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In Defence of Wonder and Other Philosophical Reflections by Raymond Tallis

In Defence of Wonder and Other Philosophical Reflections by Raymond Tallis
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

"The Soup and the Scaffolding" - BRILLIANT






I've been reading (and rereading) this, on and off, for a while now.  I found the book through a review on The Guardian website, which said, in part: 

"What unites the various aspects of Tallis's thinking is a profound reaction against reductionism. Whether he is writing on the "neuromania" that insists the brain is identical to the mind, or the nature of time, or skewering the improbabilities of Ian McEwan's Saturday, Tallis seems allergic to forms of thought that deny the fine-grained, paradoxical and profuse nature of reality." 

I couldn't have said it better.

NEW MURAKAMI!!!!

Ok, he didn't with the Nobel...AGAIN...but he has a new book out and it's almost 1000 pages!
 

Happy Birthday Borges

Jorge Luis Borges, one of my favorite writers, would have been 100 today. Thanks to Google for the reminder, and taking me to all kinds of geeky related fun!

Summer Reading

For years Francis Ford Coppola has published Zoetrope: All-Story. Comes out about four times a year and each issue has a guest designer. This summer the guest designer is PJ Harvey.



It comes highly recommended. In the past I’ve collected the issues designed by Lou Reed and David Bowie



Novel wise I’ve been enthralled by The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson.




Word is David Fincher is going to stage the film version soon. All I needed to know to get me reading. I’ve yet to be disappointed. Highly recommended!

When I see that finished I’m going to climb Everest in the form of War and Peace.



I’ve been challenged and I see it best to try and not climb such heights alone. Let’s see if I can finally make the summit. Past attempts have been met with failure. This does not deter me.