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25447397M/The_rings_of_Saturn", "rating": "5", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/the-rings-of-saturn.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 37, "fields": {"title": "Slaughterhouse-Five", "author_name": "Kurt Vonnegut Jr.", "slug": "slaughterhouse-five", "read_date": "2006-03-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0385333846", "body_markdown": "Slaughterhouse Five. Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. What else is there to say? Vonnegut was one of a kind and he'll be missed.", "body_html": "Slaughterhouse Five. Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. What else is there to say? Vonnegut was one of a kind and he'll be missed.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5961917", "pages": "275", "publish_date": "2005", "publish_place": "New York", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL18433024M/Slaughterhouse-five_or_The_children's_crusade", "rating": "5", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/slaughterhouse-five.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 38, "fields": {"title": "Collected Stories: Diamond as Big as the Ritz and Other Stories Vol 1 ", "author_name": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "slug": "collected-stories-diamond-as-big-as-the-ritz-and", "read_date": "2006-04-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0140180591", "body_markdown": "The title story is truly bizarre, especially considering Fitzgerald's other writings, which bear very few traces of surrealism, but in general these stories are, in many ways, the best works of his I have read.", "body_html": "The title story is truly bizarre, especially considering Fitzgerald's other writings, which bear very few traces of surrealism, but in general these stories are, in many ways, the best works of his I have read.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5961828", "pages": "", "publish_date": "1990", "publish_place": "", "openlib_url": "", "rating": "3", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/collected-stories-diamond-as-big-as-the-.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 39, "fields": {"title": "On the Natural History of Destruction", "author_name": "W.G. Sebald", "slug": "on-the-natural-history-of-destruction", "read_date": "2006-09-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0676975305", "body_markdown": "All of Sebald's books read like non-fiction, though they're all listed as fiction, but this one actually is non-fiction and compiled mainly from a series of lectures he gave over the years about post war Germany and the German psyche. A good read, though markedly different than his other books.", "body_html": "All of Sebald's books read like non-fiction, though they're all listed as fiction, but this one actually is non-fiction and compiled mainly from a series of lectures he gave over the years about post war Germany and the German psyche. A good read, though markedly different than his other books.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5961662", "pages": "202", "publish_date": "2004", "publish_place": "Toronto", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL21446515M/On_the_natural_history_of_destruction", "rating": "4", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/on-the-natural-history-of-destruction.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 40, "fields": {"title": "Light Years", "author_name": "James Salter", "slug": "light-years", "read_date": "2006-03-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0679740732", "body_markdown": "An amazing book of hidden gems once you get past the trite new york setting, thought I'll admit it did take me a while. If you're looking for a good Salter book, I'd recommend <cite>A Sport And A Pastime</cite>", "body_html": "An amazing book of hidden gems once you get past the trite new york setting, thought I'll admit it did take me a while. If you're looking for a good Salter book, I'd recommend <cite>A Sport And A Pastime</cite>
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5961523", "pages": "308", "publish_date": "January 31, 1995", "publish_place": "", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7700116M/Light_Years", "rating": "2", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/light-years.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 41, "fields": {"title": "Elective Affinities ", "author_name": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "slug": "elective-affinities", "read_date": "2006-02-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0192837761", "body_markdown": "Though his most famous work is of course Faust, Goethe wrote plenty of other excellent books. Apparently he was obsessed with alchemy and chemistry, hence the title of this delightful novel.", "body_html": "Though his most famous work is of course Faust, Goethe wrote plenty of other excellent books. Apparently he was obsessed with alchemy and chemistry, hence the title of this delightful novel.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5953165", "pages": "270", "publish_date": "March 1999", "publish_place": "", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7384277M/Elective_Affinities_(Oxford_World's_Classics)", "rating": "3", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/elective-affinities.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 42, "fields": {"title": "Vineland", "author_name": "Thomas Pynchon", "slug": "vineland", "read_date": "2006-05-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "3499136287", "body_markdown": "A novel of what, as Salman Rushdie wrote, "America has been doing to itself, and to its children, all these years." I'm a huge Pynchon fan, but I have to say it wasn't until the third try that I actually got into this, but once it clicks, it's vintage Pynchon.", "body_html": "A novel of what, as Salman Rushdie wrote, "America has been doing to itself, and to its children, all these years." I'm a huge Pynchon fan, but I have to say it wasn't until the third try that I actually got into this, but once it clicks, it's vintage Pynchon.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5953256", "pages": "479", "publish_date": "May 1, 1995", "publish_place": "", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL9048133M/Vineland.", "rating": "4", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/vineland.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 43, "fields": {"title": "South of the Border, West of the Sun", "author_name": "Haruki Murakami", "slug": "south-of-the-border-west-of-the-sun", "read_date": "2006-01-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0099448572", "body_markdown": "Here's a nice quote from a review: "In the heightened state of perception that exists just before the fall into adolescence, (for Murakami a place of sexual missteps and dark self-knowledge), where the slant of winter sun and every fiber of a girl's blue sweater remain etched in memory, Hajime and Shimamoto each constructed a magical country out of the sound of (Nat King) Cole's words, a place 'beautiful, big, and soft.'"", "body_html": "Here's a nice quote from a review: "In the heightened state of perception that exists just before the fall into adolescence, (for Murakami a place of sexual missteps and dark self-knowledge), where the slant of winter sun and every fiber of a girl's blue sweater remain etched in memory, Hajime and Shimamoto each constructed a magical country out of the sound of (Nat King) Cole's words, a place 'beautiful, big, and soft.'"
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5953184", "pages": "187", "publish_date": "2003", "publish_place": "London, United Kingdom", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24240969M/South_of_the_border_west_of_the_sun", "rating": "4", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/south-of-the-border-west-of-the-sun.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 44, "fields": {"title": "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler", "author_name": "Italo Calvino", "slug": "if-on-a-winters-night-a-traveler", "read_date": "2006-02-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0156439611", "body_markdown": "Amazing book that is somehow highly cerebral and yet still gorgeously written and has more soul than some James Brown records. A book within a book within a book... William Burroughs has a short story where a man starts off reading a story about a man who's reading a story about and so on. But Calvino's book manages to have an impressive amount of heart as well. Highly recommended, and a good intro of Calvino if you're not familiar with him.", "body_html": "Amazing book that is somehow highly cerebral and yet still gorgeously written and has more soul than some James Brown records. A book within a book within a book... William Burroughs has a short story where a man starts off reading a story about a man who's reading a story about and so on. But Calvino's book manages to have an impressive amount of heart as well. Highly recommended, and a good intro of Calvino if you're not familiar with him.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5953139", "pages": "260", "publish_date": "1982", "publish_place": "New York", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL13637479M/If_on_a_winter's_night_a_traveler", "rating": "5", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/if-on-a-winters-night-a-traveler.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 45, "fields": {"title": "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers ", "author_name": "Loung Ung", "slug": "first-they-killed-my-father-a-daughter-of-cambodi", "read_date": "2006-03-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0060856262", "body_markdown": "A childhood survivor of Cambodia's Pol Pot regime, Loung Ung's memoir is rough and brutal but in the end hopeful about the world. As her site says, the book is about "the unnerving strength of a child." Read it while I was in Cambodia, which made the impact a bit more real.", "body_html": "A childhood survivor of Cambodia's Pol Pot regime, Loung Ung's memoir is rough and brutal but in the end hopeful about the world. As her site says, the book is about "the unnerving strength of a child." Read it while I was in Cambodia, which made the impact a bit more real.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5953063", "pages": "288", "publish_date": "April 4, 2006", "publish_place": "", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7283185M/First_They_Killed_My_Father", "rating": "3", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/first-they-killed-my-father-a-daughter-o.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 46, "fields": {"title": "Campo Santo ", "author_name": "W.G. Sebald", "slug": "campo-santo", "read_date": "2005-12-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0812972325", "body_markdown": "Sebald at his best: Death, destruction and memory obsessed over and exhumed in the light art, literature and nature, and, among other things, absurdity, paranoia and love.", "body_html": "Sebald at his best: Death, destruction and memory obsessed over and exhumed in the light art, literature and nature, and, among other things, absurdity, paranoia and love.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5952994", "pages": "221", "publish_date": "February 14, 2006", "publish_place": "", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL8021018M/Campo_Santo", "rating": "5", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/campo-santo.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 47, "fields": {"title": "Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis ", "author_name": "José Saramago", "slug": "year-of-the-death-of-ricardo-reis", "read_date": "2003-03-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "1860465021", "body_markdown": "By far Saramago's best book. "Here the sea ends and the earth begins..."", "body_html": "By far Saramago's best book. "Here the sea ends and the earth begins..."
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5952971", "pages": "384", "publish_date": "May 1998", "publish_place": "", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL8626156M/Year_of_the_Death_of_Ricardo_Reis", "rating": "4", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/year-of-the-death-of-ricardo-reis.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 48, "fields": {"title": "Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World", "author_name": "Haruki Murakami", "slug": "hardboiled-wonderland-and-the-end-of-the-world", "read_date": "2005-09-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0099448785", "body_markdown": "Wonderfully mysterious and at times bizarre, Murakami is a master of peeling back layer after layer to lead you down the meanderings of his wonderfully mysterious and at times bizarre imagination. Nothing is ever what it seems.", "body_html": "Wonderfully mysterious and at times bizarre, Murakami is a master of peeling back layer after layer to lead you down the meanderings of his wonderfully mysterious and at times bizarre imagination. Nothing is ever what it seems.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5952891", "pages": "416", "publish_date": "September 28, 2001", "publish_place": "", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7318183M/Hardboiled_Wonderland_and_the_End_of_the_World", "rating": "4", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/hardboiled-wonderland-and-the-end-of-the.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 49, "fields": {"title": "Mason & Dixon", "author_name": "Thomas Pynchon", "slug": "mason-amp-dixon", "read_date": "2001-10-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0805037586", "body_markdown": "What can you say about a book set in the sixteenth century that even takes a stab a matching the language of the day?", "body_html": "What can you say about a book set in the sixteenth century that even takes a stab a matching the language of the day?
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5912541", "pages": "773", "publish_date": "1997", "publish_place": "New York", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24766204M/Mason_Dixon", "rating": "4", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/mason-amp-dixon.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 50, "fields": {"title": "Kafka on the Shore ", "author_name": "Haruki Murakami", "slug": "kafka-on-the-shore", "read_date": "2006-02-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "1600837964", "body_markdown": "Probably my favorite Murakami book (though I haven't read them all)", "body_html": "Probably my favorite Murakami book (though I haven't read them all)
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5952781", "pages": "", "publish_date": "2001", "publish_place": "", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL8904254M/Kafka_on_the_Shore", "rating": "4", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/kafka-on-the-shore.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 51, "fields": {"title": "Dance, Dance, Dance", "author_name": "Haruki Murakami", "slug": "dance-dance-dance", "read_date": "2006-01-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0099448769", "body_markdown": "I happen to love Murakami and Dance Dance Dance is a nice intro if you haven't read him before. It's fairly straightforward (for Murakami anyway), but still has those quintessential Murakami elements -- a disaffected middle-aged man with enough quirks to choke a horse, broken romances, mysterious goings on that may or may not be dreams, etc.", "body_html": "I happen to love Murakami and Dance Dance Dance is a nice intro if you haven't read him before. It's fairly straightforward (for Murakami anyway), but still has those quintessential Murakami elements -- a disaffected middle-aged man with enough quirks to choke a horse, broken romances, mysterious goings on that may or may not be dreams, etc.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5952648", "pages": "400", "publish_date": "February 7, 2002", "publish_place": "", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7318181M/Dance_Dance_Dance", "rating": "3", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/dance-dance-dance.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 52, "fields": {"title": "Gravity and Grace ", "author_name": "Simone Weil", "slug": "gravity-and-grace", "read_date": "2002-11-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0415290015", "body_markdown": "Weil published during her lifetime only a few poems and articles. With her posthumous works -- 16 volumes, edited by Andre A. Devaux and Florence de Lussy -- Weil has earned a reputation as one of the most original thinkers of her era. T.S. Eliot described her as "a woman of genius, of a kind of genius akin to that of the saints."", "body_html": "Weil published during her lifetime only a few poems and articles. With her posthumous works -- 16 volumes, edited by Andre A. Devaux and Florence de Lussy -- Weil has earned a reputation as one of the most original thinkers of her era. T.S. Eliot described her as "a woman of genius, of a kind of genius akin to that of the saints."
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5952599", "pages": "183", "publish_date": "2002", "publish_place": "London", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL3563189M/Gravity_and_grace", "rating": "4", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/gravity-and-grace.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 53, "fields": {"title": "The System of the World ", "author_name": "Neal Stephenson", "slug": "the-system-of-the-world", "read_date": "2003-04-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0060750863", "body_markdown": "The final book in Neal Stephenson's highly entertaining 'Baroque Cycle' trilogy. It always irritates me that Stephenson doesn't get more respect as a literary writer, so his books sell, does that mean they aren't serious literature? Snobbishness is stupid.", "body_html": "The final book in Neal Stephenson's highly entertaining 'Baroque Cycle' trilogy. It always irritates me that Stephenson doesn't get more respect as a literary writer, so his books sell, does that mean they aren't serious literature? Snobbishness is stupid.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5952499", "pages": "892", "publish_date": "September 6, 2005", "publish_place": "", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7281024M/The_System_of_the_World_(The_Baroque_Cycle_Vol._3)", "rating": "3", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/the-system-of-the-world.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 54, "fields": {"title": "Blindness ", "author_name": "José Saramago", "slug": "blindness", "read_date": "2005-12-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0156007754", "body_markdown": "Saramago said, when accepting the Nobel Prize in 1998. "The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels," and I would basically agree with him. Quite possibly one of the darkest most disturbing books I've read and yet somehow also one of the most uplifting.", "body_html": "Saramago said, when accepting the Nobel Prize in 1998. "The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels," and I would basically agree with him. Quite possibly one of the darkest most disturbing books I've read and yet somehow also one of the most uplifting.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5952378", "pages": "327", "publish_date": "1999", "publish_place": "San Diego", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL21630365M/Blindness", "rating": "4", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/blindness.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 55, "fields": {"title": "As I Lay Dying", "author_name": "William Faulkner", "slug": "as-i-lay-dying", "read_date": "2005-11-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "067973225X", "body_markdown": ""I decline to accept the end of man." -- William Faulker in a speech to accept the Nobel Prize of Literature.", "body_html": ""I decline to accept the end of man." -- William Faulker in a speech to accept the Nobel Prize of Literature.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5952285", "pages": "267", "publish_date": "1990", "publish_place": "New York", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL1888802M/As_I_lay_dying", "rating": "4", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/as-i-lay-dying.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 56, "fields": {"title": "Austerlitz", "author_name": "W.G. Sebald", "slug": "austerlitz", "read_date": "2005-09-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0140297995", "body_markdown": ""All forms of colour were dissolved in a pearl-grey haze; there were no contrasts, no shading any more, only flowing transitions with the light throbbing through them, a single blur from which only the most fleeting of visions emerged." This book isn't just an amazing read, it's necessary. There's a three page sentence in here and I never even noticed it until someone else brought it my attention, now that's great writing.", "body_html": ""All forms of colour were dissolved in a pearl-grey haze; there were no contrasts, no shading any more, only flowing transitions with the light throbbing through them, a single blur from which only the most fleeting of visions emerged." This book isn't just an amazing read, it's necessary. There's a three page sentence in here and I never even noticed it until someone else brought it my attention, now that's great writing.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5952182", "pages": "414", "publish_date": "2002", "publish_place": "", "openlib_url": "", "rating": "5", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/austerlitz.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 57, "fields": {"title": "The Raving Fortune", "author_name": "Noelle Kocot", "slug": "the-raving-fortune", "read_date": "2004-04-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "1884800556", "body_markdown": "Noelle Kocot is a great poet. If you live in New York keep an eye out, she sometimes reads in Brooklyn.", "body_html": "Noelle Kocot is a great poet. If you live in New York keep an eye out, she sometimes reads in Brooklyn.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5952074", "pages": "65", "publish_date": "2004", "publish_place": "New York", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL3576032M/The_raving_fortune", "rating": "3", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/the-raving-fortune.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 58, "fields": {"title": "Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness", "author_name": "Kenzaburo Oe", "slug": "teach-us-to-outgrow-our-madness", "read_date": "2005-06-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "080215185X", "body_markdown": "Oe's writing, like Nike Drake's music, is gets more and more powerful the quieter and more subtle his voice becomes.", "body_html": "Oe's writing, like Nike Drake's music, is gets more and more powerful the quieter and more subtle his voice becomes.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5951828", "pages": "261", "publish_date": "October 13, 1994", "publish_place": "", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7875298M/Teach_Us_to_Outgrow_Our_Madness_Four_Short_Novels", "rating": "3", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/teach-us-to-outgrow-our-madness.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 59, "fields": {"title": "The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You", "author_name": "Frank Stanford", "slug": "the-battlefield-where-the-moon-says-i-love-you", "read_date": "2004-10-01T00:00:00", "isbn": "0918786509", "body_markdown": "Hands down the best American book of the 20th century. A bold claim I know, but I stand by it. There's a great little essay on Frank Standford at Alsop Review "It was Lorca who noted that poets have to be able to use the image to fuse details of the infinitesimally small with astronomic intuitions."Hands down the best American book of the 20th century. A bold claim I know, but I stand by it. There's a great little essay on Frank Standford at Alsop Review "It was Lorca who noted that poets have to be able to use the image to fuse details of the infinitesimally small with astronomic intuitions."
By the way if you go to buy this, don't do it through Amazon, way way too expensive. Try Amherst Books, the sometimes get it in stock.
I haven't had a chance to read much lately, I've been busy writing, which is good I guess, but if you don't read you'll never be a very good writer.
I knew a good Murakami novel would make me drop what I was doing and start reading again, so a couple weeks back I solicited the advice of friends, drank a few glasses of whiskey and hit Amazon.com (what's the point of the internet if not to shop drunk in your pajamas?) and came away with both Norwegian Wood and this one.
I started with The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle because Mike said it was weird. And he's right about that. At times it's reasonably normal, but then something starts to go slightly awry in that magically strange way that only Murakami really knows how to pull off. And I don't by magical mean to imply some sort of magical realism, which this is most definitely not, but rather that world in which everything is just a bit more meaningful and a bit more "off" than the one we normally inhabit.
And this is the first time I've seen Murakami tackle actual history (here it's Japan's involvement in Manchuria just prior to WWII) and he handles it well, not romanticizing and not dry, proving that even the past can work its way into what I like to call A Murakami World where almost nothing is what you expect.
By turns quite beautiful and yet brutal as well, this is definitely one of his best. I think in the end I still prefer Kafka on the Shore, but The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a very very close second.
", "body_html": "I haven't had a chance to read much lately, I've been busy writing, which is good I guess, but if you don't read you'll never be a very good writer.
\n\nI knew a good Murakami novel would make me drop what I was doing and start reading again, so a couple weeks back I solicited the advice of friends, drank a few glasses of whiskey and hit Amazon.com (what's the point of the internet if not to shop drunk in your pajamas?) and came away with both Norwegian Wood and this one.
I started with The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle because Mike said it was weird. And he's right about that. At times it's reasonably normal, but then something starts to go slightly awry in that magically strange way that only Murakami really knows how to pull off. And I don't by magical mean to imply some sort of magical realism, which this is most definitely not, but rather that world in which everything is just a bit more meaningful and a bit more "off" than the one we normally inhabit.
And this is the first time I've seen Murakami tackle actual history (here it's Japan's involvement in Manchuria just prior to WWII) and he handles it well, not romanticizing and not dry, proving that even the past can work its way into what I like to call A Murakami World where almost nothing is what you expect.
By turns quite beautiful and yet brutal as well, this is definitely one of his best. I think in the end I still prefer Kafka on the Shore, but The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a very very close second.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14185387", "pages": "", "publish_date": "1997", "publish_place": "", "openlib_url": "", "rating": "5", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/the-wind-up-bird-chronicle.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 65, "fields": {"title": "Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus", "author_name": "Robert D. Kaplan", "slug": "eastward-to-tartary-travels-in-the-balkans-the-m", "read_date": "2007-12-01T01:00:00", "isbn": "0375705767", "body_markdown": "Fantastic portrait of the Balkans and beyond. Kaplan more or less does the exact route I've been wanting to do -- from eastern Europe through Turkey, Syria and several 'stans. He doesn't go all the way across Mongolia and China and Russia, but for at least the beginning, his trip mirrors my planned trip.
Of course, Kaplan's a well-respected journalist and has all sort of contacts and connections that I lack, but that's part of what makes this a great read, it's not just a travel narrative, but an in-depth study of the entire region. Naturally a lot has changed in the past few years, but Kaplan points out most of the conflicts that we're dealing with today. Too bad no one in power seems to have read this book
", "body_html": "Fantastic portrait of the Balkans and beyond. Kaplan more or less does the exact route I've been wanting to do -- from eastern Europe through Turkey, Syria and several 'stans. He doesn't go all the way across Mongolia and China and Russia, but for at least the beginning, his trip mirrors my planned trip.
\n\nOf course, Kaplan's a well-respected journalist and has all sort of contacts and connections that I lack, but that's part of what makes this a great read, it's not just a travel narrative, but an in-depth study of the entire region. Naturally a lot has changed in the past few years, but Kaplan points out most of the conflicts that we're dealing with today. Too bad no one in power seems to have read this book
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10913621", "pages": "364", "publish_date": "2001", "publish_place": "New York", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL3579554M/Eastward_to_Tartary", "rating": "5", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/eastward-to-tartary-travels-in-the-balka.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 66, "fields": {"title": "Ficciones ", "author_name": "Jorge Luis Borges", "slug": "ficciones", "read_date": "2008-03-14T20:41:33", "isbn": "0802130305", "body_markdown": "My first hands on with Borges... Absolutely amazing. So far beyond what I've been reading lately (mainly non-fiction and some late 20th century authors). As with Faulkner, I find it shocking that I was given an undergraduate degree in English without having read Borges. That simply should not be allowed.
\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nEverything I was expecting and so much more. If, like me, you know Borges through his myth rather than his words, this is a fine place to start. And rest assured, the myths are nothing next to the real thing.
", "body_html": "My first hands on with Borges... Absolutely amazing. So far beyond what I've been reading lately (mainly non-fiction and some late 20th century authors). As with Faulkner, I find it shocking that I was given an undergraduate degree in English without having read Borges. That simply should not be allowed.
\n\nEverything I was expecting and so much more. If, like me, you know Borges through his myth rather than his words, this is a fine place to start. And rest assured, the myths are nothing next to the real thing.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22897340", "pages": "180", "publish_date": "February 1, 1994", "publish_place": "", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7874504M/Ficciones_(English_Translation)", "rating": "5", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/ficciones.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 67, "fields": {"title": "The Orchard Keeper", "author_name": "Cormac McCarthy", "slug": "the-orchard-keeper", "read_date": "2008-07-31T13:27:00", "isbn": "0330314912", "body_markdown": "Cormac Mccarthy's first book may well be his best. Some the finest writing you're likely to encounter in a contemporary novel -- particularly the bits about landscape and the mountains of Tennessee. The Orchard Keeper isn't as dark as some of his other books, so if you've been put off by the descriptions on the back of some of his books (and I know I have), give this one a try.", "body_html": "Cormac Mccarthy's first book may well be his best. Some the finest writing you're likely to encounter in a contemporary novel -- particularly the bits about landscape and the mountains of Tennessee. The Orchard Keeper isn't as dark as some of his other books, so if you've been put off by the descriptions on the back of some of his books (and I know I have), give this one a try.
", "read_in": null, "url": "http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28894464", "pages": "256", "publish_date": "1994", "publish_place": "London", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL17212026M/The_Orchard_keeper", "rating": "5", "enable_comments": true, "image": "images/book-covers/the-orchard-keeper.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 71, "fields": {"title": "The Silent Cry: A Novel", "author_name": "Kenzaburo O\u00eb", "slug": "the-silent-cry-a-novel", "read_date": "2008-08-12T18:58:26", "isbn": "4770004508", "body_markdown": "I have a feeling that this translation is not the best in the world (though as far as I know it's the only). Oe gets quite a bit of praise for the poetics of his language, but I didn't really think it was all that remarkable, which, in the case of translations, tends to make me think less of the translator. In his defense, I wouldn't want to try to translate Japanese to English, I find it remarkable that anything at all manages to come through. And it definitely does.
\r\n\r\nSome of the sublty of language may be lost but in spite of that The Silent Cry is a remarkable book. It's dark. Know that before you pick it up. Very dark in fact, and very raw emotionally, but it manages to have a certain beauty to it as well. And some of the most disturbing violence I've ever read. Made me glad I don't have siblings
\r\n\r\nPerhaps the most amazing thing is the way the book is divided, each chapter is like it's own nugget, its own story and you almost have to pause at the end of each one, put the book down and digest it for a bit. Not a fast read by any means, but worth the effort.
\r\n\r\nIf you like Dostoevsky or perhaps even Tolstoy, you'll probably love Oe.
\r\n", "body_html": "I have a feeling that this translation is not the best in the world (though as far as I know it's the only). Oe gets quite a bit of praise for the poetics of his language, but I didn't really think it was all that remarkable, which, in the case of translations, tends to make me think less of the translator. In his defense, I wouldn't want to try to translate Japanese to English, I find it remarkable that anything at all manages to come through. And it definitely does.
\n\nSome of the sublty of language may be lost but in spite of that The Silent Cry is a remarkable book. It's dark. Know that before you pick it up. Very dark in fact, and very raw emotionally, but it manages to have a certain beauty to it as well. And some of the most disturbing violence I've ever read. Made me glad I don't have siblings
\n\nPerhaps the most amazing thing is the way the book is divided, each chapter is like it's own nugget, its own story and you almost have to pause at the end of each one, put the book down and digest it for a bit. Not a fast read by any means, but worth the effort.
\n\nIf you like Dostoevsky or perhaps even Tolstoy, you'll probably love Oe.
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She had the kind of independent spirit and utterly unique outlook that makes me glad she was able to share this world with us for a while.", "body_html": "One of my all-time favorite \"adventure\" books, though I don't like to sub-genre it. Audrey was a remarkable woman and pulled off things few would be able to. She had the kind of independent spirit and utterly unique outlook that makes me glad she was able to share this world with us for a while.
", "read_in": "On the couch, listening for the waves that were not there.", "url": "", "pages": "136", "publish_date": "1978", "publish_place": "University Press of Hawaii in Honolulu", "openlib_url": "https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2746904W/Paddling_my_own_canoe", "rating": "5", "enable_comments": true, "image": "book-covers/paddling-my-own-canoe_azz2urj.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 506, "fields": {"title": "The Names", "author_name": "Don Delillo", "slug": "the-names", "read_date": "2014-09-18T09:43:58", "isbn": "870459100", "body_markdown": "", "body_html": "", "read_in": "", "url": "", "pages": "", "publish_date": "1982", "publish_place": "Knopf, New York", "openlib_url": "", "rating": "3", "enable_comments": false, "image": "/home/lxf/apps/luxagraf/site/media/images/book-covers/the-names.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 507, "fields": {"title": "Anarcho-Syndicalism Theory and Practice", "author_name": "Rudolf Rocker", "slug": "anarcho-syndicalism-theory-and-practice", "read_date": "2014-10-19T10:01:32", "isbn": "1902593928", "body_markdown": "I never finished this one. Partly because the person I borrowed it from moved away, but partly because I don't really care about making capitalism more tolerable. I care about destroying it. At least on an intellectual level. I didn't know much about syndicalism though so I gave it a go. And on a practical level Rocker's ideas are good. They're also practiced in much of the world these days (informally at least), whether formally articulated as such or not. \r\n\r\nThis one ends up being depressing though, if only because all the economic/political problems of today are there and being delineated by Rocker and others (Goldman) clear back in the 1920s (and earlier). The more things change the more they stay the same.", "body_html": "I never finished this one. Partly because the person I borrowed it from moved away, but partly because I don't really care about making capitalism more tolerable. I care about destroying it. At least on an intellectual level. I didn't know much about syndicalism though so I gave it a go. And on a practical level Rocker's ideas are good. They're also practiced in much of the world these days (informally at least), whether formally articulated as such or not.
\nThis one ends up being depressing though, if only because all the economic/political problems of today are there and being delineated by Rocker and others (Goldman) clear back in the 1920s (and earlier). The more things change the more they stay the same.
", "read_in": "Lying in bed, late at night.", "url": "", "pages": "160", "publish_date": "1938", "publish_place": "Oakland, Ca. AK Press, 2004; originally Edinburgh ", "openlib_url": "", "rating": "3", "enable_comments": false, "image": "/home/lxf/apps/luxagraf/site/media/images/book-covers/anarcho-syndicalism-theory-and-practice.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 508, "fields": {"title": "Wanderlust A History of Walking", "author_name": "Rebecca Solnit", "slug": "wanderlust-a-history-of-walking", "read_date": "2014-09-25T10:23:55", "isbn": "0140286012", "body_markdown": "One of the first things I learned about travel is that you can travel all around the world without going anywhere at all. Solnit has this notion that \"a certain kind of wanderlust can only be assuaged by the acts of the body itself in motion, not the motion of a car... etc\". In other words there is a certain kind of wanderlust that can only be assuaged by walking. \r\n\r\nIt reminded me of Edward Abbey's advice: \"you can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the...cactus. When traces of blood begin to mark your trail you'll see something, maybe.\"", "body_html": "One of the first things I learned about travel is that you can travel all around the world without going anywhere at all. Solnit has this notion that \"a certain kind of wanderlust can only be assuaged by the acts of the body itself in motion, not the motion of a car... etc\". In other words there is a certain kind of wanderlust that can only be assuaged by walking.
\nIt reminded me of Edward Abbey's advice: \"you can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the...cactus. When traces of blood begin to mark your trail you'll see something, maybe.\"
", "read_in": "", "url": "", "pages": "336", "publish_date": "2001", "publish_place": "New York, Viking", "openlib_url": "", "rating": "5", "enable_comments": false, "image": "/home/lxf/apps/luxagraf/site/media/images/book-covers/wanderlust-a-history-of-walking.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 509, "fields": {"title": "The Art of Learning", "author_name": "Josh Waitzkin", "slug": "the-art-of-learning", "read_date": "2014-09-01T11:09:44", "isbn": "0743277465", "body_markdown": "Moderately interesting, but I think the whole book can be neatly summed up by the bolded text in the highlight below.", "body_html": "Moderately interesting, but I think the whole book can be neatly summed up by the bolded text in the highlight below.
", "read_in": "", "url": "", "pages": "288", "publish_date": "2008", "publish_place": "London, Simon & Schuster", "openlib_url": "", "rating": "2", "enable_comments": false, "image": "/home/lxf/apps/luxagraf/site/media/images/book-covers/the-art-of-learning.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.book", "pk": 510, "fields": {"title": "Gathering Moss", "author_name": "Robin Wall Kimmerer", "slug": "gathering-moss", "read_date": "2015-10-23T20:15:15", "isbn": "0870714996", "body_markdown": "One of the best \"nature\" books I've ever read. It's one part scientific treatise, one part lyric essay, several parts things less readily quantifiable. It feels at times in the vein of Muir, Dillard, Abbey and others, but at the same time entirely its own. Refreshingly unmale too, though I have a hard time articulately exactly what I mean by that. I think this quote from Mary Oliver gets to the core of it: \"*Attention without feeling is only a report*.\" The world of science writing is full of reports from men. This is no report. \r\n\r\nWe always like that which we already agree with, but one of my favorite passage in the book also explains the book itself quite well: \r\n\r\n\"*Having words for these forms makes the differences between them so much more obvious. With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see. [...] Having the words also creates an intimacy with the plant that speaks of careful observation. [\u2026] Intimacy gives us a different way of seeing, when visual acuity is not enough.*\"", "body_html": "One of the best \"nature\" books I've ever read. It's one part scientific treatise, one part lyric essay, several parts things less readily quantifiable. It feels at times in the vein of Muir, Dillard, Abbey and others, but at the same time entirely its own. Refreshingly unmale too, though I have a hard time articulately exactly what I mean by that. I think this quote from Mary Oliver gets to the core of it: \"Attention without feeling is only a report.\" The world of science writing is full of reports from men. This is no report.
\nWe always like that which we already agree with, but one of my favorite passage in the book also explains the book itself quite well:
\n\"Having words for these forms makes the differences between them so much more obvious. With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see. [...] Having the words also creates an intimacy with the plant that speaks of careful observation. [\u2026] Intimacy gives us a different way of seeing, when visual acuity is not enough.\"
", "read_in": "In the cool of summer evenings in the south", "url": "", "pages": "168", "publish_date": "2003", "publish_place": "Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, OR", "openlib_url": "", "rating": "5", "enable_comments": false, "image": "/home/lxf/apps/luxagraf/site/media/images/book-covers/gathering-moss.jpg"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 1, "fields": {"book": 72, "page": 5, "location": "[61, 65]", "date_added": "2012-12-20T04:12:28", "body_markdown": "Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day. \u2014Theodore Roosevelt in 1906"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 2, "fields": {"book": 73, "page": 123, "location": "[1870, 1873]", "date_added": "2012-12-24T16:10:22", "body_markdown": "Of course, Odin knew a system like EITS was not intended to resolve conflicts. It was intended merely to manage them. To keep violence disorganized, channeled, and isolated long enough to permit uninterrupted resource extraction. Once that was finished, the locals would be left to their own devices again. Rinse and repeat, and you pretty much understood the conflict map of the globe. This system let them know more about the locals than the locals knew about themselves. And it was just the beginning."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 3, "fields": {"book": 483, "page": 0, "location": "[387, 390]", "date_added": "2013-01-13T03:34:33", "body_markdown": "With the arrival of farming, Diamond argues, women were subjected to domestic drudgery; people started to hoard resources and wealth; and our proximity to animals triggered disease epidemics that still threaten to overwhelm us. \u201cWith agriculture came the gross social and sexual inequality, the disease and despotism, that curse our existence,\u201d he states."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 4, "fields": {"book": 75, "page": 22, "location": "[335, 337]", "date_added": "2013-01-23T02:36:56", "body_markdown": "most of our understanding of human psychology is based on subjects who may be described by the acronym WEIRD: from Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic societies."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 5, "fields": {"book": 75, "page": 25, "location": "[370, 371]", "date_added": "2013-01-23T02:40:56", "body_markdown": "Hence states need police, laws, and codes of morality to ensure that the inevitable constant encounters between strangers don\u2019t routinely explode into fights. That need for police and laws and"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 6, "fields": {"book": 75, "page": 31, "location": "[466, 471]", "date_added": "2013-01-24T02:26:51", "body_markdown": "chiefdoms confront two new problems that bands or tribes did not. First, strangers in a chiefdom must be able to meet each other, to recognize each other as fellow but individually unfamiliar members of the same chiefdom, and to avoid bristling at territorial trespass and getting into a fight. Hence chiefdoms develop shared ideologies and political and religious identities often derived from the supposedly divine status of the chief. Second, there is now a recognized leader, the chief, who makes decisions, possesses recognized authority, claims a monopoly on the right to use force against his society\u2019s members if necessary, and thereby ensures that strangers within the same chiefdom don\u2019t fight each other."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 7, "fields": {"book": 484, "page": 0, "location": "[361, 364]", "date_added": "2013-02-07T02:06:24", "body_markdown": "As the philosopher Colin McGinn has emphasized, your very inability to imagine a solution might reflect your cognitive limitations as an evolved creature. The point is that we have no reason to believe that we, as organisms whose brains are evolved and finite, can fathom the answer to every question that we can ask. All other species have cognitive limitations, why not us? So even if matter does give rise to mind, we might not be able to understand how."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 8, "fields": {"book": 77, "page": 14, "location": "[202, 207]", "date_added": "2013-02-11T03:27:45", "body_markdown": "It thus escaped our attention that the organism as a whole, largely unconscious, was using consciousness and reason to inform and control itself. We thought of our conscious intelligence as descending from a higher realm to take possession of a physical vehicle. We therefore failed to see it as an operation of the same formative process as the structure of nerves, muscles, veins, and bones---a structure so subtly ordered (that is, intelligent) that conscious thought is as yet far from being able to describe it."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 9, "fields": {"book": 77, "page": 15, "location": "[219, 224]", "date_added": "2013-02-11T03:30:05", "body_markdown": "We believe, then, that the mind controls the body, not that the body controls itself through the mind. Hence the ingrained prejudice that the mind should be independent of all physical aids to its working---despite microscopes, telescopes, cameras, scales, computers, books, works of art, alphabets, and all those physical tools apart from which it is doubtful whether there would be any mental life at all. At"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 10, "fields": {"book": 485, "page": 0, "location": "[538, 544]", "date_added": "2013-04-27T01:19:34", "body_markdown": "Contemporary culture is a two-tiered system, like the Morlocks and the Eloi in H.G. Wells's The Time Machine, except that it's been turned upside down. In The Time Machine the Eloi were an effete upper class, supported by lots of subterranean Morlocks who kept the technological wheels turning. But in our world it's the other way round. The Morlocks are in the minority, and they are running the show, because they understand how everything works. The much more numerous Eloi learn everything they know from being steeped from birth in electronic media directed and controlled by book-reading Morlocks. So many ignorant people could be dangerous if they got pointed in the wrong direction, and so we've evolved a popular culture that is (a) almost unbelievably infectious and (b) neuters every person who gets infected by it, by rendering them unwilling to make judgments and incapable of taking stands."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 11, "fields": {"book": 78, "page": 0, "location": "[1247, 1255]", "date_added": "2013-04-29T02:17:50", "body_markdown": "If Mark Twain were brought back to San Francisco today and dropped into one of these old seismically upgraded buildings, it would look just the same to him, with all the doors and windows in the same places--but if he stepped outside, he wouldn't recognize it. And--if he'd been brought back with his wits intact--he might question whether the building had been worth going to so much trouble to save. At some point, one must ask the question: is this really worth it, or should we maybe just tear it down and put up a good one? Should we throw another human wave of structural engineers at stabilizing the Leaning Tower of Pisa, or should we just let the damn thing fall over and build a tower that doesn't suck? Like an upgrade to an old building, cruft always seems like a good idea when the first layers of it go on--just routine maintenance, sound prudent management. This is especially true if (as it were) you never look into the cellar, or behind the drywall. But if you are a hacker who spends all his time looking at it from that point of view, cruft is fundamentally disgusting, and you can't avoid wanting to go after it with a crowbar. Or, better yet, simply walk out of the building--let the Leaning Tower of Pisa fall over--and go make a new one THAT DOESN'T LEAN."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 12, "fields": {"book": 80, "page": 0, "location": "[1396, 1402]", "date_added": "2013-05-14T00:59:22", "body_markdown": "Public education has a mission: to serve public interest. The public interest in our modern society means, above all, a single-minded focus on national economic goals, namely GDP/GNP growth. Young people in school are being trained to contribute to these national economic standards, both as consumers and as potential employees or business owners. To a lesser extent, students are there to boost US ranks in international competitions over who has the smartest kids\u2014another way to boost our world economic standing. This attitude trickles down. Now parents truly seem to believe that their children must measure up to these national standards, first and foremost, or something is wrong. Many parents are afraid to homeschool their children because they fear the requirements they have to meet to prove their children are learning."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 13, "fields": {"book": 80, "page": 0, "location": "[1420, 1426]", "date_added": "2013-05-14T00:59:52", "body_markdown": "It is an unquestioned cultural assumption in developed countries that your food will come from the grocery store, and all of your household supplies will be brought in from some distant source. In his essay \u201cFeminism, The Body, and The Machine,\u201d Wendell Berry observes, \u201cThe modern household is the place where the consumptive couple do their consuming. Nothing productive is done there. Such work as is done there is done at the expense of the resident couple or family, and to the profit of suppliers of energy and household technology. For entertainment, the inmates consume television or purchase other consumable diversion elsewhere.\u201d"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 14, "fields": {"book": 80, "page": 0, "location": "[1428, 1432]", "date_added": "2013-05-14T01:00:26", "body_markdown": "I, personally, side with Wendell Berry and other authors, who assert that the home is the basic economic unit\u2014the foundation on which the rest of capitalist society is based. If we cannot invest ourselves in our own homes, then where are we headed as a society? In truth, the concept of home is gender-neutral and universally desirable. The home should function well as a symbol of security. While security is never guaranteed, an insecure home is no good place to be. Home economics is, at its very basis, the study and practice of making a secure and functioning home."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 15, "fields": {"book": 80, "page": 0, "location": "[1450, 1455]", "date_added": "2013-05-14T01:02:06", "body_markdown": "In economic terms, declining marginal value means that every extra hour of work provides less benefit than the previous hour. This is especially true if you have other ways to use your time. If the other things you\u2019d do with that 20 surplus hours a week have profit potential, then there is a monetary opportunity cost for working an extra 20 hours per week. The opportunity cost is the lost profit from other ventures, and should be subtracted directly from the monetary compensation for those 20 hours per week."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 16, "fields": {"book": 82, "page": 15, "location": "[217, 222]", "date_added": "2013-07-11T02:35:42", "body_markdown": "Today, the average CEO in the United States makes more in a day than the average worker makes in year. This isn\u2019t said to fuel envy of the wealthy and demand a piece of the pile for the poor. Rather, it\u2019s to point out that while absolute poverty deprives our bodies of necessities, relative poverty\u2014being so much poorer than people no smarter or more willing to work than we are\u2014makes us dissatisfied with our lot in life no matter how much we have. It corrodes society and the psyche\u2014saps our belief in justice and fairness and hope. It makes us poor amidst plenty. We feel left out, lonely10 and are more likely to give up on the dream that we can have a better life than our parents."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 17, "fields": {"book": 82, "page": 36, "location": "[544, 547]", "date_added": "2013-07-11T02:56:31", "body_markdown": "The perfect work life would offer enough challenge to be interesting. Enough ease to be enjoyable. Enough camaraderie to be nourishing. Enough solitude to be productive. Enough hours at work to get the job done. Enough leisure to feel refreshed. Enough service to feel needed. Enough silliness to have fun. And enough money to pay the bills . . . and then some."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 18, "fields": {"book": 82, "page": 142, "location": "[2166, 2173]", "date_added": "2013-07-16T18:09:22", "body_markdown": "For many of us, however, \u201cgrowing up\u201d has meant outgrowing our dreams. The aspiration to write a great book has shrunk to writing advertising copy. The dream of being an inspiring preacher has evolved into being an administrator and a mediator between the factions in the congregation. Instead of really knowing who their patients are, how their patients live or the challenges in their lives, doctors today are plagued with back-to-back fifteen-minute patient visits and malpractice suits. The dream of traveling around the world becomes two weeks a year of hitting the tourist traps. Living a fulfilling and meaningful life seems almost impossible, given the requirements of simply meeting day-to-day needs and problems. Yet, at one time or another practically every one of us has had a dream of what we wanted our lives to be. People with a diagnosis of cancer often get that divorce or take the trip they\u2019ve been dreaming about or take up a new hobby that\u2019s been patiently waiting for its time in the sun."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 19, "fields": {"book": 82, "page": 143, "location": "[2178, 2182]", "date_added": "2013-07-17T02:20:25", "body_markdown": "What did you want to be when you grew up? What have you always wanted to do that you haven\u2019t yet done? What have you done in your life that you are really proud of? If you knew you were going to die within a year, how would you spend that year? What brings you the most fulfillment\u2014and how is that related to money? If you didn\u2019t have to work for a living, what would you do with your time?"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 20, "fields": {"book": 83, "page": 32, "location": "[474, 477]", "date_added": "2013-07-22T01:41:23", "body_markdown": "In 1995, in the very early days of the World Wide Web, Clifford Stoll wrote in Silicon Snake Oil (Anchor), \u201cComputers force us into creating with our minds and prevent us from making things with our hands. They dull the skills we use in everyday life.\u201d Keller, Stoll, and Carr all point to something interesting: new technologies do create anthropological changes in society. Yet"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 21, "fields": {"book": 83, "page": 60, "location": "[915, 918]", "date_added": "2013-07-22T02:47:14", "body_markdown": "Westen and his colleagues found that when these subjects processed \u201cemotionally threatening information\u201d about their preferred candidates, the parts of the brain associated with reasoning shut down and the parts responsible for emotions flared up.[41] Westen\u2019s research indicates that once we grow biased enough, we lose our capacity to change our minds."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 22, "fields": {"book": 83, "page": 61, "location": "[927, 928]", "date_added": "2013-07-22T02:47:32", "body_markdown": "We already know that things like confirmation bias make us seek out information that we agree with. But it\u2019s also the case that once we\u2019re entrenched in a belief, the facts will not change our minds."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 23, "fields": {"book": 83, "page": 62, "location": "[937, 941]", "date_added": "2013-07-22T02:48:44", "body_markdown": "\u201cWhy do humans reason?,\u201d[43] they argue instead that \u201creasoning does exactly what can be expected of an argumentative device: Look for arguments that support a given conclusion, and, ceteris paribus, favor conclusions for which arguments can be found.\u201d Mercier and Sperber argue that our minds may have evolved to value persuasion over truth. It certainly is plausible\u2014 human beings are social animals, and persuasion is a form of social power."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 24, "fields": {"book": 83, "page": 68, "location": "[1032, 1038]", "date_added": "2013-07-22T02:52:39", "body_markdown": "Back in 1954, psychologist James Olds found that if he allowed a rat to pull a lever and administer a shock to its own lateral hypothalamus, a shock that produced intense pleasure, the rat would keep pressing the lever, over and over again, until it died. He found that \u201cthe control exercised over the animal\u2019s behavior by means of this reward is extreme, possibly exceeding that exercised by any other reward previously used in animal experimentation.\u201d[48] This launched the study of brain stimulation reinforcement, which has been shown to exist in all species tested, including humans. At the heart of brain stimulus reinforcement is a neurotransmitter called dopamine."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 25, "fields": {"book": 83, "page": 74, "location": "[1120, 1127]", "date_added": "2013-07-22T02:58:37", "body_markdown": "2007, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists\u2014the last major scientific body to reject climate change\u2019s existence and cause\u2014 changed its mind. Climate scientists reached consensus: global warming is \u201cunequivocal\u201d and mankind is the primary cause.[54] Since then, no recognized scientific body has dissented from the theory[55] or rejected the idea of climate change. In the five years since consensus was reached by the scientific community, the number of people doubting climate change\u2019s occurrence has increased. When the battle for scientific minds ended, the doubt production machines shifted into overdrive."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 26, "fields": {"book": 84, "page": 78, "location": "[1188, 1192]", "date_added": "2013-07-25T09:09:41", "body_markdown": "\"Common as the air\" meant something worthless, but Hackworth knew that every breath of air that Fiona drew, lying in her little bed at night, just a silver glow in the moonlight, was used by her body to make skin and hair and bones. The air became Fiona, and deserving- no, demanding- of love. Ordering matter was the sole endeavor of Life, whether it was a jumble of self-replicating molecules in the primordial ocean, or a steam-powered English mill turning weeds into clothing, or Fiona lying in her bed turning air into Fiona."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 27, "fields": {"book": 84, "page": 295, "location": "[4517, 4522]", "date_added": "2013-07-27T03:20:10", "body_markdown": "The ancients who wished to demonstrate illustrious virtue throughout the kingdom, first ordered well their own states. Wishing to order well their states, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such extention of knowledge lay in the investigation of things. From the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything besides."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 28, "fields": {"book": 84, "page": 338, "location": "[5166, 5169]", "date_added": "2013-07-27T17:47:17", "body_markdown": "\"the difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent. The difference between stupid and intelligent people-and this is true whether or not they are well-educated-is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. They are not baffled by ambiguous or even contradictory situations-in fact, they expect them and are apt to become suspicious when things seem overly straightforward."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 29, "fields": {"book": 84, "page": 453, "location": "[6932, 6944]", "date_added": "2013-07-30T03:47:44", "body_markdown": "\"Precisely. The names are pulled out of a hat. The participants have only a few hours' warning. Here, the ritual is done with a cliff and a rope, because there happened to be a cliff in the vicinity. In other R.D.R. nodes, the mechanism might be different. For example, person A might go into a room, take a pistol out of a box, load it with live ammunition, put it back in the box, and then leave the room for ten minutes. During that time, person B is supposed to enter the room and replace the live ammunition with a dummy clip having the same weight. Then person A comes back into the room, puts the gun to his head, and pulls the trigger.\" \"But person A has no way of knowing whether person B has done his job?\" \"Exactly.\" \"What is the role of the third person?\" \"A proctor. An official of the R.D.R. who sees to it that the two participants don't try to communicate.\" \"How frequently must they undergo this ritual?\" \"As frequently as their name comes up at random, perhaps once every couple of years,\" Hackworth said. \"It's a way of creating mutual dependency. These people know they can trust each other. In a tribe such as the F.D.R., whose view of the universe contains no absolutes, this ritual creates an artificial absolute.\""}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 30, "fields": {"book": 85, "page": 112, "location": "[1714, 1718]", "date_added": "2013-11-12T02:38:49", "body_markdown": "To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to \u201cbe happy.\u201d But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to \u201cbe happy.\u201d Once the reason is found, however, one becomes happy automatically. As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy, last but not least, through actualizing the potential meaning inherent and dormant in a given situation."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 31, "fields": {"book": 85, "page": 113, "location": "[1718, 1724]", "date_added": "2013-11-12T02:39:17", "body_markdown": "This need for a reason is similar in another specifically human phenomenon\u2014laughter. If you want anyone to laugh you have to provide him with a reason, e.g., you have to tell him a joke. In no way is it possible to evoke real laughter by urging him, or having him urge himself, to laugh. Doing so would be the same as urging people posed in front of a camera to say \u201ccheese,\u201d only to find that in the finished photographs their faces are frozen in artificial smiles. In logotherapy, such a behavior pattern is called \u201chyper-intention.\u201d It plays an important role in the causation of sexual neurosis, be it frigidity or impotence. The more a patient, instead of forgetting himself through giving himself, directly strives for orgasm, i.e., sexual pleasure, the more this pur- suit of sexual pleasure becomes self-defeating. Indeed, what is called \u201cthe pleasure principle\u201d is, rather, a fun-spoiler."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 32, "fields": {"book": 85, "page": 116, "location": "[1774, 1776]", "date_added": "2013-11-12T02:44:26", "body_markdown": "As for the third issue, addiction, I am reminded of the findings presented by Annemarie von Forstmeyer who noted that, as evidenced by tests and statistics, 90 percent of the alcoholics she studied had suffered from an abysmal feeling of meaninglessness. Of the drug addicts studied by Stanley Krippner, 100 percent believed that \u201cthings seemed meaningless.\u201d"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 33, "fields": {"book": 85, "page": 117, "location": "[1780, 1785]", "date_added": "2013-11-12T02:46:34", "body_markdown": "To invoke an analogy, consider a movie: it consists of thousands upon thousands of individual pictures, and each of them makes sense and carries a meaning, yet the meaning of the whole film cannot be seen before its last sequence is shown. However, we cannot understand the whole film without having first understood each of its components, each of the individual pictures. Isn\u2019t it the same with life? Doesn\u2019t the final meaning of life, too, reveal itself, if at all, only at its end, on the verge of death? And doesn\u2019t this final meaning, too, depend on whether or not the potential meaning of each single situation has been actualized to the best of the respective individual\u2019s knowledge and belief?"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 34, "fields": {"book": 85, "page": 118, "location": "[1802, 1805]", "date_added": "2013-11-12T02:48:01", "body_markdown": "As logotherapy teaches, there are three main avenues on which one arrives at meaning in life. The first is by creating a work or by doing a deed. The second is by experiencing something or encountering someone; in other words, meaning can be found not only in work but also in love. Edith Weisskopf-Joelson observed in this context that the logotherapeutic \u201cnotion that experiencing can be as valuable as achieving is therapeutic because it compensates for our one-sided emphasis on the external world of achievement at the expense of the internal world of experience.\u201d"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 35, "fields": {"book": 85, "page": 118, "location": "[1806, 1808]", "date_added": "2013-11-12T02:48:20", "body_markdown": "Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 36, "fields": {"book": 85, "page": 125, "location": "[1900, 1904]", "date_added": "2013-11-12T02:57:47", "body_markdown": "You may be prone to blame me for invoking examples that are the exceptions to the rule. \u201cSed omnia praeclara tam difficilia quam rara sunt\u201d (but everything great is just as diffcult to realize as it is rare to find) reads the last sentence of the Ethics of Spinoza. You may of course ask whether we really need to refer to \u201csaints.\u201d Wouldn\u2019t it suffce just to refer to decent people? It is true that they form a minority. More than that, they always will remain a minority. And yet I see therein the very challenge to join the minority. For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 37, "fields": {"book": 86, "page": 5, "location": "[46, 76]", "date_added": "2013-11-12T03:10:22", "body_markdown": "Secondary roads are preferred. Paved county roads are the best, state highways are next. Freeways are the worst. We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with emphasis on \u201cgood\u201d rather than \u201ctime\u201d and when you make that shift in emphasis the whole approach changes. Twisting hilly roads are long in terms of seconds but are much more enjoyable on a cycle where you bank into turns and don\u0092t get swung from side to side in any compartment. Roads with little traffic are more enjoyable, as well as safer. Roads free of drive-ins and billboards are better, roads where groves and meadows and orchards and lawns come almost to the shoulder, where kids wave to you when you ride by, where people look from their porches to see who it is, where when you stop to ask directions or information the answer tends to be longer than you want rather than short, where people ask where you\u0092re from and how long you\u0092ve been riding. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It was some years ago that my wife and I and our friends first began to catch on to these roads. We took them once in a while for variety or for a shortcut to another main highway, and each time the scenery was grand and we left the road with a feeling of relaxation and enjoyment. We did this time after time before realizing what should have been obvious: these roads are truly different from the main ones. The whole pace of life and personality of the people who live along them are different. They\u0092re not going anywhere. They\u0092re not too busy to be courteous. The hereness and nowness of things is something they know all about. It\u0092s the others, the ones who moved to the cities years ago and their lost offspring, who have all but forgotten it. The discovery was a real find. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I\u0092ve wondered why it took us so long to catch on. We saw it and yet we didn\u0092t see it. Or rather we were trained not to see it. Conned, perhaps, into thinking that the real action was metropolitan and all this was just boring hinterland. It was a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, \u201cGo away, I\u0092m looking for the truth,\u201d and so it goes away. Puzzling. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0But once we caught on, of course, nothing could keep us off these roads, weekends, evenings, vacations. We have become real secondary-road motorcycle buffs and found there are things you learn as you go. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0We have learned how to spot the good ones on a map, for example. If the line wiggles, that\u0092s good. That means hills. If it appears to be the main route from a town to a city, that\u0092s bad. The best ones always connect nowhere with nowhere and have an alternate that gets you there quicker. If you are going northeast from a large town you never go straight out of town for any long distance. You go out and then start jogging north, then east, then north again, and soon you are on a secondary route that only the local people use. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The main skill is to keep from getting lost. Since the roads are used only by local people who know them by sight nobody complains if the junctions aren\u0092t posted. And often they aren\u0092t. When they are it\u0092s usually a small sign hiding unobtrusively in the weeds and that\u0092s all. County-road-sign makers seldom tell you twice. If you miss that sign in the weeds that\u0092s your problem, not theirs. Moreover, you discover that the highway maps are often inaccurate about county roads. And from time to time you find your \u201ccounty road\u201d takes you onto a two-rutter and then a single rutter and then into a pasture and stops, or else it takes you into some farmer\u0092s backyard. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0So we navigate mostly by dead reckoning, and deduction from what clues we find. I keep a compass in one pocket for overcast days when the sun doesn\u0092t show directions and have the map mounted in a special carrier on top of the gas tank where I can keep track of miles from the last junction and know what to look for. With those tools and a lack of pressure to \u201cget somewhere\u201d it works out fine and we just about have America all to ourselves."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 38, "fields": {"book": 86, "page": 58, "location": "[874, 878]", "date_added": "2013-11-15T03:36:47", "body_markdown": "You follow these little discrepancies long enough and they sometimes open up into huge revelations. There was just a feeling on my part that this was something a little bigger than I wanted to take on without thinking about it, and I turned instead to my usual habit of trying to extract causes and effects to see what was involved that could possibly lead to such an impasse between John\u0092s view of that lovely shim and my own. This comes up all the time in mechanical work. A hang-up. You just sit and stare and think, and search randomly for new information, and go away and come back again, and after a while the unseen factors start to emerge."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 39, "fields": {"book": 86, "page": 59, "location": "[887, 891]", "date_added": "2013-11-15T03:38:18", "body_markdown": "At first this difference seemed fairly minor, but then it grew-and grew-and grew-until I began to see why I missed it. Some things you miss because they\u0092re so tiny you overlook them. But some things you don\u0092t see because they\u0092re so huge. We were both looking at the same thing, seeing the same thing, talking about the same thing, thinking about the same thing, except he was looking, seeing, talking and thinking from a completely different dimension."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 40, "fields": {"book": 86, "page": 105, "location": "[1598, 1603]", "date_added": "2013-11-17T01:56:40", "body_markdown": "But to tear down a factory or to revolt against a government or to avoid repair of a motorcycle because it is a system is to attack effects rather than causes; and as long as the attack is upon effects only, no change is possible. The true system, the real system, is our present construction of systematic thought itself, rationality itself, and if a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory. If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves in the succeeding government. There\u0092s so much talk about the system. And so little understanding."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 41, "fields": {"book": 86, "page": 114, "location": "[1745, 1748]", "date_added": "2013-12-12T02:27:41", "body_markdown": "\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In the final category, conclusions, skill comes in stating no more than the experiment has proved. It hasn\u0092t proved that when he fixes the electrical system the motorcycle will start. There may be other things wrong. But he does know that the motorcycle isn\u0092t going to run until the electrical system is working and he sets up the next formal question: \u201cSolve problem: what is wrong with the electrical system?\u201d"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 42, "fields": {"book": 86, "page": 121, "location": "[1830, 1842]", "date_added": "2013-12-12T02:36:42", "body_markdown": "\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0But there it was, the whole history of science, a clear story of continuously new and changing explanations of old facts. The time spans of permanence seemed completely random he could see no order in them. Some scientific truths seemed to last for centuries, others for less than a year. Scientific truth was not dogma, good for eternity, but a temporal quantitative entity that could be studied like anything else. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He studied scientific truths, then became upset even more by the apparent cause of their temporal condition. It looked as though the time spans of scientific truths are an inverse function of the intensity of scientific effort. Thus the scientific truths of the twentieth century seem to have a much shorter life-span than those of the last century because scientific activity is now much greater. If, in the next century, scientific activity increases tenfold, then the life expectancy of any scientific truth can be expected to drop to perhaps one-tenth as long as now. What shortens the life-span of the existing truth is the volume of hypotheses offered to replace it; the more the hypotheses, the shorter the time span of the truth. And what seems to be causing the number of hypotheses to grow in recent decades seems to be nothing other than scientific method itself. The more you look, the more you see. Instead of selecting one truth from a multitude you are increasing the multitude. What this means logically is that as you try to move toward unchanging truth through the application of scientific method, you actually do not move toward it at all. You move away from it! It is your application of scientific method that is causing it to change!"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 43, "fields": {"book": 86, "page": 129, "location": "[1971, 1971]", "date_added": "2013-12-12T02:47:15", "body_markdown": "The Meeting of East and West, by F. S. C. Northrop,"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 44, "fields": {"book": 86, "page": 158, "location": "[2419, 2422]", "date_added": "2013-12-12T03:32:23", "body_markdown": "When you split it either of those ways you get a lot of dull stuff that doesn\u0092t really tell you much you can\u0092t get out of the official school bulletin. But Ph\u0107drus split it between \u201cthe church\u201d and \u201cthe location,\u201d and once this cleavage is made the same rather dull and imponderable institution seen in the bulletin suddenly is seen with a degree of clarity that wasn\u0092t previously available. On the basis of this cleavage he provided explanations for a number of puzzling but normal aspects of University life."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 45, "fields": {"book": 86, "page": 176, "location": "[2682, 2691]", "date_added": "2013-12-14T02:51:26", "body_markdown": "\u201dPeace of mind isn\u0092t at all superficial, really,\u201d I expound. \u201cIt\u0092s the whole thing. That which produces it is good maintenance; that which disturbs it is poor maintenance. What we call workability of the machine is just an objectification of this peace of mind. The ultimate test\u0092s always your own serenity. If you don\u0092t have this when you start and maintain it while you\u0092re working you\u0092re likely to build your personal problems right into the machine itself.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0They just look at me, thinking about this. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201dIt\u0092s an unconventional concept,\u201d I say, \u201cbut conventional reason bears it out. The material object of observation, the bicycle or rotisserie, can\u0092t be right or wrong. Molecules are molecules. They don\u0092t have any ethical codes to follow except those people give them. The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn\u0092t any other test. If the machine produces tranquillity it\u0092s right. If it disturbs you it\u0092s wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed. The test of the machine\u0092s always your own mind. There isn\u0092t any other test.\u201d"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 46, "fields": {"book": 86, "page": 180, "location": "[2750, 2756]", "date_added": "2013-12-14T02:55:46", "body_markdown": "\u201dWell, it isn\u0092t just art and technology. It\u0092s a kind of a noncoalescence between reason and feeling. What\u0092s wrong with technology is that it\u0092s not connected in any real way with matters of the spirit and of the heart. And so it does blind, ugly things quite by accident and gets hated for that. People haven\u0092t paid much attention to this before because the big concern has been with food, clothing and shelter for everyone and technology has provided these. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201dBut now where these are assured, the ugliness is being noticed more and more and people are asking if we must always suffer spiritually and esthetically in order to satisfy material needs. Lately it\u0092s become almost a national crisis\u0085antipollution drives, antitechnological communes and styles of life, and all that.\u201d"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 47, "fields": {"book": 86, "page": 183, "location": "[2786, 2791]", "date_added": "2013-12-14T02:59:15", "body_markdown": "A really new exploration, one that would look to us today the way the world looked to Columbus, would have to be in an entirely new direction.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201dLike what?\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201dLike into realms beyond reason. I think present-day reason is an analogue of the flat earth of the medieval period. If you go too far beyond it you\u0092re presumed to fall off, into insanity. And people are very much afraid of that. I think this fear of insanity is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world. Or the fear of heretics. There\u0092s a very close analogue there."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 48, "fields": {"book": 86, "page": 185, "location": "[2822, 2827]", "date_added": "2013-12-14T03:02:31", "body_markdown": "\u201dThe trouble is that essays always have to sound like God talking for eternity, and that isn\u0092t the way it ever is. People should see that it\u0092s never anything other than just one person talking from one place in time and space and circumstance. It\u0092s never been anything else, ever, but you can\u0092t get that across in an essay.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201dYou should do it anyway,\u201d Gennie says. \u201cWithout trying to get it perfect.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201dI suppose,\u201d I say."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 49, "fields": {"book": 86, "page": 219, "location": "[3342, 3346]", "date_added": "2013-12-15T03:49:42", "body_markdown": "Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. Then, when you\u0092re no longer thinking ahead, each footstep isn\u0092t just a means to an end but a unique event in itself. This leaf has jagged edges. This rock looks loose. From this place the snow is less visible, even though closer. These are things you should notice anyway. To live only for some future goal is shallow. It\u0092s the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here\u0092s where things grow."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 50, "fields": {"book": 86, "page": 235, "location": "[3595, 3596]", "date_added": "2013-12-16T01:46:29", "body_markdown": "\u201cSquareness may be succinctly and yet thoroughly defined as an inability to see quality before it\u0092s been intellectually defined, that is, before it gets all chopped up into words"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 51, "fields": {"book": 86, "page": 259, "location": "[3964, 3967]", "date_added": "2013-12-17T03:04:40", "body_markdown": "Quality is not a thing. It is an event. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Warmer. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It is the event at which the subject becomes aware of the object. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And because without objects there can be no subject\u0085because the objects create the subject\u0092s awareness of himself\u0085Quality is the event at which awareness of both subjects and objects is made possible."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 52, "fields": {"book": 86, "page": 269, "location": "[4116, 4122]", "date_added": "2013-12-17T03:13:31", "body_markdown": "You can\u0092t be aware that you\u0092ve seen a tree until after you\u0092ve seen the tree, and between the instant of vision and instant of awareness there must be a time lag. We sometimes think of that time lag as unimportant, But there\u0092s no justification for thinking that the time lag is unimportant\u0085none whatsoever. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality. The tree that you are aware of intellectually, because of that small time lag, is always in the past and therefore is always unreal. Any intellectually conceived object is always in the past and therefore unreal. Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality. This preintellectual reality is what Ph\u0107drus felt he had properly identified as Quality."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 53, "fields": {"book": 86, "page": 273, "location": "[4174, 4178]", "date_added": "2013-12-17T03:19:26", "body_markdown": "\u201dIn our highly complex organic state we advanced organisms respond to our environment with an invention of many marvelous analogues. We invent earth and heavens, trees, stones and oceans, gods, music, arts, language, philosophy, engineering, civilization and science. We call these analogues reality. And they are reality. We mesmerize our children in the name of truth into knowing that they are reality. We throw anyone who does not accept these analogues into an insane asylum. But that which causes us to invent the analogues is Quality. Quality is the continuing stimulus which our environment puts upon us to create the world in which we live. All of it. Every last bit of it."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 54, "fields": {"book": 86, "page": 301, "location": "[4607, 4608]", "date_added": "2013-12-29T17:36:16", "body_markdown": "person who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a person who cares. A person who cares about what he sees and does is a person who\u0092s bound to have some characteristics of Quality."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 55, "fields": {"book": 86, "page": 301, "location": "[4608, 4611]", "date_added": "2013-12-29T17:36:47", "body_markdown": "Thus, if the problem of technological hopelessness is caused by absence of care, both by technologists and antitechnologists; and if care and Quality are external and internal aspects of the same thing, then it follows logically that what really causes technological hopelessness is absence of the perception of Quality in technology by both technologists and antitechnologists."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 56, "fields": {"book": 86, "page": 309, "location": "[4719, 4726]", "date_added": "2013-12-29T17:46:31", "body_markdown": "For true science to take place these must be rigidly separate from each other. \u201cYou are the mechanic. There is the motorcycle. You are forever apart from one another. You do this to it. You do that to it. These will be the results.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This eternally dualistic subject-object way of approaching the motorcycle sounds right to us because we\u0092re used to it. But it\u0092s not right. It\u0092s always been an artificial interpretation superimposed on reality. It\u0092s never been reality itself. When this duality is completely accepted a certain nondivided relationship between the mechanic and motorcycle, a craftsmanlike feeling for the work, is destroyed. When traditional rationality divides the world into subjects and objects it shuts out Quality, and when you\u0092re really stuck it\u0092s Quality, not any subjects or objects, that tells you where you ought to go."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 57, "fields": {"book": 86, "page": 311, "location": "[4758, 4763]", "date_added": "2013-12-29T17:50:28", "body_markdown": "To put it in more concrete terms: If you want to build a factory, or fix a motorcycle, or set a nation right without getting stuck, then classical, structured, dualistic subject-object knowledge, although necessary, isn\u0092t enough. You have to have some feeling for the quality of the work. You have to have a sense of what\u0092s good. That is what carries you forward. This sense isn\u0092t just something you\u0092re born with, although you are born with it. It\u0092s also something you can develop. It\u0092s not just \u201cintuition,\u201d not just unexplainable \u201cskill\u201d or \u201ctalent.\u201d It\u0092s the direct result of contact with basic reality, Quality, which dualistic reason has in the past tended to conceal."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 58, "fields": {"book": 88, "page": 16, "location": "[235, 238]", "date_added": "2013-11-21T02:26:03", "body_markdown": "This, then, is the story of life: each individual seeks happiness. His concept of what will bring him happiness will differ from that of every other human being; happiness will be relative to him. His resources (time, energy, knowledge and property) are limited; so he must choose constantly between the many alternative courses of action he sees. And he does this by placing values on everything he sees. These values lead him to prefer one thing more than another."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 59, "fields": {"book": 88, "page": 17, "location": "[252, 252]", "date_added": "2013-11-21T02:27:14", "body_markdown": "Profit is the increase in happiness by replacing one situation with another."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 60, "fields": {"book": 88, "page": 18, "location": "[274, 276]", "date_added": "2013-11-21T02:29:28", "body_markdown": "So profit can come in many different ways: through money, knowledge, contentment, spiritual understanding, leisure, etc.. In each case, it is what increases the individual\u2019s happiness."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 61, "fields": {"book": 88, "page": 19, "location": "[279, 281]", "date_added": "2013-11-21T02:29:54", "body_markdown": "All individuals seek profit ~ of one kind or another. . . .which means that each individual is seeking to increase his own happiness ~ in whatever way he believes he can."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 62, "fields": {"book": 88, "page": 20, "location": "[293, 298]", "date_added": "2013-11-21T02:31:24", "body_markdown": "There\u2019s an old saying that \u201cone man\u2019s gain must be another man\u2019s loss.\u201d Many people take that old adage for granted as the whole truth. And yet , it is totally false. Why? SECRET OF SELLING ANYTHING/Harry Browne 23 Because happiness is relative. And what pleases one person is not necessarily going to please the next person. This means that two individuals ~ with different values ~ can arrange an exchange between them that will satisfy both of them. Neither has to triumph over the other one. Both can gain."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 63, "fields": {"book": 88, "page": 22, "location": "[326, 327]", "date_added": "2013-11-21T02:33:37", "body_markdown": "The universal fallacy is the belief that an individual would willingly accept something unprofitable to himself."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 64, "fields": {"book": 88, "page": 25, "location": "[377, 378]", "date_added": "2013-11-21T14:38:04", "body_markdown": "The extent of your own profit depends upon your ability to satisfy the needs and desires of others."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 65, "fields": {"book": 88, "page": 40, "location": "[605, 606]", "date_added": "2013-11-22T03:46:53", "body_markdown": "People only pay for what they want ~ so you will succeed only if you are providing people with what they want."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 66, "fields": {"book": 88, "page": 43, "location": "[648, 648]", "date_added": "2013-11-22T03:49:59", "body_markdown": "Find out what people want and help them get it!"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 67, "fields": {"book": 88, "page": 51, "location": "[778, 779]", "date_added": "2013-11-22T04:00:51", "body_markdown": "The key element in the solution was my simple question, \u201cWhat\u2019s the biggest sales problem facing you right now ?\u201d Everything flowed irresistibly from that."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 68, "fields": {"book": 88, "page": 53, "location": "[792, 799]", "date_added": "2013-11-22T04:05:16", "body_markdown": "Any businessman is concerned about dozens of things at any given time. Here are just a few examples: poor employee rapport; lethargic salesmen; bad leads from his advertising; finding new markets; a negative image in his customers\u2019 eyes; quarterly taxes to be paid next Tuesday; spotty distribution; a competitor\u2019s new line; cost-profit squeezes; seasonal delivery problems; lagging sales; higher transportation costs; new government regulations; suppliers cheating him; etc., etc., etc. Not motivated??? How could a man with so many problems not be motivated? He\u2019s a live bundle of motivations. There are so many things he wants, so many problems to solve, so many hopes, so many dreams. He\u2019s loaded with motivations. Everyone is already motivated. The only question is \u201cBy what?\u201d Your job is to find out what it is that motivates your prospect. And then show him how he can get what he wants through your product or service. Only then will he buy."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 69, "fields": {"book": 88, "page": 53, "location": "[809, 810]", "date_added": "2013-11-22T04:06:26", "body_markdown": "You can try, if you wish, to change his motivation. But why bother?"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 70, "fields": {"book": 88, "page": 53, "location": "[808, 810]", "date_added": "2013-11-22T04:06:41", "body_markdown": "his motivations are the hopes and dreams and plans he has that he feels will bring him happiness. Those motivations exist before you ever walk onto the scene. You can try, if you wish, to change his motivation. But why bother?"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 71, "fields": {"book": 88, "page": 56, "location": "[841, 845]", "date_added": "2013-11-22T04:09:15", "body_markdown": "Find this prospect\u2019s motivation and appeal to it. That\u2019s all there is to it. Find this prospect\u2019s motivation and appeal to it. The emphasis is on the word this. The individual is different from all other human beings in the world. He has his own life, his own outlook, his own nature, his own personality, his own ideas, his own goals, his own plans. You cannot treat him as a carbon copy of every prospect you\u2019ve ever faced. He isn\u2019t. If you try to put him into a mold, you\u2019ll fail. Unless you appeal to him in a way that fits what he is, he won\u2019t respond."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 72, "fields": {"book": 89, "page": 17, "location": "[255, 258]", "date_added": "2013-11-24T00:06:12", "body_markdown": "Remember that the shadows on the wall are just a part of life. There's no reason to only follow the rules of the shadows. I have been inspired by many different sources: books on backpacking, observations of animals and ecosystems, boating, cycling, people living in cars--even the homeless. I have read books on systems theory, biology, physics, finance, as well as more practical manuals on plumbing, house wiring, construction, etc., and then I have adapted these ideas to my own life."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 73, "fields": {"book": 89, "page": 18, "location": "[263, 268]", "date_added": "2013-11-24T00:07:46", "body_markdown": "one's entire philosophy must change. Later on I offer a philosophy modeled on the Renaissance ideal of the 17th century and the craftsmen of the 18th century who wrote the Constitution of the United States at the peak of the Age of Enlightenment. This is a framework of complexity where a person is skilled in more than just one area. It is, in a way, a contrarian approach to the contemporary idea of \"one man-one specialization.\" It's an interlocking way of arranging one's life. In risk management parlance, one wants to transfer from a tightly coupled linear system of financed consumerism to a loosely coupled, complex system of the financially independent Renaissance man."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 74, "fields": {"book": 89, "page": 27, "location": "[406, 408]", "date_added": "2013-11-24T01:15:18", "body_markdown": "Dissatisfaction with the current situation may be high and the vision of an alternative may be high as well, but without a plan, this can only lead to frustration. There must be a strategy or at least a plan, and it must be practical. To get things done, it's much better to have a plan than to have passion, at least insofar as you act on it."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 75, "fields": {"book": 89, "page": 27, "location": "[409, 411]", "date_added": "2013-11-24T01:15:54", "body_markdown": "Changemongers thus have the following four variables to play with: Increase your dissatisfaction with present situation. Strengthen your vision of future situation. Build a plan to get from the present to the future. Lower the perceived cost of the plan."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 76, "fields": {"book": 89, "page": 41, "location": "[622, 624]", "date_added": "2013-11-24T01:55:45", "body_markdown": "The Darwinian \"survival of the fittest\" often has undertones of \"survival of the best,\" a belief that the \"fittest\" are happy to reinforce. The distinction should not be forgotten, though. In competitive environments, the selection isn't for the best but for those that best fit the environment."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 77, "fields": {"book": 89, "page": 41, "location": "[622, 626]", "date_added": "2013-11-24T01:56:09", "body_markdown": "The Darwinian \"survival of the fittest\" often has undertones of \"survival of the best,\" a belief that the \"fittest\" are happy to reinforce. The distinction should not be forgotten, though. In competitive environments, the selection isn't for the best but for those that best fit the environment. People are not selected for the best attributes, they're selected for the fittest attributes. A world without trees selects the short-necked giraffe, which is better adapted. Similarly, the career track selects people who are willing to give up their lives for the sake of work."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 78, "fields": {"book": 89, "page": 45, "location": "[679, 683]", "date_added": "2013-11-24T02:56:59", "body_markdown": "The means to survival for a specialist is his ability to rapidly learn new subjects, quickly produce saleable works, and then move on. This is called skimming. It's the same strategy pursued by weeds, to use an ecological analogy. At the expert level (see Gauging mastery), a person needs 80-100 hours a week to stay competitive. For masters level, it's 60-80 hours, and to remain competent requires 40-60 hours a week."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 79, "fields": {"book": 89, "page": 47, "location": "[717, 720]", "date_added": "2013-11-24T03:01:54", "body_markdown": "Our culture was founded on the idea that maximizing production equals maximizing happiness. In the past, pursuing this goal was admirable since any increase in production resulted in an increase in well-being: better food, better medicine, better clothing, better housing, better work, and better living. At some point the focus changed from better to more: more food, more medicine, more clothing, more bedrooms, more bathrooms, and more work. But can we honestly say this still results in better living and greater well-being?"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 80, "fields": {"book": 89, "page": 50, "location": "[765, 767]", "date_added": "2013-11-24T03:07:24", "body_markdown": "garage and parking the car on the street. People don't seem to realize that the quest to bring more possessions in through the front door is a chronic disease, and that the shortage of space is a symptom rather than an underlying problem."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 81, "fields": {"book": 89, "page": 61, "location": "[931, 933]", "date_added": "2013-11-24T03:27:17", "body_markdown": "Many more people started prodigally wasting the abundance of resources and goods that were suddenly at their disposal. This has now turned into a collaborative/exploitative arrangement, where a few get wealthy selling waste to the many, while the many are employed in arrangements in which they have little control over what they produce."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 82, "fields": {"book": 89, "page": 83, "location": "[1253, 1258]", "date_added": "2013-11-26T02:31:36", "body_markdown": "Anyone who has been out in the world for a while and experienced a lot of different situations has a good idea of what is normal, and thus can describe a bad situation as what it is: simply a bad situation. Conversely, people with less agency and a belief that they are not in control of their destiny are more likely to be stressed and to suffer the associated health effects. Combined with self-confidence, agency is the attitude that any problem can be fixed, given enough resources in the form of time, effort, and determination. This attitude rests either on a thorough knowledge of or training in what is to be done, or on the surety that such knowledge or training can be attained. This attitude is often transferable from one field to another, completely unrelated field."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 83, "fields": {"book": 89, "page": 83, "location": "[1263, 1266]", "date_added": "2013-11-26T02:34:02", "body_markdown": "We have an economic model that is based on pulling resources out of the ground and mostly turning them into unnecessary products, getting people to buy the products by convincing them that they need them, then getting them to throw the products away because they're obsolete. This makes people buy the next model and bury the other one in the ground. The sole goal of this seemingly pointless exercise is to work faster and grow the gross domestic product, which measures the resource churn."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 84, "fields": {"book": 89, "page": 88, "location": "[1342, 1346]", "date_added": "2013-11-26T02:43:14", "body_markdown": "the present methodical, milestone-governed specialist approach is largely a mopping-up operation which leads to increasing levels of detail but no new ways of understanding things. This way of thinking has dominated our culture for some time, where problems are formulated and solved within the present framework of thinking, leading to the world and way of life described in The lock-in. If you want to change your life, don't be tempted to outsource your life or your operations. You'll never know which kind of connections or synergies you're missing and you'll only make yourself"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 85, "fields": {"book": 89, "page": 101, "location": "[1540, 1546]", "date_added": "2013-11-26T03:01:48", "body_markdown": "technically adept person will be able to quickly crunch numbers and manipulate equations, while perhaps not quite understanding the underlying concepts of his chosen specialization, whereas a more experienced person will quickly understand the underlying concepts of even unfamiliar subject areas. In physics and mathematics, such experienced people are said to have physical intuition or mathematical maturity, respectively. Sadly, many educations focus more on technical details because they are more easily testable. Even without the need for testing, many authors and educators are guilty of obscuring the fundamentals by giving equal time to all pieces of information.33 Automatically grasping what is important only comes with experience. Now, there are"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 86, "fields": {"book": 89, "page": 101, "location": "[1546, 1548]", "date_added": "2013-11-27T03:42:10", "body_markdown": "However, working in the same place for five years does not imply five years of experience. If you've been doing exactly the same thing, day in and day out for five years, and it only took a day to learn, you have one day's experience, five years over."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 87, "fields": {"book": 89, "page": 103, "location": "[1567, 1569]", "date_added": "2013-11-27T03:55:12", "body_markdown": "it's more useful to look at expertise by considering the following list, which parallels the development mentioned above. Copying Comparing Compiling Computing Coordinating Creating"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 88, "fields": {"book": 89, "page": 107, "location": "[1632, 1636]", "date_added": "2013-11-27T03:57:56", "body_markdown": "For instance, at any one time I have four to six simultaneous projects going. If I restricted myself to just one project for the sake of simplicity, or tried to switch projects on a pre-arranged schedule dictated by time management, there would be a lot of downtime when my subconscious was processing a problem while I would be sitting around doing nothing and being underutilized. Hence, not allowing yourself to do anything but focus on one specific task will actually not increase productivity for creative work. It will only increase productivity for assembly line work"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 89, "fields": {"book": 89, "page": 110, "location": "[1677, 1678]", "date_added": "2013-11-27T04:02:09", "body_markdown": "It's important to understand that doing the right thing (good strategy) is much more important than doing things right (good tactics)."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 90, "fields": {"book": 89, "page": 125, "location": "[1906, 1908]", "date_added": "2013-11-28T01:38:31", "body_markdown": "Yet enormous amounts of resources in our society are aimed towards solving problems heterotelically. Sometimes the solution is the cause of a new problem, but thanks to short-term thinking, the focus is often on responding to problems rather than preventing them. Our culture seems to have an ongoing fascination with action, and \"reaction\" is ironically more visible than \"proaction.\""}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 91, "fields": {"book": 89, "page": 167, "location": "[2552, 2555]", "date_added": "2013-11-29T16:32:55", "body_markdown": "In general, people who live a life of abundance, like \"primitive\" tribesmen (see Human capital and necessary personal assets) or Californians, will be happy to give things away, the latter primarily to create more space in their garages, and the former presumably because they can easily build replacements."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 92, "fields": {"book": 89, "page": 179, "location": "[2733, 2742]", "date_added": "2013-11-30T00:49:52", "body_markdown": "Make a list of activities (verbs) that you need to do--sleeping, eating, washing up--and what you want to do--writing, hiking, cycling, entertaining, working, skating, talking, cooking, playing, exercising, etc. Now consider whether you do some of these activities often enough to have \"in-home\" facilities or whether you're better off outsourcing them. Consider this list and extend it to your general facilities--for example, how long since you last used the guest room, the bar room, the home cinema room, etc. Consider that some rooms could have multiple uses (see Monouse and Multiuse). In particular, are the facilities available nearby already? In this case, there's really no reason to duplicate them at home. For instance, if you're a gym rat and spend six days a week at the gym, maybe you can shower there and thus don't need elaborate bathroom facilities at home. If you eat in cafeterias most of the time, maybe you don't need anything fancier than a microwave and a minirefrigerator for your in-home kitchen facilities. Hence, if you currently have rooms and facilities that mostly go unused or could go unused with a change of habit or hobby to something that requires less stuff on location, yet provides as much enjoyment, don't include them in your next home."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 93, "fields": {"book": 89, "page": 240, "location": "[3671, 3674]", "date_added": "2013-12-01T02:44:00", "body_markdown": "Unfortunately, so many people see it differently. That is why they keep working to both cut down existing trees, as well as planting seeds and cutting down the saplings as soon as they get the chance. They don't see the freedom that the mature forest offers. The entire focus is on maximum wood production in the present rather than minimum effort in the future."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 94, "fields": {"book": 89, "page": 240, "location": "[3674, 3679]", "date_added": "2013-12-01T02:44:22", "body_markdown": "This frame of mind is pervasive. Retirement is seen as spending hoarded savings, and survivalists tend to focus on stocking up on tools and supplies. Rather than forming an environment which can sustain them, they accumulate assets to survive in an environment that isn't conducive to their living. Conversely, a hunter-gatherer lives in an environment conducive to living. The traditional hunter-gatherer works 15 hours a week to gather resources from his environment. With our level of technology and understanding, we can gather resources from our environment more effectively and only work a few hours a week, or part of the year, or develop enough assets to no longer work at all, letting others do the work."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 95, "fields": {"book": 89, "page": 292, "location": "[4475, 4475]", "date_added": "2013-12-04T03:29:08", "body_markdown": "\"mortgage\" is French for \"death pledge.\""}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 96, "fields": {"book": 89, "page": 268, "location": "[4104, 4107]", "date_added": "2013-12-04T03:45:53", "body_markdown": "Many associate effort with taking action, but not taking action is also a form of action. In fact, often not taking action is just what is required. The easiest way to get in the right frame of mind is to stop thinking like a farmer and start thinking like a hunter. A farmer (and a modern salary-, working-, and businessman) gets rewarded by activity. The more he does, the greater his reward. Conversely, a hunter isn't going to catch anything if he thrashes around in the woods, frantically looking for prey."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 97, "fields": {"book": 89, "page": 269, "location": "[4107, 4111]", "date_added": "2013-12-04T03:46:19", "body_markdown": "A strategy where he first identifies the best place to hunt (skill), and then waits patiently for the opportunity to present itself, will be more successful. In this sense, the farmer-turned-hunter is his own worst enemy. Patience is a virtue that can take years or maybe even decades to develop. An impatient investor is likely to fire off all his arrows before the situation is optimal and will never make as much money as someone who can wait."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 98, "fields": {"book": 87, "page": 421, "location": "[6445, 6448]", "date_added": "2013-12-07T03:31:11", "body_markdown": "Ernie\u2019s office, which he shares with a washer and dryer, an antique Apple CRT monitor on a desk, left on, Elaine\u2019s dining-room museum of long-operating lightbulbs from this apartment, each in its little foam display holder, labeled with the dates of screw-in and burnout. Sylvania bulbs of a certain era seem to\u2019ve lasted the longest."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 99, "fields": {"book": 87, "page": 427, "location": "[6541, 6546]", "date_added": "2013-12-07T03:45:03", "body_markdown": "What has the alternative ever been? Reclaimed by the small-time day-to-day, pretending life is Back To Normal, wrapping herself shivering against contingency\u2019s winter in some threadbare blanket of first-quarter expenses, school committees, cable-bill irregularities, a workday jittering with low-life fantasies for which \u201cfraud\u201d is often too elegant a term, upstairs neighbors to whom bathtub caulking is an alien concept, symptoms upper-respiratory and lower-intestinal, all in the quaint belief that change will always be gradual enough to manage, with insurance, with safety equipment, with healthy diets and regular exercise, and that evil never comes roaring out of the sky to explode into anybody\u2019s towering delusions about being exempt\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 100, "fields": {"book": 87, "page": 453, "location": "[6941, 6945]", "date_added": "2013-12-08T03:09:48", "body_markdown": "Out here at the far ancient edge of the island, this all used to be trainyard. Deep below, trains still move through tunnels in and out of Penn Station, horns chiming in B-major sixths, deep as dreams, while ghosts of tunnel-wall artists and squatters the civil authorities have no clue what to do about\u2014evict, ignore, re-evict\u2014go drifting past the train-car windows in the semidark, whispering messages of transience, and overhead in this cheaply built apartment complex tenants come and go, relentlessly ephemeral as travelers in a nineteenth-century railroad hotel."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 101, "fields": {"book": 90, "page": 119, "location": "[1811, 1812]", "date_added": "2013-12-19T02:29:51", "body_markdown": "a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 102, "fields": {"book": 91, "page": 520, "location": "[7945, 7967]", "date_added": "2013-12-27T03:08:55", "body_markdown": "they believed that to know something is to change it, therefore in knowing something, you\u2018ve already changed what you think you know so you don\u2018t really know it at all: you only know its history. Maybe they thought that knowledge couldn\u2019t begin without acknowledging the impossibility of knowledge."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 103, "fields": {"book": 92, "page": 56, "location": "[840, 851]", "date_added": "2013-12-30T02:45:41", "body_markdown": "Kissing F\u00fcsun was no longer a provocation devised to test and to express our attraction for each other; it was something we did for the pleasure of it, and as we made love we were both amazed to discover love\u2019s true essence. It was not just our wet mouths and our tongues that were entwined but our respective memories. So whenever we kissed, I would kiss her first as she stood before me, then as she existed in my recollection. Afterward, I would open my eyes momentarily to kiss the image of her a moment ago and then one of more distant memory, until thoughts of other girls resembling her would commingle with both those memories, and I would kiss them, too, feeling all the more virile for having so many girls at once; from here it was a simple thing to kiss her next as if I were someone else, as the pleasure I took from her childish mouth, wide lips, and playful tongue stirred my confusion and fed ideas heretofore not considered (\u201cThis is a child,\u201d went one idea\u2014\u201cYes, but a very womanly one,\u201d went another), and the pleasure grew to encompass all the various personae I adopted as I kissed her, and all the remembered F\u00fcsuns that were evoked when she kissed me. It was in these first long kisses, in our lovemaking\u2019s slow accumulation of particularity and ritual, that I had the first intimations of another way of knowing, another kind of happiness that opened a gate ever so slightly, suggesting a paradise few will ever know in this life. Our kisses delivered us beyond the pleasures of flesh and sexual bliss for what we sensed beyond the moment of the springtime afternoon was as great and wide as Time itself."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 104, "fields": {"book": 92, "page": 58, "location": "[878, 882]", "date_added": "2013-12-30T02:49:38", "body_markdown": "But I also saw in F\u00fcsun\u2019s eyes her pleasure in sex, her growing amazement at discovering delights that she\u2019d wondered about for so long. She called to mind an adventurer of old who, after years of dreaming of a distant legendary continent, sets out across the seas, and who, having crossed oceans, suffered hardships, and shed blood, finally steps onto its shores, to meet each tree, each stone, each creature with awe and enchantment, drawing from the same elation to savor each flower she smelled, each fruit she put into her mouth, exploring each novelty with a cautious, bedazzled curiosity."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 105, "fields": {"book": 93, "page": 17, "location": "[243, 250]", "date_added": "2014-01-01T04:09:18", "body_markdown": "While I was intent on improving my language, I met with an English grammar (I think it was Greenwood's), at the end of which there were two little sketches of the arts of rhetoric and logic, the latter finishing with a specimen of a dispute in the Socratic method; and soon after I procur'd Xenophon's Memorable Things of Socrates, wherein there are many instances of the same method. I was charm'd with it, adopted it, dropt my abrupt contradiction and positive argumentation, and put on the humble inquirer and doubter. And being then, from reading Shaftesbury and Collins, become a real doubter in many points of our religious doctrine, I found this method safest for myself and very embarrassing to those against whom I used it; therefore I took a delight in it, practis'd it continually, and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions, the consequences of which they did not foresee, entangling them in difficulties out of which they could not extricate themselves, and so obtaining victories that neither myself nor my cause always deserved."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 106, "fields": {"book": 93, "page": 58, "location": "[870, 876]", "date_added": "2014-01-03T03:00:36", "body_markdown": "I should have mentioned before, that, in the autumn of the preceding year, I had form'd most of my ingenious acquaintance into a club of mutual improvement, which we called the JUNTO; we met on Friday evenings. The rules that I drew up required that every member, in his turn, should produce one or more queries on any point of Morals, Politics, or Natural Philosophy, to be discuss'd by the company; and once in three months produce and read an essay of his own writing, on any subject he pleased. Our debates were to be under the direction of a president, and to be conducted in the sincere spirit of inquiry after truth, without fondness for dispute, or desire of victory; and, to prevent warmth, all expressions of positiveness in opinions, or direct contradiction, were after some time made contraband, and prohibited under small pecuniary penalties."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 107, "fields": {"book": 93, "page": 75, "location": "[1142, 1146]", "date_added": "2014-01-03T06:39:40", "body_markdown": "The books were imported; the library was opened one day in the week for lending to the subscribers, on their promissory notes to pay double the value if not duly returned. The institution soon manifested its utility, was imitated by other towns, and in other provinces. The libraries were augmented by donations; reading became fashionable; and our people, having no publick amusements to divert their attention from study, became better acquainted with books, and in a few years were observ'd by strangers to be better instructed and more intelligent than people of the same rank generally are in other countries."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 108, "fields": {"book": 93, "page": 80, "location": "[1208, 1217]", "date_added": "2014-01-03T06:50:11", "body_markdown": "These names of virtues, with their precepts, were: 1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3. ORDER. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4. RESOLUTION. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. 5. FRUGALITY. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing. 6. INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employ'd in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions. 7. SINCERITY. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly. 8. JUSTICE. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty. 9. MODERATION. Avoid extreams; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve. 10. CLEANLINESS. Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, cloaths, or habitation. 11. TRANQUILLITY. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable. 12. CHASTITY. Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dulness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation. 13. HUMILITY. Imitate Jesus and Socrates."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 109, "fields": {"book": 93, "page": 82, "location": "[1254, 1257]", "date_added": "2014-01-04T04:28:26", "body_markdown": "And conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it; to this end I formed the following little prayer, which was prefix'd to my tables of examination, for daily use. \"O powerful Goodness! bountiful Father! merciful Guide! increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest! strengthen my resolutions to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favors to me.\""}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 110, "fields": {"book": 93, "page": 88, "location": "[1329, 1335]", "date_added": "2014-01-04T04:38:37", "body_markdown": "I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction to the sentiments of others, and all positive assertion of my own. I even forbid myself, agreeably to the old laws of our Junto, the use of every word or expression in the language that imported a fix'd opinion, such as certainly, undoubtedly, etc., and I adopted, instead of them, I conceive, I apprehend, or I imagine a thing to be so or so; or it so appears to me at present. When another asserted something that I thought an error, I deny'd myself the pleasure of contradicting him abruptly, and of showing immediately some absurdity in his proposition; and in answering I began by observing that in certain cases or circumstances his opinion would be right, but in the present case there appear'd or seem'd to me some difference, etc. I soon found the advantage of this change in my manner; the conversations I engag'd in went on more pleasantly."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 111, "fields": {"book": 93, "page": 90, "location": "[1372, 1374]", "date_added": "2014-01-04T04:43:37", "body_markdown": "that, for distinction, we should be call'd The Society of the Free and Easy: free, as being, by the general practice and habit of the virtues, free from the dominion of vice; and particularly by the practice of industry and frugality, free from debt, which exposes a man to confinement, and a species of slavery to his creditors."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 112, "fields": {"book": 93, "page": 97, "location": "[1480, 1487]", "date_added": "2014-01-04T04:56:59", "body_markdown": "I did not, however, aim at gaining his favour by paying any servile respect to him, but, after some time, took this other method. Having heard that he had in his library a certain very scarce and curious book, I wrote a note to him, expressing my desire of perusing that book, and requesting he would do me the favour of lending it to me for a few days. He sent it immediately, and I return'd it in about a week with another note, expressing strongly my sense of the favour. When we next met in the House, he spoke to me (which he had never done before), and with great civility; and he ever after manifested a readiness to serve me on all occasions, so that we became great friends, and our friendship continued to his death. This is another instance of the truth of an old maxim I had learned, which says, \"He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.\" And it shows how much more profitable it is prudently to remove, than to resent, return, and continue inimical proceedings."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 113, "fields": {"book": 93, "page": 111, "location": "[1687, 1697]", "date_added": "2014-01-05T02:01:49", "body_markdown": "I imagin'd it might be well to publish the articles of their belief, and the rules of their discipline. He said that it had been propos'd among them, but not agreed to, for this reason: \"When we were first drawn together as a society,\" says he, \"it had pleased God to enlighten our minds so far as to see that some doctrines, which we once esteemed truths, were errors; and that others, which we had esteemed errors, were real truths. From time to time He has been pleased to afford us farther light, and our principles have been improving, and our errors diminishing. Now we are not sure that we are arrived at the end of this progression, and at the perfection of spiritual or theological knowledge; and we fear that, if we should once print our confession of faith, we should feel ourselves as if bound and confin'd by it, and perhaps be unwilling to receive farther improvement, and our successors still more so, as conceiving what we their elders and founders had done, to be something sacred, never to be departed from.\" This modesty in a sect is perhaps a singular instance in the history of mankind, every other sect supposing itself in possession of all truth, and that those who differ are so far in the wrong; like a man traveling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, tho' in truth he is as much in the fog as any of them."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 114, "fields": {"book": 93, "page": 126, "location": "[1922, 1923]", "date_added": "2014-01-08T04:07:25", "body_markdown": "Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 115, "fields": {"book": 94, "page": 64, "location": "[968, 981]", "date_added": "2014-01-19T02:33:13", "body_markdown": "character. Character, for Kant, is a rationally chosen way of organizing one\u2019s life, based on years of varied experience\u2014indeed, he believed that one does not really develop a character until age forty. And at the core of one\u2019s character, he thought, were maxims\u2014a handful of essential rules for living that, once formulated, should be followed for the rest of one\u2019s life. Alas, we do not have a written list of Kant\u2019s personal maxims. But it is clear that he resolved to transform the \u201ccertain uniformity\u201d of his lifestyle from a mere habit into a moral principle. Thus, before his fortieth birthday, Kant would sometimes stay out until midnight playing cards; after forty, he stuck to his daily routine without exception. This routine was as follows: Kant rose at 5:00 A.M., after being woken by his longtime servant, a retired soldier under explicit orders not to let the master oversleep. Then he drank one or two cups of weak tea and smoked his pipe. According to Kuehn, \u201cKant had formulated the maxim for himself that he would smoke only one pipe, but it is reported that the bowls of his pipes increased considerably in size as the years went on.\u201d After this period of meditation, Kant prepared his day\u2019s lectures and did some writing. Lectures began at 7:00 A.M. and lasted until 11:00. His academic duties discharged, Kant would go to a restaurant or a pub for lunch, his only real meal of the day. He did not limit his dining company to his fellow academics but enjoyed mixing with townspeople from a variety of backgrounds. As for the meal itself, he preferred simple fare, with the meat well done, accompanied by good wine. Lunch might go until as late as 3:00, after which Kant took his famous walk and visited his closest friend, Joseph Green. They would converse until 7:00 on weekdays (9:00 on weekends, perhaps joined by another friend). Returning home, Kant would do some more work and read before going to bed precisely at 10:00."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 116, "fields": {"book": 94, "page": 75, "location": "[1137, 1139]", "date_added": "2014-01-19T16:22:27", "body_markdown": "As the biographer John Richardson has written, \u201cAfter the shabby gentility of his boyhood and the deprivations of his early days in Paris, Picasso wanted a lifestyle which would permit him to work in peace without material worries\u2014\u2018like a pauper,\u2019 he used to say, \u2018but with lots of money.\u2019\u00a0\u201d"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 117, "fields": {"book": 94, "page": 77, "location": "[1167, 1170]", "date_added": "2014-01-19T16:25:55", "body_markdown": "The biographer Annie Cohen-Solal reports, \u201cHis diet over a period of twenty-four hours included two packs of cigarettes and several pipes stuffed with black tobacco, more than a quart of alcohol\u2014wine, beer, vodka, whisky, and so on\u2014two hundred milligrams of amphetamines, fifteen grams of aspirin, several grams of barbiturates, plus coffee, tea, rich meals.\u201d Sartre knew he was wearing himself out, but he was willing to gamble his philosophy against his health."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 118, "fields": {"book": 95, "page": 596, "location": "[9127, 9131]", "date_added": "2014-02-03T03:03:54", "body_markdown": "As with many lonely children, his problem was not solitude itself but that he was never left free to enjoy it. There were always well-meaning adults trying to jolly him, to improve and counsel him, to bribe and cajole and bully him into making friends, speaking up, getting some fresh air; teachers poking and wheedling with their facts and principles, when all he really needed was to be handed a stack of textbooks and left alone; and, worst of all, other children, who could not seem to play their games without including him if they were cruel ones or, if their games were innocent, pointedly keeping him out."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 119, "fields": {"book": 97, "page": 23, "location": "[336, 339]", "date_added": "2014-03-03T03:23:08", "body_markdown": "I could not persuade her that a place does not merely exist, that it has to be invented in one\u2019s imagination; that her practical, bustling London was no less invented than mine, neither more nor less true, only very far apart. It was not her fault that she could not understand, for as Tridib often said of her, the inventions she lived in moved with her, so that although she had lived in many places, she had never travelled at all."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 120, "fields": {"book": 97, "page": 65, "location": "[982, 993]", "date_added": "2014-03-06T03:49:44", "body_markdown": "It\u2019s nothing to do with fading or anything, she said, pointing at a picture of, her parents. It has to do with the way the camera looked at people then. In modern family photographs the camera pretends to circulate like a friend, clicking its shutters at those moments when its subjects have disarranged themselves to present to it those postures which they like to think of as informal. But in the pictures of that time the camera is still a public and alien eye faced with which people feel bound either to challenge the intrusion by striking postures of defiant hilarity, or else to compose their faces and straighten their shoulders, not always formally, but usually with just that hint of stiffness which is enough to suggest a public face. For example, in the foreground of one of those pictures, there is a large, shallow pit. Snipe has been digging that pit for the last two weeks in the back garden. This pit is intended to be the foundation of an Anderson air-raid shelter, his second line of defence against the expected German bombs. It is a serious pit therefore. But in the picture it looks anything but that; it looks like a dishevelled flowerbed. It was probably as some kind of joke that they decided to stand beside it; one of Tresawsen\u2019s friends must have thought of it. Perhaps moments before the picture was taken they were doubled up with laughter, looking down at this pathetic would-be shelter. But now that the camera is upon them only one of them is laughing, defying the lens. The rest have composed their faces."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 121, "fields": {"book": 97, "page": 234, "location": "[3579, 3584]", "date_added": "2014-03-18T03:23:17", "body_markdown": "The enemy of silence is speech, but there can be no speech without words, and there can be no words without meanings \u2013 so it follows, inexorably, in the manner of syllogisms, that when we try to speak of events of which we do not know the meaning, we must lose ourselves in the silence that lies in the gap between words and the world. This is a silence that is proof against any conceivable act of scorn or courage; it lies beyond defiance \u2013 for what means have we to defy the mere absence of meaning? Where there is no meaning, there is banality, and that is what this silence consists in, that is why it cannot be defeated \u2013 because it is the silence of an absolute, impenetrable banality."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 122, "fields": {"book": 97, "page": 244, "location": "[3730, 3733]", "date_added": "2014-03-25T02:49:55", "body_markdown": "There is nothing quite as evocative as an old newspaper. There is something in its urgent contemporaneity \u2013 the weather reports, the lists of that day\u2019s engagements in the city, the advertisements for half-remembered films, still crying out in bold print as though it were all happening now, today \u2013 and the feeling besides that one may once have handled, if not that very paper, then its exact likeness, its twin, which transports one in time as nothing else can."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 123, "fields": {"book": 97, "page": 247, "location": "[3783, 3786]", "date_added": "2014-03-25T02:54:43", "body_markdown": "for the madness of a riot is a pathological inversion, but also therefore a reminder, of that indivisible sanity that binds people to each other independently of their governments. And that prior, independent relationship is the natural enemy of government, for it is in the logic of states that to exist at all they must claim the monopoly of all relationships between peoples. The theatre of war, where generals meet, is the stage on which states disport themselves: they have no use for memories of riots."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 124, "fields": {"book": 101, "page": 8, "location": "[109, 111]", "date_added": "2014-04-12T01:49:26", "body_markdown": "According to Epicurus, for example, \u201cVain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man. For just as there is no profi t in medicine if it does not expel the diseases of the body, so there is no profi t in philosophy either, if it does not expel the suffering of the mind.\u201d"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 125, "fields": {"book": 99, "page": 6, "location": "[78, 79]", "date_added": "2014-04-14T01:49:37", "body_markdown": "In other words, of the things in life you might pursue, which is the thing you believe to be most valuable?"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 126, "fields": {"book": 99, "page": 6, "location": "[81, 87]", "date_added": "2014-04-14T01:50:11", "body_markdown": "Our culture doesn\u2019t encourage people to think about such things; indeed, it provides them with an endless stream of distractions so they won\u2019t ever have to. But a grand goal in living is the first component of a philosophy of life. This means that if you lack a grand goal in living, you lack a coherent philosophy of life. Why is it important to have such a philosophy? Because without one, there is a danger that you will mislive\u2014that despite all your activity, despite all the pleasant diversions you might have enjoyed while alive, you will end up living a bad life. There is, in other words, a danger that when you are on your deathbed, you will look back and realize that you wasted your one chance at living. Instead of spending your life pursuing something genuinely valuable, you squandered it because you allowed yourself to be distracted by the various baubles life has to offer."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 127, "fields": {"book": 99, "page": 22, "location": "[324, 326]", "date_added": "2014-04-15T03:27:15", "body_markdown": "Thus, although Lutherans, Baptists, Jews, Mormons, and Catholics hold different religious views, they are remarkably alike when encountered outside of church or synagogue. They hold similar jobs and have similar career ambitions. They live in similar homes, furnished in a similar manner."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 128, "fields": {"book": 99, "page": 33, "location": "[486, 491]", "date_added": "2014-04-16T01:06:53", "body_markdown": "In fact, this isn\u2019t at all what the Stoics have in mind when they talk about virtue. For the Stoics, a person\u2019s virtue does not depend, for example, on her sexual history. Instead, it depends on her excellence as a human being\u2014on how well she performs the function for which humans were designed. In the same way that a \u201cvirtuous\u201d (or excellent) hammer is one that performs well the function for which it was designed\u2014namely, to drive nails\u2014a virtuous individual is one who performs well the function for which humans were designed. To be virtuous, then, is to live as we were designed to live; it is to live, as Zeno put it, in accordance with nature.18 The Stoics would add that if we do this, we will have a good life."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 129, "fields": {"book": 99, "page": 57, "location": "[861, 866]", "date_added": "2014-04-17T02:29:14", "body_markdown": "How, after all, can we convince ourselves to want the things we already have? THE STOICS THOUGHT they had an answer to this question. They recommended that we spend time imagining that we have lost the things we value\u2014that our wife has left us, our car was stolen, or we lost our job. Doing this, the Stoics thought, will make us value our wife, our car, and our job more than we otherwise would. This technique\u2014let us refer to it as negative visualization\u2014was employed by the Stoics at least as far back as Chrysippus.5 It is, I think, the single most valuable technique in the Stoics\u2019 psychological tool kit."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 130, "fields": {"book": 99, "page": 57, "location": "[866]", "date_added": "2014-04-17T02:31:46", "body_markdown": "if negative visualization of an object produces no emotion in you then get rid of (sell, give away) the object."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 131, "fields": {"book": 99, "page": 57, "location": "[866]", "date_added": "2014-04-17T02:32:21", "body_markdown": "if negative visualization of an object producesno emotion in you then get rid of (sell, give away) the object. its the stoics guide to spring cleaning"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 132, "fields": {"book": 99, "page": 62, "location": "[943, 945]", "date_added": "2014-04-17T03:04:06", "body_markdown": "Hedonic adaptation has the power to extinguish our enjoyment of the world. Because of adaptation, we take our life and what we have for granted rather than delighting in them. Negative visualization, though, is a powerful antidote to hedonic adaptation. By consciously thinking about the loss of what we have, we can regain our appreciation of it, and with this regained appreciation we can revitalize our capacity for joy."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 133, "fields": {"book": 99, "page": 77, "location": "[1164, 1166]", "date_added": "2014-04-19T03:37:56", "body_markdown": "Another thing I think we have complete control over is our values. We have complete control, for example, over whether we value fame and fortune, pleasure, or tranquility. Whether or not we live in accordance with our values is, of course, a different question: It is something over which we have some but not complete control."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 134, "fields": {"book": 99, "page": 90, "location": "[1356, 1368]", "date_added": "2014-04-22T02:41:19", "body_markdown": "It is indeed curious: Although they would have been satisfied with next to nothing, they nevertheless strove for something. Here is how Stoics would explain this seeming paradox. Stoic philosophy, while teaching us to be satisfied with whatever we\u2019ve got, also counsels us to seek certain things in life. We should, for example, strive to become better people\u2014to become virtuous in the ancient sense of the word. We should strive to practice Stoicism in our daily life. And we should, as we shall see in chapter 9, strive to do our social duty: This is why Seneca and Marcus felt compelled to participate in Roman government and why Musonius and Epictetus felt compelled to teach Stoicism. Furthermore, the Stoics see nothing wrong with our taking steps to enjoy the circumstances in which we find ourselves; indeed, Seneca advises us to be \u201cattentive to all the advantages that adorn life.\u201d6 We might, as a result, get married and have children. We might also form and enjoy friendships. And what about worldly success? Will the Stoics seek fame and fortune? They will not. The Stoics thought these things had no real value and consequently thought it foolish to pursue them, particularly if doing so disrupted our tranquility or required us to act in an unvirtuous manner. This indifference to worldly success, I realize, will make them seem unmotivated to modern individuals who spend their days working hard in an attempt to attain (a degree of) fame and fortune. But having said this, I should add that although the Stoics didn\u2019t seek worldly success, they often gained it anyway."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 135, "fields": {"book": 99, "page": 91, "location": "[1394, 1395]", "date_added": "2014-04-23T03:35:43", "body_markdown": "What the Stoics were advocating, then, is more appropriately described as a program of voluntary discomfort than as a program of self-inflicted discomfort."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 136, "fields": {"book": 99, "page": 93, "location": "[1414, 1420]", "date_added": "2014-04-23T03:38:09", "body_markdown": "It is instructive to contrast the advice that we periodically undertake acts of voluntary discomfort with the advice that might be offered by an unenlightened hedonist. Such a person might suggest that the best way to maximize the comfort we experience is to avoid discomfort at all costs. Musonius would argue, to the contrary, that someone who tries to avoid all discomfort is less likely to be comfortable than someone who periodically embraces discomfort. The latter individual is likely to have a much wider \u201ccomfort zone\u201d than the former and will therefore feel comfortable under circumstances that would cause the former individual considerable distress. It would be one thing if we could take steps to ensure that we will never experience discomfort, but since we can\u2019t, the strategy of avoiding discomfort at all costs is counterproductive."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 137, "fields": {"book": 99, "page": 109, "location": "[1670, 1671]", "date_added": "2014-04-26T03:27:43", "body_markdown": "(In his famous dictionary, by the way, Samuel Johnson includes a wonderful term for these individuals: A seeksorrow, he explains, is \u201cone who contrives to give himself vexation.\u201d)"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 138, "fields": {"book": 99, "page": 118, "location": "[1804, 1805]", "date_added": "2014-04-27T02:37:42", "body_markdown": "the broader Stoic belief that, as Epictetus puts it, \u201cwhat upsets people is not things themselves but their judgments about these things.\u201d"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 139, "fields": {"book": 99, "page": 119, "location": "[1813, 1814]", "date_added": "2014-04-27T02:39:05", "body_markdown": "Do the things that happen to me help or harm me? It all depends, say the Stoics, on my values. They would go on to remind me that my values are things over which I have complete control. Therefore, if something external harms me, it is my own fault: I should have adopted different values."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 140, "fields": {"book": 99, "page": 122, "location": "[1865, 1868]", "date_added": "2014-04-27T02:44:19", "body_markdown": "In such cases, though, the Stoic needs to keep in mind that he is punishing the insulter not because she has wronged him but to correct her improper behavior. It is, says Seneca, like training an animal: If in the course of trying to train a horse, we punish him, it should be because we want him to obey us in the future, not because we are angry about his failure to obey us in the past."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 141, "fields": {"book": 99, "page": 130, "location": "[1976, 1979]", "date_added": "2014-04-28T01:43:54", "body_markdown": "Indeed, he will probably do a better job of punishing and protecting if he can avoid getting angry. More generally, when someone wrongs us, says Seneca, he should be corrected \u201cby admonition and also by force, gently and also roughly.\u201d Such corrections, however, should not be made in anger. We are punishing people not as retribution for what they have done but for their own good, to deter them from doing again whatever they did. Punishment, in other words, should be \u201can expression not of anger but of caution.\u201d"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 142, "fields": {"book": 99, "page": 140, "location": "[2136, 2137]", "date_added": "2014-05-03T09:51:43", "body_markdown": "Epictetus asserts that \u201cit is better to die of hunger with distress and fear gone than to live upset in the midst of plenty.\u201d"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 143, "fields": {"book": 99, "page": 140, "location": "[2138, 2138]", "date_added": "2014-05-03T09:51:57", "body_markdown": "not needing wealth is more valuable than wealth itself is."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 144, "fields": {"book": 99, "page": 168, "location": "[2574, 2575]", "date_added": "2014-05-10T02:01:22", "body_markdown": "In the nineteenth century, the influence of Stoicism could be found in the writings of the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer; his essays \u201cWisdom of Life\u201d and \u201cCounsels and Maxims,\u201d"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 145, "fields": {"book": 99, "page": 168, "location": "[2568, 2568]", "date_added": "2014-05-10T02:01:35", "body_markdown": "Ren\u00e9 Descartes revealed his Stoic leanings in his Discourse on Method."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 146, "fields": {"book": 99, "page": 177, "location": "[2708, 2710]", "date_added": "2014-05-10T23:52:34", "body_markdown": "More precisely, they thought the first step in transforming a society into one in which people live a good life is to teach people how to make their happiness depend as little as possible on their external circumstances. The second step in transforming a society is to change people\u2019s external circumstances."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 147, "fields": {"book": 99, "page": 183, "location": "[2792, 2795]", "date_added": "2014-05-11T02:01:49", "body_markdown": "To conquer our insatiability, the Stoics advise us to engage in negative visualization. We should contemplate the impermanence of all things. We should imagine ourselves losing the things we most value, including possessions and loved ones. We should also imagine the loss of our own life. If we do this, we will come to appreciate the things we now have, and because we appreciate them, we will be less likely to form desires for other things."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 148, "fields": {"book": 99, "page": 187, "location": "[2857, 2860]", "date_added": "2014-05-18T00:13:18", "body_markdown": "It is also important to realize that we did not gain the ability to reason so that we could transcend our evolutionarily programmed desires, such as our desire for sex and social status. To the contrary, we gained the ability to reason so that we could more effectively satisfy those desires\u2014so that we could, for example, devise complex strategies by which to satisfy our desire for sex and social status."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 149, "fields": {"book": 99, "page": 187, "location": "[2860, 2862]", "date_added": "2014-05-18T00:13:47", "body_markdown": "WE HAVE THE ABILITIES we do because possessing them enabled our evolutionary ancestors to survive and reproduce. From this it does not follow, though, that we must use these abilities to survive and reproduce. Indeed, thanks to our reasoning ability, we have it in our power to \u201cmisuse\u201d our evolutionary inheritance."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 150, "fields": {"book": 99, "page": 198, "location": "[3035, 3036]", "date_added": "2014-05-18T00:38:47", "body_markdown": "Thereafter, their goal should not be to find the one, true philosophy of life but to find the philosophy that best suits them."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 151, "fields": {"book": 100, "page": 8, "location": "[117, 120]", "date_added": "2014-04-20T01:15:29", "body_markdown": "When hunting, a fox can leap eight metres and land with enough precision to pin a mouse beneath its forepaws, meaning that at takeoff the fox has accounted for its own speed and trajectory, the speed and trajectory of the mouse, along with other factors such as wind and ground cover, all without ever actually seeing the prey. Such a pounce is so carefully controlled that a fox will, at times, beat its tail to one side or the other in mid-air to adjust its flight path. There were always fox dens on my home prairie."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 152, "fields": {"book": 100, "page": 11, "location": "[163, 167]", "date_added": "2014-04-20T01:20:05", "body_markdown": "there is no question that we are flesh-and-blood animals, carbon-based life forms spun from the same celestial dust as the rest of creation. At the same time, we have always sought to define ourselves as separate from all other species, whether through our capacity for self-awareness and rational thought or the presumed existence of the human soul. Such efforts often carry more than a whiff of desperation: one philosopher saw a sign of human exceptionalism even in the fact that our noses are a \u201cmarked projection\u201d from our faces\u2014apparently unaware of, say, the proboscis monkey, which has a hugely bulbous nose that dangles down to below its mouth."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 153, "fields": {"book": 100, "page": 20, "location": "[293, 301]", "date_added": "2014-04-20T01:58:25", "body_markdown": "scientist Daniel Pauly published a commentary about what he called \u201cshifting baseline syndrome.\u201d Pauly had been inspired, in part, by the 1984 book Sea of Slaughter, in which author Farley Mowat reviews five centuries of explorers\u2019 journals and pioneer accounts to expose the terrible toll of human hunting and fishing in the North Atlantic. The book had recently been revisited by three biologists who concluded, based on Mowat\u2019s research, that biomass\u2014the total weight of living things\u2014off North America\u2019s east coast may have declined by 97 percent since written records began. The failure of coastal residents and scientists to recognize such a shocking diminution seemed to Pauly explainable only by a long-term pattern of amnesia. Each generation of people saw the coast that they grew up on as the normal state of nature, and measured the declines of sea life against that baseline. With every new generation, the baseline shifted\u2014\u201ca gradual accommodation of the creeping disappearance,\u201d Pauly said. We were forgetting what the world used to look like."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 154, "fields": {"book": 100, "page": 22, "location": "[326, 327]", "date_added": "2014-04-20T02:01:06", "body_markdown": "We generally don\u2019t notice small or gradual changes. Our minds would otherwise be crowded with turning leaves and the paths of clouds across the sky\u2014a beguiling madness, but a madness all the same."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 155, "fields": {"book": 100, "page": 23, "location": "[337, 340]", "date_added": "2014-04-20T02:02:24", "body_markdown": "Yet the belief that your own eyes will not fool you is persistent enough that psychologists have given that condition a name too: \u201cchange blindness blindness.\u201d If you don\u2019t believe that you are capable of missing significant changes to a scene, then you won\u2019t heighten your awareness in order not to miss them\u2014which means that you probably will. Change blindness blindness is the failure to see that we so often fail to see."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 156, "fields": {"book": 100, "page": 28, "location": "[413, 415]", "date_added": "2014-04-21T02:51:32", "body_markdown": "By the end of the American Revolution, not quite a century later, the natural economy of the Muscogee was in collapse and they were no longer able to find enough \u201cbucks\u201d\u2014the origin of the slang term for money\u2014to pay off their debts to colonial traders offering easy credit, especially for tafia rum."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 157, "fields": {"book": 100, "page": 28, "location": "[424, 425]", "date_added": "2014-04-21T02:52:35", "body_markdown": "Denial is the last line of defence against memory. It helps us to forget what we\u2019d rather not remember, and then to forget that we\u2019ve forgotten it, and then to resist the temptation to remember."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 158, "fields": {"book": 100, "page": 28, "location": "[425, 427]", "date_added": "2014-04-21T02:52:53", "body_markdown": "\u201cThe ability to deny is an amazing human phenomenon, largely unexplained and often inexplicable,\u201d writes the sociologist Stanley Cohen, author of States of Denial. Yet we find denial useful. It fulfills, to quote the definition preferred by Cohen, \u201cour need to be innocent of a troubling recognition.\u201d"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 159, "fields": {"book": 100, "page": 37, "location": "[555, 562]", "date_added": "2014-04-30T01:19:36", "body_markdown": "The best available evidence suggests that we exist in the accelerating freefall of what has been branded \u201cthe sixth extinction\u201d\u2014a fading-to-black of species worldwide at a rate that recalls five earlier spasms of mass loss imprinted in the fossil record. These range over time from the Ordovician extinction, 440 million years ago, in which 85 percent of known animal species died off, most likely through the fluctuations of an extreme ice age, to the most recent Cretaceous extinction, which sidelined 75 percent of species, among them the dinosaurs, probably in the aftermath of an asteroid\u2019s collision with the earth or a period of spectacular volcanic eruptions. Today, worst-case scenarios count as many as 36 percent of the planet\u2019s life forms as vulnerable to near-term extinction. It is not an empty threat: among species believed to have gone extinct since the year 2000 are the Chinese paddlefish, a European mountain goat called the Pyrenean ibex, and a tiny vesper bat with the lovely name of Christmas Island pipistrelle."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 160, "fields": {"book": 100, "page": 37, "location": "[567, 568]", "date_added": "2014-04-30T01:21:16", "body_markdown": "The pioneering book on the sixth extinction is The Sinking Ark, published by the biologist Norman Myers in 1979."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 161, "fields": {"book": 100, "page": 46, "location": "[702, 704]", "date_added": "2014-04-30T02:03:32", "body_markdown": "Our baselines have shifted. But it\u2019s one thing to recognize that amnesia, and another to say what the original baseline actually is. Where in the billions of years of life on earth could we possibly draw that line?"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 162, "fields": {"book": 100, "page": 53, "location": "[801, 802]", "date_added": "2014-04-30T02:13:02", "body_markdown": "In 1916 Clements published Plant Succession, one of history\u2019s most influential books of ecological ideas."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 163, "fields": {"book": 100, "page": 54, "location": "[819, 822]", "date_added": "2014-04-30T02:15:20", "body_markdown": "There is an ever more urgent need, as the environmental historian Donald Worster puts it, to hold fresh \u201cthe memory of a world by which civilization could be measured.\u201d Research today considers new questions: How much balance is normal in nature, and how much change? At what point does change become damage? In what ways is natural change different from the changes wrought by human influence?"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 164, "fields": {"book": 100, "page": 71, "location": "[1071, 1076]", "date_added": "2014-05-01T23:39:40", "body_markdown": "Awareness can be its own reward. One particularly endless February, when the grey and damp of the season had crept into life itself and good news seemed to have gone out of fashion, I noticed that the heads and necks of glaucous-winged gulls were changing, almost overnight, from the smudged brown of winter to the waiter\u2019s-apron white of breeding season. The traditional first sign of spring\u2014the arrival of the first robin\u2014was weeks away at most northern latitudes, but here was a more subtle, much earlier reminder that, yes, one day the sun would again beat down upon our backs. There is much to be gained and nothing to lose in these small acts of reconnection."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 165, "fields": {"book": 100, "page": 76, "location": "[1154, 1157]", "date_added": "2014-05-01T23:50:12", "body_markdown": "\u201cEither massive numbers of country people are experiencing social psychosis, or there is something out there that is worth investigating,\u201d says Alayne Street-Perrott, a geographer with Swansea University in Wales. It may be, though, that it is the landscape of the imagination that should be investigated. Whether or not black panthers are lurking in the British countryside, it is clear that a lot of people want very badly to believe that they are."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 166, "fields": {"book": 100, "page": 76, "location": "[1157, 1160]", "date_added": "2014-05-01T23:50:35", "body_markdown": "The natural world of the past is not simply gone and forgotten; in many ways it is still with us. The presence of absence is an idea that dates back at least to Plato, and is instantly understandable to anyone who has traced a family tree and seen the patterns of his or her own life reflected in the personalities, historical wounds and turning points of distant ancestors."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 167, "fields": {"book": 100, "page": 76, "location": "[1160, 1162]", "date_added": "2014-05-01T23:51:14", "body_markdown": "To recognize that what has been lost is a part of what remains, however, still leaves questions of scale and character. How large an absence are we talking about? Where do we see its effects? What is the complete inventory of the missing? The answers to these questions not only shape the way we measure the world around us, but also help reveal the character of nature itself\u2014including human nature."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 168, "fields": {"book": 100, "page": 80, "location": "[1221, 1222]", "date_added": "2014-05-02T00:15:07", "body_markdown": "Place names are a measure of the relationship between people and their surroundings."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 169, "fields": {"book": 100, "page": 81, "location": "[1234, 1240]", "date_added": "2014-05-02T00:17:26", "body_markdown": "The solution to these riddles appears to lie in the deep past. Both plants evolved at a time when huge, plant-eating animals still roamed the world. Hawthorn is not adapted to defend against deer, but against megafauna. Animals like ground sloths, which resembled giant bears but were committed vegetarians, could not afford to daintily browse on individual leaves. Instead, they had foreclaws as long as a person\u2019s forearm, designed to hook thick clusters of vegetation toward their mouths; hawthorn\u2019s spines served to discourage such damaging browsers. Similarly, holly is designed to ward off animals tall enough to feed through the windows of a second-storey apartment, despite the fact that the plant hasn\u2019t encountered such threats for thousands of years. Holly and hawthorn are memory incarnate. They are ecological ghosts, manifestations of a world that no longer exists."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 170, "fields": {"book": 100, "page": 86, "location": "[1314, 1316]", "date_added": "2014-05-02T00:26:56", "body_markdown": "The lone person on a wild landscape is a baseline of human liberty, a condition in which we are restrained only by physical limits and the bounds of our own consciousness. It is for this reason, perhaps, that so many of us are drawn to nature as a counterpoint to the world of regulations and traditions, grids and networks, that we live in day to day."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 171, "fields": {"book": 100, "page": 87, "location": "[1320, 1320]", "date_added": "2014-05-02T00:27:27", "body_markdown": "Leopold writes, \u201cOf what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?\u201d"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 172, "fields": {"book": 100, "page": 89, "location": "[1355, 1356]", "date_added": "2014-05-02T00:30:16", "body_markdown": "\u201cSight is a faculty,\u201d Marsh wrote. \u201cSeeing is an art.\u201d"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 173, "fields": {"book": 100, "page": 117, "location": "[1792, 1794]", "date_added": "2014-05-03T06:18:31", "body_markdown": "We have changed the earth to such an extent that even if it was possible to suddenly lay down our tools, we would still end up with a world of our own creation. The choices going forward are our own, however squeamish we may be about human hubris, however unwilling we may be to shoulder responsibility for the rest of creation. We are, as one wildlife biologist put it, \u201ccondemned to art.\u201d"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 174, "fields": {"book": 100, "page": 122, "location": "[1868, 1870]", "date_added": "2014-05-03T06:26:38", "body_markdown": "The common North American bird called the chickadee, for example, appears to grow a larger brain in autumn, when it needs to remember where it is caching seeds for the winter, then shrinks it again in the spring in order to conserve energy for mating."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 175, "fields": {"book": 100, "page": 124, "location": "[1888, 1891]", "date_added": "2014-05-03T06:37:03", "body_markdown": "We have been looking at the natural world as something separate from humankind, using the common definition of nature as everything that is not us and is not made by us. It\u2019s one useful way to see the world, but to gain a wider view, it is ultimately essential to bring our own species into the picture\u2014just another living creature, after all, as miraculous as the rest. The question\u2014which nature?\u2014applies to human nature as well."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 176, "fields": {"book": 100, "page": 124, "location": "[1898, 1900]", "date_added": "2014-05-03T06:37:57", "body_markdown": "Some 60 percent of the genes associated with the sense of smell are now inactive in most people, a loss that has likely taken place only since the dawn of agriculture some ten thousand years ago."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 177, "fields": {"book": 100, "page": 126, "location": "[1920, 1923]", "date_added": "2014-05-03T06:41:01", "body_markdown": "We don\u2019t say that the rarity of gifted musicians represents the slow fade of rhythm and melody from human culture\u2014the world is still home to a lot of church choirs and kitchen-party guitarists. But music is more accessible than ever, while our relationship to nature is increasingly distant and disconnected. Picture a world in which the history of music is largely forgotten, songs are heard less and less often and musical instruments are poorly understood by the vast majority of people."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 178, "fields": {"book": 100, "page": 126, "location": "[1925, 1926]", "date_added": "2014-05-03T06:41:25", "body_markdown": "when we choose the kind of nature we will live with, we are also choosing the kind of human beings we will be. We shape the world, and it shapes us in return."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 179, "fields": {"book": 100, "page": 138, "location": "[2105, 2107]", "date_added": "2014-05-03T06:59:07", "body_markdown": "The question of living with a wilder nature may have less to do with risks and challenges than with the degree to which people identify with the idea of wildness. Rewilding is a matter of nature, but also of culture. In Banff, people want bison; the presence of the animals fits with the locals\u2019 understanding of themselves and the reasons they live where they do."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 180, "fields": {"book": 100, "page": 140, "location": "[2144, 2144]", "date_added": "2014-05-04T00:29:31", "body_markdown": "Another maxim: that which is old has proven itself, and that which is very old may contain wisdom."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 181, "fields": {"book": 100, "page": 149, "location": "[2268, 2275]", "date_added": "2014-05-05T02:02:08", "body_markdown": "Twenty years ago, Ray Rogers, a Canadian environmental philosopher and one-time commercial fisherman, turned his thoughts to extinction and extirpation. In many cases, he realized, the loss of a plant or animal also marks the end of a human relationship to that species. As bears faded across Europe, for example, so did the festival of Chandelours\u2014the word translates as \u201cbearsong\u201d\u2014that celebrated the end of the animals\u2019 winter hibernation in early February. Similarly, as wildlife populations vanished in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, so did the \u201cmarket hunting\u201d profession, along with such wild foods as brant goose, diamondback terrapin, bison tongue and Olympia oysters, each of which was once common on dinner tables and restaurant menus in North America. Rogers described each broken link between people and nature as a \u201cdouble disappearance,\u201d a form of environmental amnesia that went beyond mere memory to hollow out our sense of community with the rest of the living planet.* We were losing species from our social networks."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 182, "fields": {"book": 100, "page": 153, "location": "[2330, 2332]", "date_added": "2014-05-07T02:33:40", "body_markdown": "Rather than proclaim humans the pinnacle of nature\u2019s progress, however, Hawaiian cosmogony holds that we are new arrivals among respected elders. For example, the taro plant, known as kalo on the islands, is specifically identified as the Hawaiians\u2019 immediate older brother; humans are called upon to care for the taro, which has its own obligation to keep its younger sibling alive."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 183, "fields": {"book": 100, "page": 178, "location": "[2716, 2721]", "date_added": "2014-05-08T01:55:22", "body_markdown": "To live in a wilder world, we\u2019ll have to find a way to weave nature into our identities, until guarding against harms to the natural world is as innate as watching out for ourselves, our families or our communities. Only this kind of person\u2014we might call him or her the ecological human\u2014can inhabit nature deeply enough to change our troubled relationship to non-human life, to observe carefully enough the changes we will continue to make, and to truly love the return of the wild as a formidable presence in our lives. For some, such a transformation is probably impossible; they have been away from nature too long and in too many ways to make their way back."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 184, "fields": {"book": 100, "page": 188, "location": "[2873, 2880]", "date_added": "2014-05-09T03:53:01", "body_markdown": "As a boy, I sometimes sat down from my wandering only to wake up an hour later, surprised to find I had fallen asleep in a warm patch of grass. That wouldn\u2019t happen in bear country. When I walk in a place like Yellowstone, it\u2019s always with a slight but solemn recognition of the slender possibility that I will die, that some wild animal will kill me. My senses come alive: I taste the air, listen for sounds beneath the wind. Suddenly, nature is not the backdrop to life, it is life itself, and I am no longer myself, but myself in nature. I note and classify even small changes: a shrew darting across the path, an updraft twisting a fern frond, a hummingbird gathering spiderweb for its nest. Light and form take on greater clarity, and given enough time to sink into these sensations, visual tricks will arise that are somewhere between vigilance and hallucination, such as seeing clearly every trembling leaf on a tree while in the same moment watching a bumblebee pass by in slow motion."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 185, "fields": {"book": 100, "page": 189, "location": "[2882, 2886]", "date_added": "2014-05-09T03:54:24", "body_markdown": "It\u2019s possible, of course, to stumble through the wilderness while locked inside yourself, mentally racing over day-to-day worries, but that is not a good way to remain alive. It\u2019s not that self-awareness is absent in animals\u2014it has been tentatively revealed in experiments involving such species as apes, dolphins, magpies, even octopuses\u2014but that it is a less useful tool than an outward mind: to endure among other species, you must experience the world as a place you share with them."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 186, "fields": {"book": 106, "page": 91, "location": "[1388, 1391]", "date_added": "2014-05-13T02:04:36", "body_markdown": "As noted by Victor Turner (1986, 2; see also Turner 1967, 105), ritual allows for an acute form of apprehension in which social actors reflect \u201cupon themselves, upon the relations, actions, symbols, meanings, codes, roles, statuses, social structures, ethical and legal rules, and other sociocultural components which make up their public \u2018selves.\u2019\u201d"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 187, "fields": {"book": 106, "page": 100, "location": "[1523, 1524]", "date_added": "2014-05-14T02:37:20", "body_markdown": "Analyses that either call for more political orientation or assume fundamental, widespread democratic effects tend to paper over the empirical dynamics animating the political rise of free software."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 188, "fields": {"book": 106, "page": 119, "location": "[1807, 1811]", "date_added": "2014-05-14T03:04:51", "body_markdown": "\u201cIt is in the nature of beginning that something new is started,\u201d writes Hannah Arendt (1998, 157), \u201cwhich cannot be expected from whatever may have happened before. This character of startling unexpectedness is inherent in all beginnings.\u201d What Arendt conveys is that because at some level the present is always in the process of becoming, we live in a temporal state with some degree of elasticity and underdetermination that allows for an experimental engagement with the world."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 189, "fields": {"book": 106, "page": 140, "location": "[2136, 2137]", "date_added": "2014-06-10T01:44:49", "body_markdown": "Indeed, hacking, like all social domains, is shot through with a series of notable tensions. These oscillate between individualism and collectivism, elitism and humility, and frustration and deep pleasure, among others."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 190, "fields": {"book": 106, "page": 145, "location": "[2223, 2223]", "date_added": "2014-06-10T02:19:01", "body_markdown": "your language is defined by the environment and not vice versa."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 191, "fields": {"book": 106, "page": 149, "location": "[2275, 2280]", "date_added": "2014-06-10T02:24:47", "body_markdown": "Programming and similar technical activities require extremely rigorous logical skills, an unwavering sensitivity to detail (a single wrong character can render a program useless), and such an intimate command of a system that one can, if need be, exceed the conventional or intended constraints of the system. It requires, in the words of programmer Ellen Ullman (2003, 177), a \u201crelentless formalism.\u201d Given the accelerated pace of technological change, hackers also have to perpetually learn new technologies as old ones are phased out due to obsolescence, in order to remain competitive in a marketplace."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 192, "fields": {"book": 106, "page": 150, "location": "[2291, 2295]", "date_added": "2014-06-10T02:27:04", "body_markdown": "In Heidegger\u2019s cartography, an object strikes its users as familiar and beyond the scope of critical awareness. Its social meaning is held in place through regular patterns of use and circulation. But when we misuse an object (a spoon used as a knife or a can opener utilized as a hammer) or when an object malfunctions, its thingness is laid bare in the sense that its material characteristic becomes evident. As noted by scholar of things and stuff Bill Brown (2001, 4), \u201cthe story of objects asserting themselves as things is the story of how the thing really names less an object than a particular subject-object relation.\u201d"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 193, "fields": {"book": 106, "page": 177, "location": "[2697, 2711]", "date_added": "2014-06-13T00:32:58", "body_markdown": "statements are unmistakably correct. In most accounts on hackers, however, the meaning of this individualism is treated as an ideological, unsavory cloak or is left underspecified. Why the pronounced performance of individualism? What does it say about how hackers conceptualize authorship? What tensions does it raise? Because hackers do not automatically treat software as solely derivative of one laboring mind but instead see it as derivate of a collective effort, the constant drive to perform ingenuity reflects the formidable difficulty of claiming discrete inventiveness. After all, much of hacker production is based on a constant reworking of different technical assemblages directed toward new purposes and uses\u2014a form of authorial recombination rarely acknowledged in traditional intellectual property law discourse. Because of the tendency, especially now more than ever, for hackers to recognize the reality of collaboration, it may seem that they are moving toward the type of politics and ethics of authorship that flatly reject the ideal of individualism altogether\u2014a rejection famously explored in the works of Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, and Dick Hebdige. In the F/OSS domain, hackers have not moved, even an inch, to decenter the persona of the author in the manner, say, most famously exemplified by Barthes, who in 1967 sought to dethrone the authority of an author: \u201cTo give a text an Author is to impose a limit on that text, to furnish it with a final signified, to close the writing.\u201d19 Instead, among hackers the authorial figure seems to speak slightly louder, clamoring for and demanding credit and recognition, established through oral histories of software or etched into the infrastructure of production."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 194, "fields": {"book": 106, "page": 178, "location": "[2714, 2716]", "date_added": "2014-06-13T00:33:35", "body_markdown": "Furthermore, accountability and credit are built into many of the technical tools that facilitate collaboration, such as CVS and Subversion\u2014software systems used to manage shared source code. These systems give developers the ability to track (and potentially revert to) incremental changes to files and report the changes to a mailing list as they are made, and are often used concurrently by many developers."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 195, "fields": {"book": 106, "page": 179, "location": "[2740, 2743]", "date_added": "2014-06-13T00:37:26", "body_markdown": "Hackers recognize production as the extension or rearrangement of inherited formal traditions, which above all requires access to other people\u2019s work. This precondition allows one to engage in constant acts of re-creation, expression, and circulation. Such an imperative goes against the grain of current intellectual property law rationalizations, which assume that the nature of selfhood and creativity is always a matter of novel creation or individualized inventive discovery."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 196, "fields": {"book": 106, "page": 246, "location": "[3761, 3765]", "date_added": "2014-08-14T03:05:59", "body_markdown": "\u2018[F]ree beer\u2019 represents something that is without monetary cost.\u201d4 This differentiation between free beer and free speech is the clearest enunciation of what, to these developers, are the core meanings of free\u2014expression, learning, and modification. Freedom is understood foremost to be about personal control and autonomous production, and decidedly not about commodity consumption or \u201cpossessive individualism\u201d (Macpherson 1962)\u2014a message that is constantly restated by developers: free software is free as in speech, not in beer."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 197, "fields": {"book": 106, "page": 276, "location": "[4222, 4226]", "date_added": "2014-08-15T02:53:50", "body_markdown": "in the words of free software\u2019s most famous legal counsel, Eben Moglen: \u201cPractical revolution is based upon two things: proof of concept and running code.\u201d1 Returning to the terminology offered by Bruno Latour (1993, 87), F/OSS production acts as a \u201ctheater of proof\u201d that economic incentives are unnecessary to secure creative output\u2014a message that attained visibility as various groups were inspired to follow in the footsteps of free software, and extend the legal logic of free software into other domains of artistic, academic, journalistic, and economic production."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 198, "fields": {"book": 106, "page": 277, "location": "[4243, 4248]", "date_added": "2014-08-15T02:55:47", "body_markdown": "If court case after court case, economist after economist, and all sorts of trade associations stipulate that economic incentives are absolutely (or self-evidently) necessary to induce labor and secure creativity, hackers counterstipulate such views, not simply through the power of rhetoric, but also through a form of collective labor that yields high-quality software (software that happens to power much of the Internet). Thousands and thousands of individual developers\u2019 laboring to make software libre constitutes a social performance of collective work that contrasts with as well as effectively chips away at some of the foundational assumptions driving the continual expansion of intellectual property law."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 199, "fields": {"book": 106, "page": 285, "location": "[4367, 4369]", "date_added": "2014-08-26T02:47:59", "body_markdown": "IBM\u2019s adoption of F/OSS, while uniquely visible, represents a much larger corporate espousal that translates F/OSS principles into a neoliberal language of market agility, consumer choice, and an improved bottom line."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 200, "fields": {"book": 106, "page": 298, "location": "[4567, 4580]", "date_added": "2014-09-09T02:52:17", "body_markdown": "One might add that constitutional laws (like those of the First Amendment and intellectual property in the United States) are often revered and cherished, for being the foundational laws of nations, they carry with them the extra weight of widespread patriotic respect, and are commonly invoked during times of national crisis and rituals of commemoration. What is important to keep in mind is that Stallman, in the process of creating a legal alternative to a constitutional mandate, bypassed the usual channels (the courts and judges) by which one would question or change a law, especially constitutional law. In so doing, he also partially punctured the authority of the law, laying bare the assumption that only institutions of legal authority (the courts and congress) have the right to alter the law. To be sure, lawyers and legal council were and still are essential to making free software law legally binding. The point, however, I am trying to convey is that Stallman did bypass some traditional routes, such as lawsuits, in order to challenge patents and copyrights, instead devising a license that cleverly reformatted copyright by its very use. The GNU GPL and similar copyleft licenses hence rupture the naturalized form of intellectual property by inverting its ossified, singular logic through the very use of intellectual property.18 Let\u2019s recall how F/OSS licenses work: they simultaneously use and defy the core tenets of copyright law. To make software open source or free software, one first applies a copyright and then adds any one of a number of F/OSS licenses, which then disables the restrictive logic of copyright law. In this capacity, the use of these F/OSS legal artifacts behave as a \u201cdestructive analysis of the familiar\u201d (Sapir 1921, 94), to use an old but famous anthropological phrase."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 201, "fields": {"book": 106, "page": 303, "location": "[4645, 4649]", "date_added": "2014-09-09T03:00:07", "body_markdown": "Indeed, the F/OSS case reveals broader insights about what is possible in the prevailing political atmosphere, especially in the United States, where the media and other actors can dismantle, literally in the blink of an eye, the import of a message or politics through spin, insufficient attention, or spectacle (Kellner 2003; Postman [1985] 2006). The mass media, closely aligned with imperatives of capital (McChesney 1997), routinely reduce events to well-established ideological categories (in the United States, this is usually along the lines of liberal versus conservative, and since 9/11, patriotic versus antipatriotic, with red baiting also being a common tactic)."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 202, "fields": {"book": 486, "page": 23, "location": "[341, 345]", "date_added": "2014-05-15T02:01:40", "body_markdown": "Above all else, Bombay was free--exhilaratingly free. I saw that liberated, unconstrained spirit wherever I looked, and I found myself responding to it with the whole of my heart. Even the flare of shame I'd felt when I first saw the slums and the street beggars dissolved in the understanding that they were free, those men and women. No-one drove the beggars from the streets. No-one banished the slum-dwellers. Painful as their lives were, they were free to live them in the same gardens and avenues as the rich and powerful. They were free. The city was free. I loved it."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 203, "fields": {"book": 486, "page": 56, "location": "[856, 857]", "date_added": "2014-05-16T02:58:50", "body_markdown": "passports will be stamped in blood. For me it is nothing. In matters of food I am French, in matters of love I am Italian, and in matters of business I am Swiss. Very Swiss. Strictly neutral."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 204, "fields": {"book": 486, "page": 60, "location": "[906, 907]", "date_added": "2014-05-16T03:04:15", "body_markdown": "The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business. But this is big politics and big business together, in the destruction of the opium smoking,"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 205, "fields": {"book": 486, "page": 60, "location": "[915, 916]", "date_added": "2014-05-16T03:04:26", "body_markdown": "Civilisation, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.\""}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 206, "fields": {"book": 486, "page": 76, "location": "[1157, 1159]", "date_added": "2014-05-17T02:33:15", "body_markdown": "Magic, the trick that connects the ordinary to the impossible, was the invisible river that ran through every street and beating heart in Bombay in those years, and nothing, from the postal service to the pleading of beggars, worked without a measure of it."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 207, "fields": {"book": 486, "page": 153, "location": "[2330, 2333]", "date_added": "2014-05-18T16:07:51", "body_markdown": "our faces, and cleaned our teeth, Rukhmabai stood over Prabaker and me while we ate a solid breakfast of roti and chai. The roti, or unleavened flatbreads, were made fresh for each breakfast, and cooked in a lightly oiled wok on an open fire. The hot, pancake-like bread was filled with a dab of ghee, or purified butter, and a large spoonful of sugar. It was then rolled into a tube, so thick that the hand only just curled around it, and eaten with a mug of hot, sweet, milky tea."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 208, "fields": {"book": 486, "page": 402, "location": "[6155, 6158]", "date_added": "2014-05-24T02:31:00", "body_markdown": "\"The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards,\" Abdul Ghani pronounced in his best Oxford English accent, licking the sweet honey cake from his short, thick fingers. \"The evil men are the power--the rich men, and the politicians, and the fanatics of religion\u2014whose decisions rule the world, and set it on its course of greed and destruction.\""}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 209, "fields": {"book": 486, "page": 403, "location": "[6161, 6166]", "date_added": "2014-05-24T02:31:19", "body_markdown": "\"There are only one million of them, the truly evil men, in the whole world. The very rich and the very powerful, whose decisions really count--they only number one million. The stupid men, who number ten million, are the soldiers and policemen who enforce the rule of the evil men. They are the standing armies of twelve key countries, and the police forces of those and twenty more. In total, there are only ten million of them with any real power or consequence. They are often brave, I'm sure, but they are stupid, too, because they give their lives for governments and causes that use their flesh and blood as mere chess pieces. Those governments always betray them or let them down or abandon them, in the long run. Nations neglect no men more shamefully than the heroes of their wars.\""}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 210, "fields": {"book": 486, "page": 403, "location": "[6170, 6176]", "date_added": "2014-05-24T02:31:54", "body_markdown": "\"And the hundred million cowards,\" Abdul Ghani continued, pinching the handle of the teacup between his plump fingers, \"they are the bureaucrats and paper shufflers and pen-pushers who permit the rule of the evil men, and look the other way. They are the head of this department, and the secretary of that committee, and the president of the other association. They are managers, and officials, and mayors, and officers of the court. They always defend themselves by saying that they are just following orders, or just doing their job, and it's nothing personal, and if they don't do it, someone else surely will. They are the hundred million cowards who know what is going on, but say nothing, while they sign the paper that puts one man before a firing squad, or condemns one million men to the slower death of a famine.\""}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 211, "fields": {"book": 486, "page": 406, "location": "[6211, 6213]", "date_added": "2014-05-24T02:34:52", "body_markdown": "met--he is the only man you will ever meet--who can answer the three big questions.\" \"There are only three big questions?\" I asked, unable to keep the sarcasm from my voice. \"Yes,\" he answered equably. \"Where did we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? Those are the three big questions."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 212, "fields": {"book": 486, "page": 407, "location": "[6235, 6237]", "date_added": "2014-05-24T02:37:32", "body_markdown": "\"we have a saying, in the Pashto language, and the meaning of it is that you are not a man until you give your love, truly and freely, to a child. And you are not a good man until you earn the love, truly and freely, of a child in return.\""}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 213, "fields": {"book": 486, "page": 427, "location": "[6542, 6545]", "date_added": "2014-05-24T02:59:05", "body_markdown": "What characterises the human race more, Karla once asked me, cruelty, or the capacity to feel shame for it? I thought the question acutely clever then, when I first heard it, but I'm lonelier and wiser now, and I know it isn't cruelty or shame that characterises the human race. It's forgiveness that makes us what we are. Without forgiveness, our species would've annihilated itself in endless retributions. Without forgiveness, there would be no history."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 214, "fields": {"book": 486, "page": 428, "location": "[6561, 6563]", "date_added": "2014-05-25T01:38:33", "body_markdown": "I sat alone, on a boulder that was larger and flatter than most, and I smoked a cigarette. I smoked in those days because, like everyone else in the world who smokes, I wanted to die at least as much as I wanted to live."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 215, "fields": {"book": 486, "page": 555, "location": "[8498, 8502]", "date_added": "2014-05-27T02:24:13", "body_markdown": "can describe as random events. The universe has a nature, for and of itself, something like human nature, if you like, and its nature is to combine, and to build, and to become more complex. It always does this. If the circumstances are right, bits of matter will always come together to make more complex arrangements. And this fact about the way that our universe works, this moving towards order, and towards combinations of these ordered things, has a name. In the western science it is called the tendency toward complexity, and it is the way the universe works.\""}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 216, "fields": {"book": 486, "page": 556, "location": "[8512, 8513]", "date_added": "2014-05-27T02:25:17", "body_markdown": "The universe is always doing this. It is always moving from the simple to the complex.\""}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 217, "fields": {"book": 486, "page": 558, "location": "[8545, 8552]", "date_added": "2014-05-27T02:29:09", "body_markdown": "\"When we say that this definition of good and evil is objective, what we mean is that it is as objective as we can be at this time, and to the best of our knowledge about the universe. This definition is based on what we know about how the universe works. It is not based on the revealed wisdom of any one faith or political movement. It is common to the best principles of all of them, but it is based on what we know rather than what we believe. In that sense, it is objective. Of course, what we know about the universe, and our place in it, is constantly changing as we add more information and gain new insights. We are never perfectly objective about anything, that is true, but we can be less objective, or we can be more objective. And when we define good and evil on the basis of what we know--to the best of our knowledge at the present time--we are being as objective as possible within the imperfect limits of our understanding. Do you accept that point?\""}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 218, "fields": {"book": 486, "page": 590, "location": "[9030, 9033]", "date_added": "2014-05-29T02:56:24", "body_markdown": "\"Anarchists ...\" I began and then faltered. \"No political philosophy I ever heard of loves the human race as much as anarchism. Every other way of looking at the world says that people have to be controlled, and ordered around, and governed. Only the anarchists trust human beings enough to let them work it out for themselves. And I used to be that optimistic once. I used to believe and think like that. But I don't, any more. So, no--I guess I'm not an anarchist now.\""}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 219, "fields": {"book": 486, "page": 627, "location": "[9602, 9605]", "date_added": "2014-05-30T02:29:01", "body_markdown": "For them, food is music inside the body, and music is food inside the heart. The language of India and the language of Italy, they make every man a poet, and make something beautiful from every banalite. These are nations where love--amore, pyaar--makes a cavalier of a Borsalino on a street corner, and makes a princess of a peasant girl, if only for the second that her eyes meet yours. It is the secret of my love for India, Lin, that my first great love was Italian.\""}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 220, "fields": {"book": 486, "page": 659, "location": "[10088, 10091]", "date_added": "2014-05-30T03:07:18", "body_markdown": "The city was full of mercenaries, fugitives, criminals, black-market profiteers, and wild-eyed, bare-knuckled opportunists from all over Africa. I felt at home there, and I would've stayed longer, but within seventy-two hours I'd delivered the books and accepted one hundred and twenty thousand dollars in payment. It was Khaderbhai's money. I was anxious to hand it over. I jumped the first flight back to Bombay, and reported to Abdul Ghani."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 221, "fields": {"book": 486, "page": 700, "location": "[10728, 10729]", "date_added": "2014-06-01T01:23:53", "body_markdown": "and a prayer. Everything you ever sense, in touch or taste or sight or even thought, has an effect on you that's greater"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 222, "fields": {"book": 486, "page": 700, "location": "[10728, 10732]", "date_added": "2014-06-01T01:24:01", "body_markdown": "and a prayer. Everything you ever sense, in touch or taste or sight or even thought, has an effect on you that's greater than zero. Some things, like the background sound of a bird chirping as it passes your house in the evening, or a flower glimpsed out of the corner of an eye, have such an infinitesi-mally small effect that you can't detect them. Some things, like triumph and heartbreak, and some images, like the image of yourself reflected in the eyes of a man you've just stabbed, attach themselves to the secret gallery and they change your life forever."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 223, "fields": {"book": 486, "page": 704, "location": "[10782, 10783]", "date_added": "2014-06-01T01:29:25", "body_markdown": "It was black money, and black money runs through the fingers faster than legal, hard-earned money. If we can't respect the way we earn it, money has no value. If we can't use it to make life better for our families and loved ones, money has no purpose."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 224, "fields": {"book": 486, "page": 727, "location": "[11127, 11136]", "date_added": "2014-06-01T02:06:58", "body_markdown": "Heroin is a sensory deprivation tank for the soul. Floating on the Dead Sea of the drug stone, there's no sense of pain, no regret or shame, no feelings of guilt or grief, no depression, and no desire. The sleeping universe enters and envelops every atom of existence. Insensible stillness and peace disperse fear and suffering. Thoughts drift like ocean weeds and vanish in the distant, grey somnolency, unperceived and indeterminable. The body succumbs to cryogenic slumber: the listless heart beats faintly, and breathing slowly fades to random whispers. Thick nirvanic numbness clogs the limbs, and downward, deeper, the sleeper slides and glides toward oblivion, the perfect and eternal stone. That chemical absolution is paid for, like everything else in the universe, with light. The first light that junkies lose is the light in their eyes. A junkie's eyes are as lightless as the eyes of Greek statues, as lightless as hammered lead, as lightless as a bullet hole in a dead man's back. The next light lost is the light of desire. Junkies kill desire with the same weapon they use on hope and dream and honour: the club made from their craving. And when all the other lights of life are gone, the last light lost is the light of love. Sooner or later, when it's down to the last hit, the junkie will give up the woman he loves, rather than go without; sooner or later, every hard junkie becomes a devil in exile."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 225, "fields": {"book": 486, "page": 814, "location": "[12473, 12476]", "date_added": "2014-06-03T02:56:01", "body_markdown": "\"The groom has just sharpened the knife that the bride's father will use on him, if he ever mistreats the girl,\" Khader explained to me as we watched. \"That's a pretty good custom,\" I mused. \"It is not a custom,\" Khader corrected me, with a laugh. \"It is his idea--the bride's father. I have never heard of it before this. But if it works, it might become a custom.\""}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 226, "fields": {"book": 486, "page": 816, "location": "[12511, 12512]", "date_added": "2014-06-03T02:58:57", "body_markdown": "Anyway, he once said, Anything that can be put in a nutshell should remain there. And I do agree with him about that."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 227, "fields": {"book": 486, "page": 816, "location": "[12511, 12512]", "date_added": "2014-06-03T02:59:04", "body_markdown": "Bertrand Russell's conclusions, but I do like the way he arrives at them. Anyway, he once said, Anything that can be put in a nutshell should remain there. And I do agree with him about that."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 228, "fields": {"book": 486, "page": 1046, "location": "[16034, 16038]", "date_added": "2014-06-09T01:39:11", "body_markdown": "Salman and the others, no less than Chuha and the Sapna killers and all the rest of them, were pretending that their little kingdoms made them kings; that their power struggles made them powerful. And they didn't. They couldn't. I saw that then so clearly that it was like understanding a mathematical theorem for the first time. The only kingdom that makes any man a king is the kingdom of his own soul. The only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world. And only men like Qasim Ali Hussein and Johnny Cigar were such kings and had such power."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 229, "fields": {"book": 487, "page": 549, "location": "[8407, 8407]", "date_added": "2014-06-28T16:30:22", "body_markdown": "When you understood what made people happy, you understood them."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 230, "fields": {"book": 488, "page": 32, "location": "[381, 382]", "date_added": "2014-07-02T03:16:22", "body_markdown": "I learnt that pain is only pain: a message. You can choose to ignore the message. Your body can do a great deal more than it wants you to know."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 231, "fields": {"book": 488, "page": 77, "location": "[936, 940]", "date_added": "2014-07-03T02:49:56", "body_markdown": "Think about two young adults who go to college. One is brilliant, a genius who floats above her colleagues like a cirrus cloud, the other is merely a plodder: dogged, determined, competent. Throughout their education, the genius has always been able to leap obstacles as though they\u2019re not there while the plodder has, through necessity, learned patiently to climb walls. One day, say in the second year of their Ph.D. programme, that genius will come across a wall so high even she can\u2019t jump it. But she doesn\u2019t know how to climb. The plodder, on the other hand, rubs his hands, checks his equipment, and starts hammering in the first piton. Who do you think will reach the top first?"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 232, "fields": {"book": 488, "page": 112, "location": "[1366, 1366]", "date_added": "2014-07-04T03:09:26", "body_markdown": "There is one thing Margaret Thatcher said that I agree with: if you have to tell people you\u2019re important, you\u2019re not."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 233, "fields": {"book": 489, "page": 43, "location": "[652, 656]", "date_added": "2014-07-20T02:54:04", "body_markdown": "Toke said that the thing that troubled him most was the fact that the ale was now finished. He was, he assured them, not a fussy man, and he reckoned that he could stomach most things when necessity demanded it, not excluding his sealskin shoes, but only if he had good ale to wash them down. It would be a fearful prospect, he said, to envisage a life without ale, either on sea or ashore; and he questioned the Jew much concerning the quality of the ale in the country to which they were journeying, without, however, being able to extract any very clear information from him on the subject."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 234, "fields": {"book": 490, "page": 21, "location": "[318, 322]", "date_added": "2014-07-26T17:26:28", "body_markdown": "All too often companies respond to business needs by shopping for \u201cproven\u201d solutions, repeatable processes to achieve a desired outcome. They call these \u201cbest practices,\u201d which for many translates into Don\u2019t tell me why something worked, tell me how they did it. Rote, universal solutions exhibit little respect for the individuality of a problem, and epitomize lazy management. Their adoption often spawns professional organizations which certify legions of consultants selling one-size-fits-all processes. The end result is that good initial ideas become codified and ineffective industry dogma."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 235, "fields": {"book": 490, "page": 42, "location": "[642, 650]", "date_added": "2014-07-27T03:00:21", "body_markdown": "After a few days, your DONE column should be getting pretty full, that\u2019s proof you\u2019ve been productive. But Personal Kanban doesn\u2019t stop there. Now it\u2019s time to find out if you\u2019ve been effective. Take a moment to consider the following: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Which tasks did you do particularly well? \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Which tasks made you feel good about yourself? \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Which tasks were difficult to complete? \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Were the right tasks completed at the right time? \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Did the tasks completed provide value? Then ask yourself Why? Congratulations! You just completed your first \u201cretrospective,\u201d a processing loop that lets you give thought to what you\u2019re doing, why and how you\u2019re doing it, what you do best, and where there\u2019s room for improvement."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 236, "fields": {"book": 490, "page": 46, "location": "[702]", "date_added": "2014-07-27T03:06:59", "body_markdown": "we devalue what we accomplish and focus on all the things we have not accomplished yet. no dopamine reward ?"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 237, "fields": {"book": 490, "page": 46, "location": "[699, 702]", "date_added": "2014-07-27T03:07:00", "body_markdown": "So at the end of the day our mental TODAY column is populated with tasks we wanted to have accomplished. We end up preoccupied with our incomplete tasks (remember the Zeigarnik Effect), while devaluing our actual accomplishments. Sure, we may have accomplished some awesome work, but we fail to recognize it because we didn\u2019t accomplish everything we intended to do. Well, everything was probably an unreasonable goal in the first place."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 238, "fields": {"book": 490, "page": 46, "location": "[702, 704]", "date_added": "2014-07-27T03:11:55", "body_markdown": "The TODAY column shows us the difference between what we want to do each day and what we can actually achieve. It shows us how we fall short of our daily goal. Once we understand our actual daily capability, we can set more realistic goals at the beginning of the day, and end the day feeling we\u2019ve been effective."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 239, "fields": {"book": 490, "page": 53, "location": "[800, 802]", "date_added": "2014-07-29T02:40:49", "body_markdown": "Personal Kanban rewards you for recording the good work you\u2019ve done and knowing what comes next. If you can\u2019t remember it, you can\u2019t improve it."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 240, "fields": {"book": 490, "page": 58, "location": "[888, 889]", "date_added": "2014-07-29T02:52:48", "body_markdown": "Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Let me do and I understand. ~Confucius"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 241, "fields": {"book": 490, "page": 58, "location": "[889, 892]", "date_added": "2014-07-29T02:53:34", "body_markdown": "The most natural and effective learning results from doing. More than simply giving us experience, physically engaging in a task from its inception through to its completion teaches us the value and techniques of exercising successful options. We see our tasks, we become aware of their impacts, and we are reminded of their completion. This gives us the background vital for making future decisions."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 242, "fields": {"book": 490, "page": 68, "location": "[1035, 1039]", "date_added": "2014-07-29T10:48:41", "body_markdown": "The more a system relies on a core mechanism to force action, the less sustainable it becomes. Push systems tend to cause bottlenecks by ignoring natural capacity. Work is released downstream whether or not the worker has the capacity to process it. In a push system, capacity problems are discovered after the fact. Work begins to pile up and, as it grows, can easily escalate into an emergency. Because it relies on committing to up-front guesses and does not anticipate the extra work, the push system can only react through costly and lagging responses like overtime, emergency hires, and delay."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 243, "fields": {"book": 490, "page": 71, "location": "[1080, 1080]", "date_added": "2014-07-30T03:10:45", "body_markdown": "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn\u2019t go away. ~Philip K. Dick"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 244, "fields": {"book": 490, "page": 76, "location": "[1165, 1169]", "date_added": "2014-07-30T10:58:16", "body_markdown": "Perhaps productivity isn\u2019t actually our goal. We obsess over getting stuff done, rather than getting the right stuff done, and at the right time. We focus so intently on task completion that we lose sight of the work we\u2019re engaged in. We can\u2019t see our options, our history, or our opportunities for collaboration. In the long run, working like this isn\u2019t only counter-productive, it\u2019s anti-productive."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 245, "fields": {"book": 490, "page": 77, "location": "[1177]", "date_added": "2014-07-30T10:59:48", "body_markdown": "clarity is understanding the why not just the tediun of hows"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 246, "fields": {"book": 490, "page": 78, "location": "[1195, 1197]", "date_added": "2014-07-30T11:02:10", "body_markdown": "productivity should not be the ultimate measure of human potential. While Personal Kanban certainly helps us be more productive, it also helps us become more efficient and more effective."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 247, "fields": {"book": 490, "page": 79, "location": "[1202, 1203]", "date_added": "2014-07-30T11:02:52", "body_markdown": "Psychologist Abraham Maslow referred to these as \u201cpeak experiences\u201d\u2014revelatory or illuminating states of consciousness when we are operating at our best."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 248, "fields": {"book": 490, "page": 82, "location": "[1257, 1259]", "date_added": "2014-07-30T11:07:01", "body_markdown": "Abraham H. Maslow, Religions, Values, and Peak Experiences (New York, Penguin, 1994). 2 Maslow added a spiritual dimension to self-actualization that is beyond the scope of this book."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 249, "fields": {"book": 490, "page": 88, "location": "[1336, 1339]", "date_added": "2014-07-31T02:35:33", "body_markdown": "with or enslaved by the process. We want to avoid becoming mired in detail and committing prematurely. People uniformly spend too much time estimating the size, costs, and impacts of their work. They overplan up front and as context changes, they find themselves endlessly modifying their original assumptions. Planning should occur with minimal waste; it shouldn\u2019t become overhead."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 250, "fields": {"book": 490, "page": 102, "location": "[1555, 1559]", "date_added": "2014-08-05T02:59:29", "body_markdown": "If you want to get all statistical about Personal Kanban, this is the step to do it in. When you create a sticky note, include the date of creation (Born), the date you pull it into READY (Begin), the date you began working on it (WIP), and when you are finished, the date you pull it into DONE (Done). These four data points can be used to analyze your work\u2019s \u201clead time\u201d and \u201ccycle time.\u201d Lead time for Personal Kanban is the amount of time it takes a task to travel from your backlog to completion. Cycle time is the amount of time it takes a task to travel from READY to DONE."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 251, "fields": {"book": 490, "page": 103, "location": "[1574, 1575]", "date_added": "2014-08-05T03:01:03", "body_markdown": "Real-time flexiblity beats rigid up-front planning. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a06.\u00a0\u00a0 Happiness may be the best measure of success."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 252, "fields": {"book": 491, "page": 30, "location": "[456, 459]", "date_added": "2014-07-30T03:25:34", "body_markdown": "We chatted about proboscideans for a while. \u201cThey\u2019re a fascinating group,\u201d he told me. \u201cFor instance, the trunk, which is a change of anatomy in the facial area that is truly extraordinary, it evolved separately five times. Two times\u2014yes, that\u2019s surprising. But it happened five times independently! We are forced to accept this by looking at the fossils.\u201d So far, Tassy said, some 170 proboscidean species have been identified, going back some fifty-five million years, \u201cand this is far from complete, I am sure.\u201d"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 253, "fields": {"book": 491, "page": 61, "location": "[923, 925]", "date_added": "2014-08-05T02:40:11", "body_markdown": "The birds\u2019 innards had been sent to the Royal Museum in Copenhagen; no one could say what had happened to the skins. (Subsequent detective work has traced the skin of the female to an auk now on display at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles.)"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 254, "fields": {"book": 491, "page": 65, "location": "[986, 988]", "date_added": "2014-08-06T02:45:30", "body_markdown": "millennium after millennium. In the uplift that created the Apennine Mountains, the limestone was elevated and tilted at a forty-five-degree angle. To walk up the gorge today is thus to travel, layer by layer, through time. In the space of a few hundred yards, you can cover almost a hundred million years."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 255, "fields": {"book": 491, "page": 87, "location": "[1322, 1326]", "date_added": "2014-08-07T02:00:45", "body_markdown": "At the end of the Ordovician, some 444 million years ago, the oceans emptied out. Something like eighty-five percent of marine species died off. For a long time, the event was regarded as one of those pseudo-catastrophes that just went to show how little the fossil record could be trusted. Today, it\u2019s seen as the first of the Big Five extinctions, and it\u2019s thought to have taken place in two brief, intensely deadly pulses. Though its victims are nowhere near as charismatic as those taken out at the end of the Cretaceous, it, too, marks a turning point in life\u2019s history\u2014a moment when the rules of the game suddenly flipped, with consequences that, for all intents and purposes, will last forever."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 256, "fields": {"book": 491, "page": 89, "location": "[1354, 1356]", "date_added": "2014-08-08T02:37:51", "body_markdown": "\u201cThe change here from black to gray marks a tipping point, if you like, from a habitable sea floor to an uninhabitable one,\u201d he tells me. \u201cAnd one might have seen that in the span of a human lifetime.\u201d He describes this transition as distinctly \u201cCuvierian.\u201d"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 257, "fields": {"book": 491, "page": 92, "location": "[1411, 1413]", "date_added": "2014-08-08T02:43:44", "body_markdown": "Nor does anyone know what caused the change to begin with. One theory has it that the glaciation was produced by the early mosses that colonized the land and, in so doing, helped draw carbon dioxide out of the air. If this is the case, the first mass extinction of animals was caused by plants."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 258, "fields": {"book": 491, "page": 93, "location": "[1422, 1426]", "date_added": "2014-08-08T02:45:17", "body_markdown": "One hypothesis has it that the heating of the oceans favored bacteria that produce hydrogen sulfide, which is poisonous to most other forms of life. According to this scenario, hydrogen sulfide accumulated in the water, killing off marine creatures, then it leaked into the air, killing off most everything else. The sulfate-reducing bacteria changed the color of the oceans and the hydrogen sulfide the color of the heavens; the science writer Carl Zimmer has described the end-Permian world as a \u201ctruly grotesque place\u201d where glassy, purple seas released poisonous bubbles that rose \u201cto a pale green sky.\u201d"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 259, "fields": {"book": 491, "page": 95, "location": "[1447, 1449]", "date_added": "2014-08-08T02:47:55", "body_markdown": "the cities and the factories\u2014will be compressed into a layer of sediment not much thicker than a cigarette paper. \u201cWe have already left a record that is now indelible,\u201d Zalasiewicz has written."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 260, "fields": {"book": 491, "page": 95, "location": "[1449]", "date_added": "2014-08-08T02:49:48", "body_markdown": "we will become sedament the thickness of sinle cigarette paper"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 261, "fields": {"book": 491, "page": 105, "location": "[1610, 1611]", "date_added": "2014-08-09T03:11:23", "body_markdown": "Sarpa salpa, a commonly consumed fish that, on occasion, causes hallucinations; and Arbacia lixula, a sea urchin with a lilac tinge. Also living in the area was Amphiroa rigida,"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 262, "fields": {"book": 491, "page": 106, "location": "[1620, 1622]", "date_added": "2014-08-09T03:12:23", "body_markdown": "\u201cUnfortunately, the biggest tipping point, the one at which the ecosystem starts to crash, is mean pH 7.8, which is what we\u2019re expecting to happen by 2100,\u201d Hall-Spencer tells me, in his understated British manner. \u201cSo that is rather alarming.\u201d"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 263, "fields": {"book": 492, "page": 47, "location": "[714, 715]", "date_added": "2014-09-21T16:01:41", "body_markdown": "PRINCIPLE 1 Don\u2019t criticize, condemn or complain."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 264, "fields": {"book": 492, "page": 57, "location": "[864, 867]", "date_added": "2014-09-21T16:09:52", "body_markdown": "\u201cI consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people,\u201d said Schwab, \u201cthe greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 265, "fields": {"book": 492, "page": 57, "location": "[867, 870]", "date_added": "2014-09-21T16:10:26", "body_markdown": "\u201cThere is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize any- one. I believe in giving a person incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. If I like anything, I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise. \""}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 266, "fields": {"book": 492, "page": 58, "location": "[876, 879]", "date_added": "2014-09-21T16:11:15", "body_markdown": "Schwab declared, \u201cI have yet to find the person, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.\u201d"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 267, "fields": {"book": 492, "page": 64, "location": "[969, 971]", "date_added": "2014-09-21T16:15:58", "body_markdown": "General Obregon\u2019s philosophy: \u201cDon\u2019t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.\u201d"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 268, "fields": {"book": 492, "page": 66, "location": "[1012, 1015]", "date_added": "2014-09-21T23:36:36", "body_markdown": "I shall pass this way but once; any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 269, "fields": {"book": 492, "page": 67, "location": "[1015, 1016]", "date_added": "2014-09-21T23:36:58", "body_markdown": "Emerson said: \u201cEvery man I meet is my superior in some way, In that, I learn of him.\u201d"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 270, "fields": {"book": 492, "page": 67, "location": "[1023, 1024]", "date_added": "2014-09-21T23:37:20", "body_markdown": "PRINCIPLE 2 Give honest and sincere appreciation. \u00a0"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 271, "fields": {"book": 492, "page": 94, "location": "[1435, 1435]", "date_added": "2014-09-22T01:42:09", "body_markdown": "PRINCIPLE 3 Arouse in the other person an eager want."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 272, "fields": {"book": 492, "page": 96, "location": "[1469, 1471]", "date_added": "2014-09-22T01:43:39", "body_markdown": "You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 273, "fields": {"book": 492, "page": 100, "location": "[1525, 1527]", "date_added": "2014-09-22T01:46:40", "body_markdown": "am grateful because these people come to see me, They make it possible for me to make my living in a very agreeable way. I\u2019m going to give them the very best I possibly can.\u201d"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 274, "fields": {"book": 492, "page": 114, "location": "[1739, 1739]", "date_added": "2014-09-30T01:59:22", "body_markdown": "Become genuinely interested in other people."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 275, "fields": {"book": 492, "page": 122, "location": "[1860, 1861]", "date_added": "2014-09-30T02:04:58", "body_markdown": "\u201cThere is nothing either good or bad,\u201d said Shakespeare, \u201cbut thinking makes it so.\u201d"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 276, "fields": {"book": 492, "page": 126, "location": "[1923, 1923]", "date_added": "2014-09-30T02:07:48", "body_markdown": "PRINCIPLE 2 Smile."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 277, "fields": {"book": 492, "page": 139, "location": "[2127, 2129]", "date_added": "2014-09-30T02:19:14", "body_markdown": "PRINCIPLE 3 Remember that a person\u2019s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 278, "fields": {"book": 492, "page": 154, "location": "[2354, 2355]", "date_added": "2014-09-30T04:44:07", "body_markdown": "PRINCIPLE 4 Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 279, "fields": {"book": 492, "page": 160, "location": "[2451, 2451]", "date_added": "2014-10-09T02:46:06", "body_markdown": "PRINCIPLE 5 Talk in terms of the other person\u2019s interests."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 280, "fields": {"book": 493, "page": 39, "location": "[596, 598]", "date_added": "2014-09-27T01:52:13", "body_markdown": "There\u2019s a complicated system of illusions and self-deception that are the given framework for most discussion and debate. And if you don\u2019t happen to take part in that system of illusions and self-deception, what you say is incomprehensible."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 281, "fields": {"book": 493, "page": 41, "location": "[616, 619]", "date_added": "2014-09-27T16:07:13", "body_markdown": "There\u2019s been a good deal of antagonism between the anarchist movements and the intelligentsia, for quite understandable reasons. Anarchism offers no position of privilege or power to the intelligentsia. In fact, it undermines that position. As a result, it\u2019s not particularly attractive to many of them and in fact, the number of anarchist intellectuals, though there are some, has been quite limited as compared with those who associated themselves with one or another variety of so-called Marxism, or state socialism. So that\u2019s one reason."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 282, "fields": {"book": 493, "page": 42, "location": "[638, 641]", "date_added": "2014-09-27T16:09:56", "body_markdown": "I think Bakunin\u2019s remarks on this subject are perceptive: that the intelligentsia tend to associate themselves with the state-socialist and state-capitalist visions which would assign them a managerial role, including the role of ideological managers of \u201cthe engineering of consent,\u201d as democratic theorists call it. And, of course, modern societies have often offered intellectuals a good deal of just plain privilege as well."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 283, "fields": {"book": 493, "page": 46, "location": "[699, 705]", "date_added": "2014-09-27T16:25:39", "body_markdown": "One should be cautious about trying to draw historical lessons. Each situation is unlike every other one, though one can perhaps learn something. In general, options are very few. We are not in the eighteenth century, when American colonists, who lived in what was even then probably the richest country in the world, could proceed to eliminate the indigenous population, extend their borders through conquest, enslave a large work force when it was needed, absorb a flow of cheap labor and needed capital while developing the unparalleled resources of the region they occupied, quite safe from the depredations of the great powers of Europe that were immersed in their own conflicts, and becoming after a century the world\u2019s richest and most powerful state. Such luxuries are not available to developing countries today."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 284, "fields": {"book": 493, "page": 49, "location": "[743, 747]", "date_added": "2014-09-27T16:30:13", "body_markdown": "American dissidents face a dilemma. They have to face the fact that they are living in a state with enormous power, used for murderous and destructive ends. And what we do, the very acts that we perform, will be exploited where possible for those ends. Honest people will have to face the fact that they are morally responsible for the predictable human consequences of their acts. One of those acts is accurate criticism, accurate critical analysis of authoritarian state socialism in North Vietnam or in Cuba or in other countries that the United States is trying to undermine and subvert."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 285, "fields": {"book": 493, "page": 49, "location": "[747, 750]", "date_added": "2014-09-27T16:30:33", "body_markdown": "The consequences of accurate critical analysis will be to buttress these efforts, thus contributing to suffering and oppression. These are dilemmas which are hard to deal with. They are not unique to the United States. Should an honest Russian dissident, for example, publicly denounce the atrocities and oppressive character of the Afghan resistance, knowing that such accurate criticism will be exploited in support of Soviet aggression?"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 286, "fields": {"book": 493, "page": 52, "location": "[789, 792]", "date_added": "2014-09-27T16:34:55", "body_markdown": "I don\u2019t mean to suggest that this is a fair characterization of the work of those individuals who call themselves \u201cMarxists\u201d or \u201cFreudians.\u201d But the fact that such concepts persist and are taken seriously is a sign of the intellectual inadequacy of the traditions, and probably hampers their further development. We should not be worshiping at shrines, but learning what we can from people who had something serious to say, or who did something valuable in their lives, while trying to overcome the inevitable errors and flaws."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 287, "fields": {"book": 493, "page": 69, "location": "[1052, 1054]", "date_added": "2015-06-18T01:46:42", "body_markdown": "I think this illustrates something which is fairly standard; that the real world is much more easily understood among people who really have to deal with the facts than among those one of whose functions is the creation of ideological cover and support for the doctrines of the faith."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 288, "fields": {"book": 494, "page": 138, "location": "[2106, 2131]", "date_added": "2014-10-15T01:51:46", "body_markdown": "INDIVIDUAL ONE Although she was born in a country of ample skies and capacious landscapes, she was afflicted, and from her earliest years, with feelings of being confined. It seemed to her that she ought to be able to find within herself memories of some larger experience, deeper skies. But she did not possess these memories. The society around her seemed petty, piffling, to the point of caricature. As a child she could not believe that the adults were serious in the games they played. Everything done and said seemed a repetition, or a recycling, as if they were puppets in a play being staged over and over again. Afflicted by an enormous claustrophobia, she refused all the normal developments possible to her, and as soon as she was self-supporting left her family and that society. How she earned her living was of no importance to her. She went to another city in the same continent, but there everything seemed the same. Not only identical patterns of thought and behaviour, but the people she met tended to be friends or relatives of those she had left. She moved to another city, another - and then to a different continent. While there was a general conspiracy - so it seemed to her - to agree that this culture was different from the one she had left in ways meriting a thousand books and treatises political, psychological, economic, sociological, philosophical, and religious - on the contrary, to her it seemed the same. A different language, or languages. Slightly more generous in one way - how women were treated, for instance. Worse in another: children had a bad time of it. Animals respected here but not there - and so on. But the patterns of human bondage - which was how she saw it - did not seem to vary much. And, no matter where she travelled, she met no new people. This man encountered in an improbable situation - by chance in a laundrette or at a bus stop - would turn out to be a relation of an acquaintance in another city, or a friend of a family she had known as a child. She left again, choosing an \"old\" society - which was how Shikastans would see it - more complex, textured, various, than those she had known. Again, differences were emphasized where she could see only resemblances. She earned her living as she could, in ways that could not bind her, would not marry, and had three abortions, because the men did not seem to her to be originally enough minted from the human stock to make their progeny worthwhile. And she could not meet new, different people. She understood she was in, or on, some invisible mesh or template, envisioned by her in bad black moods as a vast spider web, where all the people and events were interconnected, and nothing she could do, ever, would free her. And never could she say anything of what she felt, for she would not be understood. What she saw, others did not. What she heard, they could not. She was in a certain country in the Northwest fringes. It occurred to her that this move of hers, to this country, which had cost her, so she had imagined, a good deal of effort in the way of choosing right, this great self-transportation, had not been her will at all: it was her father's. He had always wanted, so she now recalled, to live in this particular city, this country, and in a certain way. While she had not duplicated his dreamed-of way of life - for it had become obsolete - she was living a contemporary equivalence. Shortly after this discovery, she found herself outside a door in a street she had never been in before, to visit a doctor, and remembered that the address was one an aunt had lived in: she had written letters here from her home country."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 289, "fields": {"book": 494, "page": 159, "location": "[2438, 2440]", "date_added": "2014-10-15T02:22:45", "body_markdown": "I digress here to the incredulity referred to in my report on Individual Three, who spent years examining the deprivations of the people around him with: How is it possible? I simply don't believe it! Meaning partly: Why do they put up with it? Meaning, too: That human beings should treat each other like this? I don't believe it!"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 290, "fields": {"book": 494, "page": 204, "location": "[3117, 3122]", "date_added": "2014-10-16T01:37:56", "body_markdown": "\"And this is the point, you see, this is always the point which they must remember: that every child has the capacity to be everything. A child was a miracle, a wonder! A child held all the history of the human race, that stretched back, back, further than they could imagine. Yes, this one here, little Otilie, she had in the substance of her body and her thoughts everything that had ever happened to every person of mankind. Just as a loaf of bread holds in it all the substance of all the wheat grains that have gone into it, mingled with all the grain of that harvest, and the substance of the field that has grown it, so this child was kneaded together by, and contained, all the harvest of mankind."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 291, "fields": {"book": 494, "page": 240, "location": "[3670, 3672]", "date_added": "2014-10-17T02:05:19", "body_markdown": "The lowest, the most downtrodden, the most miserable of Shikastans, will watch the wind moving a plant, and smile; will plant a seed and watch it grow; will stand to watch the life of the clouds. Or lie pleasurably awake in the dark, hearing wind howl that cannot - not this time - harm him where he lies safe. This is where strength has always welled, irrepressibly, into every creature of Shikasta."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 292, "fields": {"book": 494, "page": 351, "location": "[5370, 5374]", "date_added": "2014-10-21T02:46:10", "body_markdown": "That was a time when this earth had close links with the stars and their forces... does this annoy you, Sharma? You probably think it not useful. You are a very practical girl, and I admire you for it. Any situation offered to you - in no time you have grasped it, summed it up, seen how it may develop into the future. It is a capacity rooted in the deepest part of your nature - you value the capacity but not what it is rooted in! There isn't anything I value in you I could tell you about, and you would be pleased! Do you know that? Isn't that amazing? You think I value what you value in yourself - your cleverness, your"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 293, "fields": {"book": 494, "page": 353, "location": "[5408, 5411]", "date_added": "2014-10-21T02:49:33", "body_markdown": "The reek of blood going up from this planet must be in somebody's nostrils. Somebody needs it. Something. There isn't anything that doesn't have a function. What happens always fits in with everything. What happens is needed by something. It happens because it is drawn out of a situation by need. There isn't anything that happens that is extraneous. There is somebody or something that needs this savagery and the blood."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 294, "fields": {"book": 494, "page": 385, "location": "[5889, 5894]", "date_added": "2014-10-22T01:38:42", "body_markdown": "\"I open this Trial with an indictment. This is the indictment. That it is the white races of this world that have destroyed it, corrupted it, made possible the wars that have ruined it, have laid the basis for the war that we all fear, have poisoned the seas, and the waters, and the air, have stolen everything for themselves, have laid waste the goodness of the earth from the North to the South, and from East to West, have behaved always with arrogance, and contempt, and barbarity towards others, and have been above all guilty of the supreme crime of stupidity - and must now accept the burden of culpability, as murderers, thieves and destroyers, for the dreadful situation we now all find ourselves in.\""}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 295, "fields": {"book": 495, "page": 8, "location": "[123, 123]", "date_added": "2014-10-25T02:23:08", "body_markdown": "I wouldn't send that guy out for sandwiches!"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 296, "fields": {"book": 495, "page": 89, "location": "[1360, 1363]", "date_added": "2014-10-26T03:34:20", "body_markdown": "\"That's ruins,\" Father said. \"We eat when we're not hungry, drink when we're not thirsty, buy what we don't need, and throw away everything that's useful. Don't sell a man what he wants - sell him what he doesn't want. Pretend he's got eight feet and two stomachs and money to burn. That's not illogical - it's evil.\""}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 297, "fields": {"book": 495, "page": 145, "location": "[2212, 2216]", "date_added": "2014-11-09T08:55:50", "body_markdown": "\"Right now,\" Father said dreamily, \"someone over there in America is painting yellow lines on a road, and someone else is wrapping half an onion in a blister of supermarket cellophane, or putting an electric squeezer down the garbage disposal and saying, 'It's busted.' Someone's just opened a can of chocolate-flavored soup in a beautiful kitchen, because he can't get his car started, to eat out. He really wanted a cheeseburger. Someone just poisoned himself with a sausage of red nitrate, and he's smiling because it tasted so good. And they're all cursing the president. They want him retooled.\""}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 298, "fields": {"book": 496, "page": 1, "location": "[12, 21]", "date_added": "2014-11-12T04:00:42", "body_markdown": "Once upon a time, when I was young, I believed things easily, both religious and political; now I believe less and less. But I wonder about more\u2026 I think it likely that our view of ourselves as a species on this planet now is inaccurate, and will strike those who come after us as inadequate as the world view of let\u2019s say, the inhabitants of Guinea seems to us. That our current view of ourselves as a species is wrong. That we know very little about what is going on. That a great deal of is going on is not told to ordinary citizens, but remains the of property of small castes and juntas. I wonder and I speculate about all kinds of ideas that our education deems absurd\u2014as of course do most of the inhabitants of this globe. If I were a physicist there would be no trouble at all! They can talk nonchalantly about black holes swallowing stars, black holes that we might learn to use as mechanisms for achieving time-and-space warps, sliding through them by way of mathematical legerdemain to find ourselves in realms where the laws of our universe do not apply. They nonchalantly suggest parallel universes, universes that lie intermeshed with ours but invisible to us, universes where time runs backwards, or that mirror ours."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 299, "fields": {"book": 496, "page": 2, "location": "[22, 23]", "date_added": "2014-11-12T04:01:02", "body_markdown": "J. B. S. Haldane\u2019s \u201cNow my suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.\u201d"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 300, "fields": {"book": 497, "page": 23, "location": "[340, 342]", "date_added": "2014-11-29T02:05:24", "body_markdown": "There were a few of us who long ago had come privately to think that this sacredness and holiness was foolish, but we talked about our thoughts only with each other. We had learned from Canopus that argument does not teach children, or the immature. Only time and experience does that."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 301, "fields": {"book": 498, "page": 26, "location": "[399, 401]", "date_added": "2015-06-21T01:32:40", "body_markdown": "\u201cAs I say, there were many in Germany who recognized this story as rank mythology. They were nevertheless held captive by it simply because the vast majority around them thought it sounded wonderful and were willing to give their lives to make it a reality. Do you see what I mean?\u201d"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 302, "fields": {"book": 498, "page": 27, "location": "[403, 407]", "date_added": "2015-06-21T01:33:06", "body_markdown": "\u201cThat\u2019s right. Even if you privately thought the whole thing was madness, you had to play your part, you had to take your place in the story. The only way to avoid that was to escape from Germany entirely.\u201d \u201cTrue.\u201d \u201cDo you understand why I\u2019m telling you this?\u201d \u201cI think so, but I\u2019m not sure.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m telling you this because the people of your culture are in much the same situation. Like the people of Nazi Germany, they are the captives of a story.\u201d"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 303, "fields": {"book": 499, "page": 27, "location": "[406, 411]", "date_added": "2015-06-24T00:27:28", "body_markdown": "Soon my own anger was explained and done with; but curiosity remained. How explain the anger of the professors? Why were they angry? For when it came to analysing the impression left by these books there was always an element of heat. This heat took many forms; it showed itself in satire, in sentiment, in curiosity, in reprobation. But there was another element which was often present and could not immediately be identified. Anger, I called it. But it was anger that had gone underground and mixed itself with all kinds of other emotions. To judge from its odd effects, it was anger disguised and complex, not anger simple and open. Whatever the reason, all these books,"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 304, "fields": {"book": 499, "page": 29, "location": "[433, 445]", "date_added": "2015-06-24T00:31:04", "body_markdown": "man with all this power should be angry. Or is anger, I wondered, somehow, the familiar, the attendant sprite on power? Rich people, for example, are often angry because they suspect that the poor want to seize their wealth. The professors, or patriarchs, as it might be more accurate to call them, might be angry for that reason partly, but partly for one that lies a little less obviously on the surface. Possibly they were not 'angry' at all; often, indeed, they were admiring, devoted, exemplary in the relations of private life. Possibly when the professor insisted a little too emphatically upon the inferiority of women, he was concerned not with their inferiority, but with his own superiority. That was what he was protecting rather hot-headedly and with too much emphasis, because it was a jewel to him of the rarest price. Life for both sexes\u2014and I looked at them, shouldering their way along the pavement\u2014is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for gigantic courage and strength. More than anything, perhaps, creatures of illusion as we are, it calls for confidence in oneself. Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable, most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to one self. By feeling that one has some innate superiority\u2014it may be wealth, or rank, a straight nose, or the portrait of a grandfather by Romney\u2014for there is no end to the pathetic devices of the human imagination\u2014over other people. Hence the enormous importance to a patriarch who has to conquer, who has to rule, of feeling that great numbers of people, half the human race indeed, are by nature inferior to himself. It must indeed be one of the chief sources of his power."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 305, "fields": {"book": 499, "page": 36, "location": "[550, 551]", "date_added": "2015-06-24T00:51:30", "body_markdown": "A very queer, composite being thus emerges. Imaginatively she is of the highest importance; practically she is completely insignificant."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 306, "fields": {"book": 499, "page": 36, "location": "[550, 553]", "date_added": "2015-06-24T00:51:48", "body_markdown": "A very queer, composite being thus emerges. Imaginatively she is of the highest importance; practically she is completely insignificant. She pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent from history. She dominates the lives of kings and conquerors in fiction; in fact she was the slave of any boy whose parents forced a ring upon her finger. Some of the most inspired words, some of the most profound thoughts in literature fall from her lips; in real life she could hardly read, could scarcely spell, and was the property of her husband."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 307, "fields": {"book": 499, "page": 54, "location": "[824, 827]", "date_added": "2015-06-25T01:56:43", "body_markdown": "Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for. It might still be well to sneer at 'blue stockings with an itch for scribbling', but it could not be denied that they could put money in their purses. Thus, towards the end of the eighteenth century a change came about which, if I were rewriting history, I should describe more fully and think of greater importance than the Crusades or the Wars of the Roses. The middle-class woman began to write."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 308, "fields": {"book": 499, "page": 82, "location": "[1250, 1255]", "date_added": "2015-06-28T02:20:46", "body_markdown": "But the sight of the two people getting into the taxi and the satisfaction it gave me made me also ask whether there are two sexes in the mind corresponding to the two sexes in the body, and whether they also require to be united in order to get complete satisfaction and happiness? And I went on amateurishly to sketch a plan of the soul so that in each of us two powers preside, one male, one female; and in the man's brain the man predominates over the woman, and in the woman's brain the woman predominates over the man. The normal and comfortable state of being is that when the two live in harmony together, spiritually co-operating. If one is a man, still the woman part of his brain must have effect; and a woman also must have intercourse with the man in her."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 309, "fields": {"book": 499, "page": 82, "location": "[1255, 1255]", "date_added": "2015-06-28T02:20:58", "body_markdown": "Coleridge perhaps meant this when he said that a great mind is androgynous."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 310, "fields": {"book": 499, "page": 92, "location": "[1398, 1401]", "date_added": "2015-06-28T02:39:50", "body_markdown": "no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream. For I am by no means confining you to fiction. If you would please me\u2014and there are thousands like me\u2014you would write books of travel and adventure, and research and scholarship, and history and biography, and criticism and philosophy and science."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 311, "fields": {"book": 499, "page": 93, "location": "[1416, 1417]", "date_added": "2015-06-28T02:42:11", "body_markdown": "For the reading of these books seems to perform a curious couching operation on the senses; one sees more intensely afterwards; the world seems bared of its covering and given an intenser life."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 312, "fields": {"book": 499, "page": 3, "location": "[46, 47]", "date_added": "2015-06-29T01:58:08", "body_markdown": "At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial\u2014and any question about sex is that\u2014one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 313, "fields": {"book": 500, "page": 39, "location": "[586, 589]", "date_added": "2015-07-08T01:34:39", "body_markdown": "Cruising feels normal again. I can write on this computer without having to grip it with one hand and type with the other. When I am underway I begin to dwell in a fantasy in which I meet life's grand purpose by simply moving the boat through the water. Not too fast or too slow, and with small worry about getting any particular place. So I guess the secret role of the boat's electronic gear and its problems is to keep me from lapsing into a terrifyingly natural state."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 314, "fields": {"book": 500, "page": 155, "location": "[2365, 2367]", "date_added": "2015-07-16T02:14:38", "body_markdown": "Am I beginning to sound like one of those single handers that loses his way on the reality road map and starts talking to his boat? Well, nothing is simple if you examine it closely \u2014 I am by nature a scientist, my boat is really only plastic and wood, but \u2014 but she is as alive as any person I have known, and more alive than some."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 315, "fields": {"book": 500, "page": 155, "location": "[2367, 2371]", "date_added": "2015-07-16T02:15:06", "body_markdown": "Look at it this way. If you are rewarded for diligence and punished for misbehavior by a piece of plastic, someday it will come to you that the hunk of plastic meets the basic condition we use to distinguish people from things \u2014 coherence and consistency. This means two things: we have silly ways to tell people from things, also a good boat can pass a test that some people might fail. But you want to be a rational person, you want to keep your scientific outlook. So you say \"She is just a piece of plastic\" and you smile."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 316, "fields": {"book": 500, "page": 157, "location": "[2397, 2399]", "date_added": "2015-07-18T01:52:11", "body_markdown": "On long crossings I sometimes take sextant sights just to pass the time, and I have wondered how accurate a sextant is under controlled conditions. Now I know it is as good as a modern electronic wonder like satnav (some old-time sailors say \"better\")."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 317, "fields": {"book": 500, "page": 164, "location": "[2507, 2512]", "date_added": "2015-07-18T02:03:58", "body_markdown": "I think you learn the basic lesson of the sea by watching a wave bash a sea-wall. After that you know what must be done. You give the sea what it wants. You mustn't give too much or too little, and it must be on time. You either wake up and change the sails or the sea rips them for you. There's no hearing, no appeal, no excuse. And no jury. If the sea takes you, you can't blame a corrupt system of justice. Maybe you bought the wrong boat. Or you sailed when storms are likely. Or, worst of all, you were disrespectful. I think you can learn to have a flawless lunch with Queen Elizabeth more quickly than pass muster with the sea. Meaning no disrespect to the Queen."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 318, "fields": {"book": 500, "page": 165, "location": "[2523, 2529]", "date_added": "2015-07-18T02:06:06", "body_markdown": "There are some remedies. The most effective is not to have a rudder post. On my boat there's a big stick called the tiller, which runs off the back of the boat and attaches to the top of the rudder \u2014 so I don't need a rudder post. It's an old-fashioned, even ancient arrangement. Nobody thinks I have a race boat, but I have one less hole for water to come in. Another trick is to have a tube inside the hull, surrounding the rudder post and rising with it above the waterline. So if the rudder seal fails, the water can only fill the tube, not the boat. The most dramatic solution, assuming you are stuck with a rudder post, is to disconnect the post from the steering gear and let it drop out the bottom of the boat, then \u2014 quickly! \u2014 plug the hole. Now the boat won't sink, but you can't steer it either."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 319, "fields": {"book": 500, "page": 169, "location": "[2587, 2590]", "date_added": "2015-07-18T02:12:24", "body_markdown": "Then the wind died completely, and I decided I would sail just with sunlight \u2014 the pressure of light on one side of the sail would push me along. This is what happens when you spend too much time in the tropics \u2014 it's called \"going troppo.\" But when I put the sail in position, the boat actually started moving \u2014 and I realized the hot side of the sail was heating the nearby air and pushing me a tiny bit."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 320, "fields": {"book": 500, "page": 174, "location": "[2666, 2671]", "date_added": "2015-07-18T02:20:39", "body_markdown": "very much want to tell you that I whistled a tune as I toweled off my charts and electronic gear, but I was just too tired, scared and angry. I was completely wet and I hadn't even made out Panama's lights for my trouble. I crouched in the cabin and screamed my frustration. I said unkind things about the sea. I used words normally reserved for women of low character, usually spoken by men of low character. I tried to invent new oaths. This was different from several years ago. There was no terror, no respectful silence now. I was in the position of the child that knows it is loved unconditionally. I was disrespectful to the sea because I know she loves me. She will punish me, perhaps even kill me, but she will not stop loving me. I know this."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 321, "fields": {"book": 500, "page": 175, "location": "[2674, 2677]", "date_added": "2015-07-18T02:21:21", "body_markdown": "Yes, yes, I know what you're thinking \u2014 why is a grown man talking this way? For your answer, you must hear a minimalist composition performed by the wind, watch dolphins play in moonlight, and listen to the whales singing as you are rocked to sleep by the sea. If this happens to you once, you are still fit material for human company. If it happens to you every night for several years, you can visit the people who live on land, but you will not belong to them ever again."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 322, "fields": {"book": 500, "page": 179, "location": "[2730, 2733]", "date_added": "2015-07-19T02:51:16", "body_markdown": "A few days ago a group of six birds (sooty shearwater, puffineus griseus) landed on the boat when the headwind was strong. I guess they wanted to go West like me and got tired of flying. In the evening they crowded along the bow rail and looked cute, so I let them stay. The next morning the entire boat was covered in bird droppings. Some of the flock had taken positions on the mast spreaders during the night and, well, do you know the term \"carpet-bombing?\" So I chased them off, then washed my boat."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 323, "fields": {"book": 500, "page": 180, "location": "[2749, 2757]", "date_added": "2015-07-19T02:54:16", "body_markdown": "I put the binoculars aside and checked my sails. Then I saw something scary \u2014 my mast-head light had gone out! I've gotten adjusted to not having radar any more, but sailing without navigation lights is asking for trouble. I checked the switches and circuit breakers with no result. I quickly realized there was only one remedy \u2014 I would have to climb the mast and replace the bulb. And it would have to be now, both because the water is calmer at night, and I didn't want to sail a dark boat even one night. I took down the sails to slow the boat as much as possible, and put the ladder over the side (in case I fell off the mast and wasn't killed, I could swim back and climb aboard). But once the sails came down the boat started bobbing like a cork and the mast swung wildly. I started up the mast, taking a step when the boat wasn't rolling and holding on when it was. I managed to get halfway up when two sooty shearwaters suddenly took flight with a squawk, almost hitting me with their little wet calling cards. These two miserable birds had been perched on top of my mast on either side of the navigation light, blocking it from view! Little web-footed gangsters."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 324, "fields": {"book": 500, "page": 181, "location": "[2765, 2766]", "date_added": "2015-07-19T02:55:23", "body_markdown": "In Israel I met an American sailor who doesn't worry about these things \u2014 he has almost no electronic equipment, and he sleeps a lot. He crashed into a freighter in the Red Sea. His bow was squashed but he was all right. Hey man \u2014 no problem."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 325, "fields": {"book": 500, "page": 185, "location": "[2834, 2836]", "date_added": "2015-07-19T03:02:23", "body_markdown": "In the desert you can read nature's unblemished handwriting. No signs tell you why an anthill is in a particular place \u2014 there are plenty of walks, none of them interpretive. And in a few days the silence of the desert gets inside you, infects you with a sense of eternity, and the certain irrelevance of all our works."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 326, "fields": {"book": 500, "page": 189, "location": "[2896, 2899]", "date_added": "2015-07-20T03:19:09", "body_markdown": "In America we have better goods in greater quantity than anywhere in the world. So why do we turn customers into robots, and markets into automated factories? At the mall I forgot where I was for a moment \u2014 I turned to a salesman and said \"This is too much \u2014 I can't afford this \u2014 how about --\" but then I saw the expression on his face, the curious look of an entomologist who has just found an alien bug."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 327, "fields": {"book": 500, "page": 198, "location": "[3025, 3033]", "date_added": "2015-07-21T03:52:37", "body_markdown": "I know some of the reasons for this decline in thinking power. First, public schools tell you what to think instead of teaching how to think. In public school there's an answer to every question \u2014 it's simply a matter of consulting the right authority. In real life the most interesting questions have no known answers, or several answers of equal value. But public schools can't prepare you for real life because they are financed by governments. Governments prefer citizens who don't think for themselves, and absolutely love citizens that cannot think at all. Another reason is the isolation of science from everyday life. Scientists once walked among mortals, but now they are paid by governments and large corporations to work on problems that often have no connection with everyday life. Only rarely does a scientist try to explain science, or scientific reasoning, to the public. Most scientists don't have the time, between teaching more young scientists and trying to conduct research. I worry that science will become something understood and practiced only by specialists, and the skeptical, rigorous scientific outlook will vanish from the lives of ordinary people."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 328, "fields": {"book": 500, "page": 200, "location": "[3060, 3063]", "date_added": "2015-07-21T03:55:50", "body_markdown": "According to the World Almanac I carry on board, an average American uses about 160 gallons of fresh water per day. This doesn't count really obscene things like washing cars and watering lawns. The average household uses 107,000 gallons per year. With the water used by one American house I could save an African village \u2014 if I could just get it there. Then I would teach family planning. But I wouldn't just teach it there."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 329, "fields": {"book": 501, "page": 2349, "location": "[36012, 36013]", "date_added": "2015-08-05T02:22:26", "body_markdown": "Children never forget injustice. They forgive heaps of things grown-up people mind; but that sin is the unpardonable sin."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 330, "fields": {"book": 502, "page": 8, "location": "[112, 112]", "date_added": "2015-08-11T09:33:07", "body_markdown": "Arise. Piss. Pull on pants and boots. Build a fire."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 331, "fields": {"book": 502, "page": 31, "location": "[467, 469]", "date_added": "2015-08-12T00:36:50", "body_markdown": "that something was. \u201cTranscendence,\u201d Abbey wrote in his journal. \u201cIt is this which haunts me night and day. The desire to transcend my own limits, to exceed myself, to become more than I am. Why? I don\u2019t know. To transcend this job, this work, this place, this kind of life\u2014for the sake of something superlative, supreme, exalting.\u201d"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 332, "fields": {"book": 502, "page": 34, "location": "[514, 519]", "date_added": "2015-08-12T00:45:23", "body_markdown": "We shouldn\u2019t inhabit it like a bunch of drunken raiders. We shouldn\u2019t come to a place, core it out, and leave behind the husk. Both his experience and his studies had taught him that this had historically been the most common relationship of man to western land, or at least of post-aboriginal man. Men came to the West to get something and get out. At that they had done a fine job, masters of extraction. One of the first things they extracted from the West, for instance, had been beavers, and they had done so at such a startling clip that the trade went from boom to nonexistent in less than a decade. Ditto buffalo, trees, gold, silver, you name it. They approached the new land with a kind of chronic rapacity, a gnawing hunger."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 333, "fields": {"book": 502, "page": 37, "location": "[556, 561]", "date_added": "2015-08-12T00:49:51", "body_markdown": "DeVoto decried \u201cthe economy of liquidation\u201d that had prevailed in the West since it was first settled, a philosophy that applied to aquifers and farms as well as mines. In the West \u201cthe miner\u2019s right to exploit transcends all other rights whatsoever.\u201d As for agriculture, it soon became clear that it was impossible without irrigation, and that irrigation itself was impossible without the massive dams that only the federal government could build. Which, combined with the fact that much grazing and mining occurred on public land, made westerners chronically dependent on government help. In fact, contrary to the image of rugged individualism, westerners were more dependent on help and community than any other region. Dams, irrigation, free private use of public land. It all amounted to a rugged, beautiful, and wild welfare state."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 334, "fields": {"book": 502, "page": 42, "location": "[640, 643]", "date_added": "2015-08-12T01:17:50", "body_markdown": "The predictions are consistent. Drought is, by definition, an anomalous word, but what we now call drought will become the norm. And with that as a new baseline, the droughts will be of a sort the region hasn\u2019t seen since the Middle Ages, when so-called megadroughts drove the Puebloan people from the region."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 335, "fields": {"book": 502, "page": 60, "location": "[913, 913]", "date_added": "2015-08-12T01:41:38", "body_markdown": "\u201cOur where determines our who,\u201d Reg Saner once wrote."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 336, "fields": {"book": 502, "page": 61, "location": "[924, 928]", "date_added": "2015-08-12T01:42:50", "body_markdown": "We are a wheeled people; it seems to me sometimes that I must have been born with a steering wheel in my hands, and I realize now that to lose the use of a car is practically equivalent to losing the use of my legs. Returning to the road after a layoff of several years is like re-establishing intimacy with a wife or a lover. There are a hundred things once known and long forgotten that crowd forward upon the senses, and there is the sharp thrill of recognition in all of them."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 337, "fields": {"book": 502, "page": 125, "location": "[1913, 1914]", "date_added": "2015-08-14T02:25:04", "body_markdown": "Mark Twain, who saw the prototypical congressman as having \u201cthe smallest mind and the selfishest soul and the cowardliest heart that God makes.\u201d"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 338, "fields": {"book": 502, "page": 176, "location": "[2694, 2695]", "date_added": "2015-08-15T02:41:46", "body_markdown": "\u201cLaw is created to define and defend the economic system,\u201d Loeffler said."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 339, "fields": {"book": 502, "page": 177, "location": "[2703, 2704]", "date_added": "2015-08-15T02:42:35", "body_markdown": "\u201cNever before in history have slaves been so well fed, thoroughly medicated, lavishly entertained\u2014but we are slaves nonetheless.\u201d"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 340, "fields": {"book": 502, "page": 236, "location": "[3613, 3614]", "date_added": "2015-08-17T01:05:58", "body_markdown": "We pulled up at the house and headed inside. But first I noticed the doormat. COME BACK WITH A WARRANT, it read."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 341, "fields": {"book": 502, "page": 240, "location": "[3671, 3672]", "date_added": "2015-08-17T01:10:46", "body_markdown": "\u201cOne thing I know is that the inward way is not the way,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s a trap. Anything that gets you outside of yourself is good. Don\u2019t look inside for salvation. Go spend a little time alone in the wilderness.\u201d"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 342, "fields": {"book": 502, "page": 242, "location": "[3702, 3702]", "date_added": "2015-08-17T01:13:22", "body_markdown": "\u201cWe need wilderness because we are wild animals,\u201d Ed Abbey said."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 343, "fields": {"book": 502, "page": 248, "location": "[3793, 3794]", "date_added": "2015-08-18T03:16:56", "body_markdown": "\u201cThe exacerbated personal freedom of the frontier left us with myths, a folklore, a set of illusions, that are often comically at odds with the facts of life.\u201d"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 344, "fields": {"book": 502, "page": 248, "location": "[3800, 3801]", "date_added": "2015-08-18T03:17:46", "body_markdown": "the fulfillment of the American Dream means inevitably the death of the noble savagery and freedom of the wild.\u201d"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 345, "fields": {"book": 502, "page": 271, "location": "[4156, 4158]", "date_added": "2015-08-19T01:52:58", "body_markdown": "We are also hungry, Abbey reminds us, for wilderness. Wilderness is our first home, the laboratory where human beings were created, where the human genome was hammered out over millennia, and that essence does not suddenly change in a hundred years because someone invented a car or computer. Our needs are still the same."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 346, "fields": {"book": 503, "page": 7, "location": "[95, 105]", "date_added": "2015-08-19T02:18:36", "body_markdown": "Thales is credited with the theory that everything is \u2018really\u2019 water. What does such an assertion mean? Why should it ever have occurred to anyone to say that everything was \u2018really\u2019 water? On the face of it, the theory is a statement about the physical world as conceived by the Greeks of the sixth century B.C.: it means that, of the four \u2018elements\u2019, three are forms of the fourth: earth is solidified water, air rarefied water, fire (aether, the hot sky of the eastern Mediterranean) rarefied air or twicerarefied water. But merely in these physical terms the statement is inexplicable: for not only does it contradict the evidence of the five senses, it also seems to lack any necessity. Why should earth not be earth, air air and fire fire, as they seem to be? Now the inexplicability is in the idiom; the novelty is the language of physics, and in order to see what is meant we have to translate it back into its original language, that of metaphysics. Translated into the language of metaphysics, \u2018Everything is really water\u2019 reads: The world we perceive is characterized by great diversity, but this diversity is not fundamental; fundamentally the world is a unity. But notice that this unity is precisely what is not apparent; what is apparent is the reverse, the diversity of the world, and the object of the hypothesis is to assert the apparitional nature of this diversity."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 347, "fields": {"book": 504, "page": 16, "location": "[237, 238]", "date_added": "2015-08-24T02:38:25", "body_markdown": "The first step to knowledge is the confession of ignorance."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 348, "fields": {"book": 504, "page": 35, "location": "[535, 539]", "date_added": "2015-08-25T01:56:31", "body_markdown": "For systems between the small and large number extremes, there is an essential failure of the two classical methods. On the one hand, the Square Law of Computation says that we cannot solve medium number systems by analysis, while on the other hand, the Square Root of N Law warns us not to expect too much from averages. By combining these two laws, then, we get a third: the Law of Medium Numbers: For medium number systems, we can expect that large fluctuations, irregularities, and discrepancy with any theory will occur more or less regularly."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 349, "fields": {"book": 505, "page": 70, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-10-15T21:17:14", "body_markdown": "my library had only three choices: a pamphlet on Hawaiian birds, a series of oceanographic articles, and a paperback of the lyric poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. It was too dark for bird watching, I was too wary to concentrate on science, and too emotionally vulnerable for Millay.\r\n\r\nWhat I really needed was a super anthology for seagoing back-packers that would include include philosophy, humor, travel, fishing, and hiker\u2019s gourmet cooking, with Hawaiian history, fish, animal and plant information. That would mean collaboration by Bertrand Russell, Farley Mowat, Sheila Bumford, Ballard Hadman, and Trixie Ichinose, plus Gavan Daws, Vernon Brock, Alan Ziegler and Heather Fortner all in one book -- a four-ounce waterproof paperback, dehydrated."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 350, "fields": {"book": 505, "page": 85, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-10-15T21:17:50", "body_markdown": "I had to go back again. To be that terrified of anything, that incompetent, survive by that small a margin -- I\u2019d better analyze, practice, then return and do it right.\r\n\r\nI was, at work now, sitting at the desk in my'skirt and stockings and heels. The wounds were healing and the bruises fading. What did I learn? The gear would have to be tested and tried in all combinations before any more trips. A boat was not yet my element the way the water was. I had missed seeing the life of the underwater world. Fear was more a barrier than the problem feared.\r\n\r\nBefore 1962 I hadn't known enough to be frightened of this coast. In five years the three trips had taught me how difficult it could be, **but I still wanted to go back. It wasn't because of the \u201cchallenge.\u201d I didn\u2019t feel daring and I didn\u2019t think my character needed to be improved by conquering something, but now I knew the magnificence of\r\nthe place, strong and fulfilling. Was there some masochistic satisfaction in the beatings I had taken? I thought not. It was simply that the tender power of Moloka\u2018i was a far more vivid and compelling memory than the physical pain**.\r\n\r\nAt home, asleep at night on the wide bed by the fireplace, I would waken from a nightmare of being jobless and alone in some mainland city, trying desperately to get back to Hawai\u2018i and the children. Reassured by the moonlit wooden beams overhead, the deep authority of the winter surf sounds outside, and the softly burning coals of the fire, I would think of Moloka\u2018i, how it would be in that light and with that surf. I would pad down the hall. The children breathed quietly and safely in their rooms. Some new idea of rigging or gear or timing for the next voyage would come to mind before I drifted back to sleep.\r\n\r\n(emphasis mine)\r\n"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 351, "fields": {"book": 505, "page": 122, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-10-15T21:18:52", "body_markdown": "How rare and lovely to wake up only when my mind and body are ready. No sudden sound awakens me, no traffic or alarm clock or people, only the end of sleep. The cool sea air comes in the open window, the birds sing, the waves slosh across the ledges and the clouds float over the\r\npeaks. Light rain drips off the eaves. The down sleeping bag is so light and warm\u2014\u00ablike sleeping in a cheese souffle. I smile and stretch, and finish reading the last book, Charles Seib\u2019s, The Woods.\r\n\r\nI\u2019m a reader, not a writer; a looker, not the creative artist, but how I do appreciate those good ones. There are books that belong here, so that their creators can be here vicariously to enjoy this place. Do writers ever feel the places that their books are? Do the words transmit the understanding and the enjoyment of the reader back to the\r\nauthor? What books should be here in the cupboard, what pictures on the wall? I shall bring Hayakawa, Robert Capon, Torn Neale, and John Graves with me next time.\r\n"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 352, "fields": {"book": 505, "page": 130, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-10-15T21:19:48", "body_markdown": "There are many alternatives I've found. No one system is the ultimate answer. If one route is blocked off there is another way to go. I've learned to live without things and alone. The ability to live in a variety of styles, city or country, with people or without, in different languages and cultures, with enthusiasm for the small luxuries, gives me power over the future, whatever chaos the world comes to.\r\n\r\nThere is a sensuous joy in being alone -- delight in the simple animal pleasure of blowing my nose with one knuckle, peeing in the moonlight, and trying a Tahitian dance step with only myself to snicker. There is a smug ironic satisfaction in finding an ingenious solution to a problem which was caused by my own inadequacy or stupidity.\r\n\r\nMen and women are more alike than different. Women too need to feel the coyote wildness, the pleasure of muscles moving in coordination, the sweat and the weariness, and the uncertainty of what the end to that effort will be.\r\n\r\nThe pretrip physical conditioning, or the constant maintenance of it, must improve each year to offset the aging process. When I was forty-one I could get by on youthful vigor. When I am seventy-one I shall have to be able to do seventy-one pushups. Vive moi, viva me.\r\n\r\nAlways I come back from these trips feeling like a skinned-up kid, feeling like a renewed, recreated adult, feeling like a tiger. All that basic nature, all that use of animal instincts, arouses some very earthy desires. The most delicious comment about these trips was by a sailor-oceanographer who understood the sea both mentally and physically. \u201cA woman who would do a thing like that,\u201d he said, \u201cis worth going to bed with.\u201d A classic remark\u2014\u2014but it said more about him than about me. "}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 353, "fields": {"book": 505, "page": 132, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-10-15T21:20:50", "body_markdown": "And why did I always come alone to Moloka'i? I know why, but the telling is hard. Daily we are on trial, to do a job, to make a marriage good, to find depth, serenity, and meaning in the complex, deteriorating world of politics, false values, and trivia. But rarely are we deeply challenged physically or alone. We rely on friends, on family, on a committee, on community agencies outside ourselves. To have actual survival, living or dying, depend on our own ingenuity, skill, or stamina -- this is a core question we seldom face. We rarely find out if we like having only our own mind as company for days or weeks at a time. How many people have ever been totally isolated, ten miles from the nearest other human, for even two days?\r\n\r\nAlone, you are more aware of surroundings, wary as an animal to danger, limp and relaxed when the sun, the brown earth, or the deep grass say, \u201cRest now.\u201d Alone, you stand at night, alert, poised, hearing through ears and open mouth and fingertips. Alone, you do not worry whether someone else is tired or hungry or needing. You push yourself hard or quit for the day, reveling in the luxury of solitude. And being unconcerned with human needs, you become as a fish, a boulder, a tree -- a part of the world around you.\r\n\r\nI stood once in midstream, balanced on a rock. A scarlet leaf fluttered, spiraled down. I watched it, became a windblown leaf, swayed, fell into the water with a giant human splash, then soddenly crawled out, laughing uproariously.\r\n\r\n**The process of daily living is often intense and whimsical. The joy of it, and the compassion, we can share, but in pain we are ultimately alone. The only real antidote is inside. The only real security is not insurance or money or a job, not a house and furniture paid for, or a retirement fund, and never is it another person. It is the skill and\r\nhumor and courage within, the ability to build your own fires and find your own peace.**\r\n\r\nOn a solo trip you may discover these, or try to build them, and life becomes simple and deeply satisfying- The confidence and strength remain and are brought back an applied to the rest of your life.\r\n\r\n(emphasis mine)\r\n"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 354, "fields": {"book": 506, "page": 23, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-10-19T09:52:50", "body_markdown": "He paused. \"I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.\" \r\n\r\n*(Said by the character Owen, the archaeologist, talking about going home versus going on to India.)*"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 355, "fields": {"book": 506, "page": 77, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-10-19T09:53:53", "body_markdown": "\"Have you ever written?\" she said.\r\n\r\n\"Never. I used to think it would be grand to be a poet. I was very young, this was long ago, I'm sure I thought a poet was a delicate pale fellow with a low-grade fever.\" "}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 356, "fields": {"book": 506, "page": 43, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-10-19T09:54:06", "body_markdown": "My life was full of routine surprises. One day I was watching runners from Marathon dodge taxis near the Athens Hilton, the next I was turning a corner in Istanbul to see a gypsy leading a bear on a leash. I began to think of myself as a perennial tourist. There was something agreeable about this. To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity. You're expected to be stupid. The entire mechanism of the host country is geared to travelers acting stupidly. You walk around dazed, squinting into fold-out maps. You don't know how to talk to people, how to get anywhere, what the money means, what time it is, what to eat or how to eat it. Being stupid is the pattern, the level and the norm. You can exist on this level for weeks and months without reprimand or dire consequence. Together with thousands, you are granted immunities and broad freedoms. You are an army of fools, wearing bright polyesters, riding camels, taking pictures of each other, haggard, dysenteric, thirsty. There is nothing to think about but the next shapeless event."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 357, "fields": {"book": 506, "page": 105, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-10-19T09:55:10", "body_markdown": "People were always giving her shirts. Their own in most cases. She looked good in everything; everything fit. If a shirt was too loose, too big, the context would widen with the material and this became the point, this was the fit. The shirt would sag fetchingly, showing the girl, the sunny tomboy buried in hand-me-down gear. She used to snatch things off hangers in Yonge Street basements, the kind of shapeless stuff men wore north. These were stores with hunting knives in faded scabbards in the window, huge khaki anoraks with fur-lined hoods, and she'd grab a pair of twelve-dollar corduroys that became immediately hers,setting off her litheness, the close-skinned physical sense she ex-pressed even sprawled across an armchair, reading. Her body had efficient lines that took odd clothing best, the weathered, the shrunken, the dull. People were pleased to see her in their work-shirts, old sweaters. She was not a friend who asked many favors or required of others a steadfastly sympathetic nature. They were flattered, really, when she took a shirt. "}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 358, "fields": {"book": 506, "page": 114, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-10-19T09:55:40", "body_markdown": "\"New ways to think about death. All the banking and technology and oil money create an uneasy flow through the region, a complex set of dependencies and fears. Everyone is there, of course. Not just Americans. They're all there. But the others lack a certain mythical quality that terrorists find attractive.\"\"Good, keep going.\"\"America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local disaster. This is our function, to be character types, to embody recurring themes that people can use to comfort them-selves, justify themselves and so on. We're here to accommodate.Whatever people need, we provide. A myth is a useful thing.People expect us to absorb the impact of their grievances. Interesting, when I talk to a Mideastern businessman who expresses affection and respect for the U.S., I automatically assume he's either a fool or a liar. The sense of grievance affects all of us, one way or another.\"\r\n\r\n\"What percentage of these grievances is justified?\"\r\n\r\nI pretended to calculate."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 359, "fields": {"book": 506, "page": 254, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-10-19T09:56:05", "body_markdown": "Air travel reminds us who we are. It's the means by which we recognize ourselves as modern. The process removes us from the world and sets us apart from each other. We wander in the ambient noise, checking one more time for the flight coupon, the boarding pass, the visa. The process convinces us that at any moment we may have to submit to the force that is implied in all this, the unknown authority behind it, behind the categories, the languages we don't understand. \r\n\r\nThis vast terminal has been erected to examine souls.It is not surprising, therefore, to see men with submachineguns, to see vultures squatting on the baggage vehicles set at the end of the tarmac in the airport in Bombay when one arrives after a night flight from Athens. \r\n\r\nAll of this we choose to forget. We devise a counter-system of elaborate forgetfulness. We agree on this together. And out in the street we see how easy it is, once we're immersed in the thick crowded paint of things, the bright clothes and massed brown faces. But the experience is no less deep because we've agreed to forget it.\r\n"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 360, "fields": {"book": 506, "page": 278, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-10-19T09:56:24", "body_markdown": "The cows had painted horns. Blue horns in one part of the countryside, red or yellow or green in another. People who painted cows horns had something to say to him, Owen felt.There were cows with tricolor horns. There was a woman in a magenta sari who carried a brass water pot on her head, the garment and the container being the precise colors of the mingled bougainvillea that covered the wall behind her, the dark reddish purple, the tainted gold. He would reflect. These moments werea \"control\"\u2014a design at the edge of the human surge. The white-clad men with black umbrellas, the women at the river beating clothes in accidental rhythms, hillsides of saris drying in the sun.The epic material had to refine itself in these delicate aquarelles. Or he needed to see it as such. The mind's little infinite. India made him feel like a child. He was a child again, maneuvering fora window seat on the crowded bus. A dead camel, stiff legs jutting. Women in a road crew wearing wide cotton skim, nose rings, hair ornaments, heavy jewelry dangling from their ears,repairing broken asphalt by hand, horn ok please. In the upper castes they calculated horoscopes precisely. "}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 361, "fields": {"book": 506, "page": 281, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-10-19T09:56:42", "body_markdown": "Owen smiled again, thinking how in the midst of this wandering among Jains, Muslims, Sikhs, the Buddhist students in Sarnath, stunned time and again by the fairytale dynamics of Hindu cosmology, he had begun to think of himself once more as a Christian, simply by way of fundamental identification, by way of linking himself to the everyday medley he found around him. When people asked, this is what he said. Christian. How strange it sounded.And how curiously strong a word it seemed, after all these years,to be applied to himself, full of doleful comfort."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 362, "fields": {"book": 506, "page": 323, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-10-19T09:57:35", "body_markdown": "\"How big the world is. They keep telling us it's getting smaller all the time, but it's not, is it? Whatever we do to complicate things makes it bigger. It's all a complication. It's one big tangled thing.\" She began to laugh. \"Modern communications don't shrink the world, the make it bigger. Faster planes make it bigger. They give us more, the connect us to more things. The world isn't shrinking at all. People who say the world is shrinking have never flown Air Zaire in a tropical storm.: I didn't know what she meant by this but it sounded funny. It sounded funny to her too. She had to talk through her laughter. \"No wonder people got to school to learn stretching and bending. The world is so big and complicated we don't trust ourselves to figure out anything on our own. No wonder people read books on that tell them how to run, walk and sit. We're trying to keep up with the world, the size of it, the complications."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 363, "fields": {"book": 507, "page": 2, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-10-19T10:08:39", "body_markdown": "The portentous development of our present economic system, leading to a mighty accumulation of social wealth in the hands of privileged minorities and to a continuous impoverishment of the great masses of the people, prepared the way for the present political and social reaction, and befriended it in every way. It sacrificed the general interests of human society to the private interests of individuals, and thus systematically undermined the relationship between man and man. People forgot that industry is not an end in itself, but should be only a means to insure to man his material subsistence and to make accessible to him the blessings of a higher intellectual culture. Where industry is everything and man is nothing begins the realm of a ruthless economic despotism whose workings are no less disastrous than those of any political despotism. The two mutually augment one another, and they are fed from the same source.\r\n"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 364, "fields": {"book": 507, "page": 7, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-10-19T10:11:45", "body_markdown": "Anarchism found a valuable advocate in Peter Kropotkin, who set himself the task of making the achievements of modern natural science available for the development of the sociological concepts of Anarchism. In his ingenious book, *Mutual Aid\u2014A Factor of Evolution*, he entered the lists against so-called *Social Darwinism* whose exponents tried to prove the inevitability of the existing social conditions from the Darwinian theory of the struggle for existence by raising the struggle of the strong against the weak to the status of an iron law for all natural processes, to which even man is subject. In reality this conception was strongly influenced by the Malthusian doctrine that life's table is not spread for all and that the unneeded will just have to reconcile themselves to this fact.\r\n\r\n**Kropotkin showed that this conception of nature as a field of unrestricted warfare is only a caricature of real life, and that along with the brutal struggle for existence, which is fought out with tooth and claw; there exists in nature also another principle which is expressed in the social combination of the weaker species and the maintenance of races by the evolution of social instincts and mutual aid.** (*emphasis mine -- always shocking how long we've known the science behind the 'only the strong' bullshit is in fact bullshit.*)"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 365, "fields": {"book": 507, "page": 16, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-10-19T10:12:05", "body_markdown": "Anarchism recognises only the relative significance of ideas, institutions, and social forms. It is, therefore, not a fixed, self-enclosed social system, but rather a definite trend in the historic development of mankind, which, in contrast with the intellectual guardianship of all clerical and governmental institutions, strives for the free unhindered unfolding of the individual and social forces in life. Even freedom is only a relative, not an absolute concept, since it tends constantly to become broader and to affect wider circles in more manifold ways. For the anarchist freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility fo every himan being to bring to full development all the powers, capacities and talents with which nature has endowed him, and turn then to social account. The less this natural development of man is influenced by ecclesiastical or political guardianship, the mere effective and harmonious will human personality become, the more will it become the measure of the intellectual culture of the society in which it has grown."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 366, "fields": {"book": 507, "page": 17, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-10-19T10:12:28", "body_markdown": "\"No one can finally spend more than he has. That holds good for individuals; it holds good for peoples. If one spends oneself for power, for high politics, for husbandry, for commerce, parliamentarism, military interests -- if one gives away that amount of reason, earnestness, will, self-mastery, which constitutes one's real self for one thing, he will not have it for the other. Culture and state -- let no one be deceived about this -- are antagonists: the 'Culture State' is merely a modern idea. The one lives on the other, the one prospers at the expense of the other. All great periods of culture are periods of political decline. Whatever is great in a cultured sense is non-political, is even anti-political.\" -- Nietzsche (*source not given in the text, which is a shame because this might be the most precise articulation of anarchism -- at least my reasons for it -- I've ever read.*)"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 367, "fields": {"book": 508, "page": 6, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-10-19T10:56:25", "body_markdown": "This creates an odd consonance between internal and external passage,one that suggests that the mind is also a landscape of sorts and.that walking is one way to traverse it. A new thought often seems like a feature of the landscape that was there all along, as though thinking were traveling rather than making. And so one aspect of the history of walking is the history of thinking made concrete -- for the motions of the mind cannot be traced, but those of the feet can. Walking can also be imagined as a visual activity, every walk a tour leisurely enough both to see and to think over the sights, to assimilate the new into the known. Perhaps this is where walking's peculiar utility for thinkers comes from. The surprises, liberations, and clarifications of travel can sometimes be garnered by going around the block as well as going around the world, and walking travels both near and far. Or perhaps walking should be called movement, not travel, for one can walk in circles or travel around the world immobilized in a seat and a certain kind of wanderlust can only be assuaged by the acts of the body itself in motion, not the motion of the car, boat, or plane. It is the movement as well as the sights going by that seems to make things happen in the mind and what makes walking ambiguous and endlessly fertile: it is both means and end, travel and destination"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 368, "fields": {"book": 508, "page": 9, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-10-19T10:57:04", "body_markdown": "Although I came to think about walking, I couldn't stop thinking about everything else, about the letters I should have been writing, about the conversations I'd been having. At least when my mind strayed to the phone conversation with my friend Sono that morning, I was still on track. Sono's truck had been stolen from her West Oakland studio, and she told me that though everyone responded to it as a disaster, she wasn't all that sorry it was gone, or in a hurry to replace it. There was a joy, she said, to finding that her body was adequate to get her Where she was going, and it was a gift to develop a more tangible, Concrete relationship to her neighborhood and its residents. We talked about the more stately sense of time one has afoot and on public transit, where things must be planned and scheduled beforehand, rather than rushed through at the last minute, and about the sense of place that can only be gained on foot. Many people nowadays live in a series of interiors -- home, car, gym, office, shops -- disconnected from each other. On foot everything stays connected, for while walking one occupies the spaces between those interiors in the same way one occupies those interiors. One lives in the while world rather than in interiors built up against it."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 369, "fields": {"book": 508, "page": 32, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-10-19T11:01:11", "body_markdown": "Four-legged animals are as stable as a table when all four feet are on the ground, but humans are already precariously balanced on two be-fore they begin to move. Even standing still is a feat of balance, as anyone who has watched or been a drunk knows.\r\n"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 370, "fields": {"book": 508, "page": 33, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-10-19T11:01:33", "body_markdown": "Reading the accounts of human walking, it is easy to begin to think of the Fall in terms of the falls, the innumerable spills, possible for a suddenly upright creature that must balance all its shifting weight on a single foot as it moves:, John 2Napier, in an essay on the ancient origins of walking, wrote, \"Human walking is a unique activity during which the body, step by step, teeters on the edge of catastrophe... Man's bipedal mode of walking seems potentially catastrophic because only the rhythmic forward movement of first one leg and then the other keeps him from falling flat on his face.\" This is easiest to see in small children for whom the many aspects that will later unite seamlessly into walking are still distinct and awkward. They learn to walk by flirting with falling\u2014they lean forward with their body and then rush to keep their legs under that body. Their plump bowed legs always seem to be lagging behind or catching up, and they often tumble into frustration before they master the art. Children begin to walk to chase desires no one will fulfill for them: the desire for that which is out of reach,for freedom, for independence from the secure confines of the maternal Eden. And so walking begins as delayed falling, and the fall meets with the Fall. Genesis may seem out of place in a discussion of science, but it is often the scientists who have dragged it in with them, unwittingly or otherwise. The scientific stories are as much an attempt to account for who we are as any creation myth and some of them seem to hark back to the central creation myth of Western culture, that business of Adam and Eve in the Garden."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 371, "fields": {"book": 508, "page": 50, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-10-19T11:01:54", "body_markdown": "There is a symbiosis between journey and arrival in Christian pilgrimage as there is in mountaineering. To travel without arriving would be as incomplete as to arrive without having traveled. To walk there is to earn it, through laboriousness and through the transformation that comes during a journey. Pilgrimages make it possible to move physically, through the exertions of one's body, step by step, toward those intangible spiritual goals that are otherwise so hard to grasp. We are eternally perplexed by how to move toward forgiveness or healing or truth, but we know how to walk from here to there, however arduous the journey. Too, we tend to imagine life as a journey, and going on an actual expedition takes hold of that image and makes it concrete, acts it out with the imagination in a world whose geography has become spiritualized. The walker toiling along a road toward some distant place is one of the most compelling universal images of what it means to be human, depicting the individual as small and solitary in a large world, reliant on the strength of body and will."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 372, "fields": {"book": 508, "page": 70, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-10-19T11:02:14", "body_markdown": "the children's books that I loved best were full of characters falling into books and pictures that became real, wandering through gardens where the statues came to life and, most famously, crossing over to the other side of the mirror, where chess pieces, flowers, and animals all were alive and temperamental. These books suggested that the boundaries between the real and the represented were not particularly fixed, and magic happened when one crossed over. \r\n"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 373, "fields": {"book": 508, "page": 134, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-10-19T11:02:35", "body_markdown": "Climbing is about climbing. Mountaineering, on the other hand, is still amount mountains"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 374, "fields": {"book": 508, "page": 135, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-10-19T11:03:01", "body_markdown": "as the great surveyor and mountaineer Clarence King recounts, when in 1871 he got to the top of Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous forty-eight states, he found that \"a small mound of rock was piled on the peak, and solidly built into it an arrow-shaft, pointing due west.\" Mountains attracted attention and long before romanticism spawned mountaineering."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 375, "fields": {"book": 508, "page": 135, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-10-19T11:03:28", "body_markdown": "Though Europeans led to world in the development of modern mountaineering, that mountaineering came out of romanticism's recovery of an appreciation for natural places that much of the rest of the world had never lost.\r\n\r\n[*notes: of course it did, only white people are so fucked up as to believe that mountains would \"high and hideous\", \"rubbish of the earth\" and so on. The rest of the world wasn't so stupid.*]"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 376, "fields": {"book": 508, "page": 144, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-10-19T11:05:04", "body_markdown": "the mountains so frequently portrayed in Chinese poetry and paintings were a contemplative retreat from politics and society. In China, wandering was celebrated -- **\"To 'wander' is the Taoist code word for becoming ecstatic,\"** writes a scholar -- but arriving was sometimes regarded with ambiguity. One of the eighth-century poet Li Po's compositions is titled \"On Visiting a Taoist Master in the Tai-T'ien Mountains and Not Finding Him,\" a common theme in Chinese poetry then. (*emphasis mine. wish there was a citation for that scholar)"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 377, "fields": {"book": 509, "page": 109, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-10-19T11:18:48", "body_markdown": "I believe an appreciation for simplicity, the everyday\u2014the ability to dive deeply into the banal and discover life's hidden richness\u2014is where success, let alone happiness, emerges."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 378, "fields": {"book": 509, "page": 238, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-10-19T11:19:16", "body_markdown": "The key was to roll with the evolving situation and contour new tactics around the principles we had discovered back home. When hit with such surprises, if you have a solid foundation, you should be fine. **Tactics come easy once principles are in the blood**. (*emphasis mine*)"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 379, "fields": {"book": 510, "page": 35, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-10-23T20:34:28", "body_markdown": "The mosses begin their time of waiting. It may be only a matter of days before the dew returns, or it may be months of patient desiccation\r\n\r\nAcceptance is their way of being. They earn their freedom from the pain of change by total surrender to the ways of rain"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 380, "fields": {"book": 510, "page": 55, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-10-23T20:42:16", "body_markdown": "A Berlese funnel is the tool typically used to study the nearly invisible fauna of microcommunities such as moss. Soil, rotting wood, or a clump of moss is put into a large aluminum funnel, fitted with a screen....\r\n\r\nThe collection from a Berlese funnel might typically produce the following results. One gram of moss from the forest floor, a piece about the size of a muffin, would harbor 150,000 protozoa, 132,000 tardigrades, 3,000 springtails, 800 rotifers, 500 nematodes, 400 mites, and 200 fly larvae. These numbers tell us something about the astounding quantity of life in a handful of moss.\r\n\r\nBut the numbers themselves miss the point. Such lists remind me of the inconsequential facts tossed off by a tour guide, the number of steps to the top of the Washington monument or the number of granite blocks used to construct it, when what I really want to know about is the view from the top or jokes told by the stonemasons. Berlese funnels yield a good inventory of biota I suppose, but I'd rather go walking though a moss clump and see the thousands of creatures living out their lives than count their bodies in a jar.\r\n"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 381, "fields": {"book": 510, "page": 60, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-10-23T20:53:48", "body_markdown": "All three -- mosses, waterbears and rotifers -- figured prominently in a nineteenth-century debate about revivification and the very nature of life. The behavior of these three blurs the distinction at the edge between life and death. All signs of life are extinguished when they are dry: no movement, not gas exchange, no metabolism. All enter a state known as anabiosis, or lack of life. And yet, as soon as water is returned life suddenly is renewed. Their apparent death, followed by resuscitation, suggested that life might be stopped and then re-started. Waterbears were the subject of intense experimentation to test the limits of their endurance. In the dry state, they were subjected to conditions that would kill any known organism: building, being held in a vacuum only 0.008 degrees above absolute zero. But, without fail, they tolerated these abuses and were revivified with a drop of water. The addition of water unlocks the chemistry of life by a mechanism that is still largely unknown, but utilized by mosses and waterbears everyday.\r\n\r\nAfter 350 years of lively debate and experimentation, it is generally agreed that life does not cease in anabiotic organisms but continues at a barely perceptible rate. Sophisticated technologies are requires to documents the infinitesimal rate of metabolism, which permits life to be suspended indefinitely.\r\n"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 382, "fields": {"book": 510, "page": 74, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-10-23T20:39:29", "body_markdown": "The rocky coast and the Kickapoo cliffs helped to generate what has become known as the Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis, that diversity of species is highest when disturbance occurs at an interval between the extremes. Ecologists have shown that in the complete absence of disturbance, superior competitors like Conoceploalum can slowly encroach upon other species and eliminate them by competitive dominance. Where disturbance is very frequent, only the very hardiest species can survive the tumult. But in between, at intermediate frequency, there seems to be a balance that permits a great variety of species to flourish. Disturbance is just frequent enough to prevent competitive dominance and yet stable periods are long enough for successional species to become established. Diversity is maximized when there are many kinds of patches of all different ages.\r\n\r\nThe Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis has been verified in a host of other ecosystems: prairies, rivers, coral reefs, and forests. \r\n"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 383, "fields": {"book": 510, "page": 76, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-10-23T20:47:05", "body_markdown": "In traditional indigenous communities, learning takes a form very different from that in the American public education system. Children learn by watching, by listening, and by experience. They are expected to learn from all members of the community, human and non. To ask a direct question is often considered rude. Knowledge cannot be taken; it must instead be given. Knowledge is bestowed by a teacher only when a student is ready to receive it. \r\n\r\nMuch learning takes place by patient observation, discerning pattern and its meaning by experience. It is understood that there are many versions of truth, and that each reality may be true for each teller. It's important to understand the perspective of each source of knowledge. The scientific method I was taught in school is like asking a direct question, disrespectfully demanding knowledge rather than waiting for it to be revealed. \r\n"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 384, "fields": {"book": 510, "page": 78, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-10-23T20:49:15", "body_markdown": "The Chinese character for catastrophe is the same as that which represents the word opportunity."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 385, "fields": {"book": 510, "page": 80, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-10-23T20:54:46", "body_markdown": "The ethics seem inverted. A mossy roof has come to mean that the homeowner is somehow negligent in his/her responsibilities for maintenance. Shouldn't the moral high ground belong to the folks who've found a way living with natural processes rather battling them? I think we need a new aesthetic that honors a mossy roof as a status symbol of how responsibly the homeowner behaves in maintaining the ecosystem. The greener the better. Neighbors would look askance at the owner of a roof scraped bare of friendly moss.\r\n"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 386, "fields": {"book": 510, "page": 99, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-10-23T21:00:16", "body_markdown": "In indigenous ways of knowing, it is understood that each living being has a particular role to play. Every being is endowed with certain gifts, its own intelligence, its own spirit, its own story. Our stories tell us that the Creator gave these to us, as original instructions. The foundation of education is to discover that gift within us and learn to use it well.\r\n\r\nThese gifts are also responsibilities, a way of caring for each other. Wood Thrush received the gift of song, it's his responsibility to say the evening prayer. Maple received the gift of sweet sap and the coupled responsibility to share that gift in feeding the people at a hungry time of year. "}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 387, "fields": {"book": 510, "page": 101, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-10-23T21:00:31", "body_markdown": "If each plant has a particular role and is interconnected with the lives of humans, how do we come to know what that role is? How do we use the plant in accordance with its gifts? The legacy of traditional ecological knowledge, the intellectual twin to science, has been handed down in the oral tradition for countless generations. It passes from grandmother to granddaughter gathering together in the meadow, from Uncle to nephew fishing on the riverbank, and next year to the students in Big Bear's school. But, where did it first come from? How did they know which plant to use in childbirth, which plant to conceal the scent of a hunter? Like scientific information, traditional knowledge arises from careful systematic observation of nature, from the results of innumerable lived experiments. Traditional knowledge is rooted in intimacy with a local landscape where the land itself is the teacher.\r\n"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 388, "fields": {"book": 510, "page": 121, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-10-23T21:15:56", "body_markdown": "The jet stream flows through the atmosphere like a muddy river. It cuts from one shore and deposits on the other, homogenizing its load of sediment. Swept along in the current are airborne seeds and spores, keeping company with vagrant spiders. Every continent is awash in the same aerial plankton. The wonder is not that the earth should be so richly populated, but that it is not everywhere the same. Somehow, each wandering spore finds its way home."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 389, "fields": {"book": 510, "page": 139, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-10-23T21:18:34", "body_markdown": "I am trying to understand what it means to own a thing, especially a wild and living being. To have exclusive rights to its fate? To dispose of it at will? To deny others its use? Ownership seems a uniquely human behavior, a social contract validating the desire for purposeless possession and control.\r\n\r\nTo destroy a wild thing for pride seems a potent act of domination. Wildness cannot be collected and still remain wild. Its nature is lost the moment it is separated from its origins. **By the very act of owning, the thing becomes an object, no longer itself.**\r\n\r\n(emphasis mine)\r\n\r\n"}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 390, "fields": {"book": 510, "page": 150, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-10-23T21:21:36", "body_markdown": "The patterns of reciprocity by which mosses bind together a forest community offer us a vision of what could be. They take only the little that they need and give back in abundance. Their presence supports the lives of rivers and clouds, trees, birds, algae, and salamanders, while ours puts them at risk. Human-designed systems are a far cry from this ongoing creation of ecosystem health, taking without giving back. Clear cuts may meet the short-term desires of one species, but at the sacrifice of the equally legitimate needs of mosses and murrelets, salmon and spruce. I hold tight to the vision that someday soon we will find the courage of self\u2014restraint, the humility to live like mosses. On that day, when we rise to give thanks to the forest, we may hear the echo in return, the forest giving thanks to the people."}}, {"model": "books.bookhighlight", "pk": 391, "fields": {"book": 510, "page": 162, "location": "", "date_added": "2015-11-20T21:23:59", "body_markdown": "And only by Virtue of the westerly winds steadily beating against the shore are there caves for Schistostega at all. Its life and ours exist only because of a myriad of synchronicities that bring us to this particular place at this particular moment. In return for such a gift, the only sane response is to glitter in reply."}}]